JUST VIEWS
- The
DuPage IL Chronology--Engaging
& Educational
Viewings and Views
Sharing--In
Naperville IL USA Monthly Every Second Friday at 7:20 pm
Films on National and
International Issues of Social Justice
Home viewings, reviewings and discussions with
family and friends also are encouraged!
Sponsored
by the
DuPage Peace through Justice Coalition (DPTJC)
P.O. Box 494,
Winfield IL 60190 (http://www.DuPagePeaceThroughJustice.org)
and
Hosted by the
DuPage Unitarian Church Peace through Justice (DUUC-PTJ) Group at
Location of Program: 4 S
535 Old Naperville Road, Naperville IL 60563
(Phone 630/505-9408)
To assist groups and individuals everywhere, this report is updated
periodically by Stephanie Hughes.
This is a compilation of topics and titles screened that usually but not
always have been publicized by title.
The "film" productions were all on video from 2002 through 10/2004.
Thereafter, many used have been on DVD.
The original Just Views in
Naperville IL showed productions on
TV sets before 1/06 and thereafter on wall screen.
Finding the Films:
Productions can purchased, rented, or borrowed from various organizations
and individuals near and far.
Locate them via public & school
libraries and internet by title or topic using
Google, other search engines and directories.
The program was founded and is being
administered and led by sociologist Stephanie Downs Hughes, Ph.D.
Director of Just Views, a member of
the DPTJC Coordinating Council and Leader of the DUUC-PTJ Group.
SDownsHughes@yahoo.com,
916 Royal Blackheath Ct, Naperville IL 60563-2304 630/420-4233
Inquiries, feedback and suggestions
are welcome any time. Phone SDH at 630/420-4233.
The program was founded and is being administered and led by sociologist
Stephanie Downs Hughes, Ph.D.
Director of Just Views, a member of the DPTJC Coordinating Council and
Leader of the DUUC-PTJ Group.
SDownsHughes@yahoo.com,
916 Royal Blackheath Ct, Naperville IL 60563-2304 630/420-4233
Inquiries, feedback and suggestions are welcome any time. Phone SDH at
630/420-4233.
Other professionals who have volunteered their services to bring Just Views
to
DuPage IL include
Technologists Allan Morgan, Mike Shirky, Mike Jarmula; Publicists Jill
Versace, Lillian Moates.
Many have provided productions, expert discussion input, and relevant
handouts from time to time including.
Martin McNamara, Stu Anderson, Kevin Lindemann, John Bagley, Geri Perry,
among others.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL -- Page 1
Year One-- 2002
Mar 1, 2002 Drama: Panama Deception. 1989 USA under HWBush attacked
Panama, ousting Noriega, with news media passive.
Apr 12, 2002 Presentation:
Noam Chomsky on The New
War on Terrorism in the context of US foreign policy over
decades.
May 11, 2002 Drama: Missing. Disappearance of
USA writer in
Chile after Pinochet’s fascist coup, with US complicity in
terror.
Jun 14, 2002 Documentary: The Good Fight. US Lincoln Brigade fighting
fascism in Spanish Civil War 1936-9
Jul 12, 2002 Drama: Romero. Archbishop of
San Salvador assassinated in 1980 attempting to promote human
rights for peasants.
Aug 9, 2002 Documentary:
Berkeley in the 60s. The anti-Vietnam war and civil rights
movements -- how they grew.
Sep 13, 2002 Drama: Salt of the Earth. Owner-Labor issues.
Wives of oppressed miners join in activism for workers’ rights.
Oct 11, 2002 Documentary: Hidden Wars of Desert Storm. The 1991
Persian Gulf War mounted by USA President GHW Bush.
Nov 8, 2002: Drama: The Grand Illusion. Anti-war classic. (In
French with subtitles. Hard to follow. ).
Dec 13, 2002 "Meet
Howard Zinn", video presentation by history scholar, author, and
end-the-wars advocate from
Vietnam on.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL -- Page 2
Codes (following date shown): A-on Attacks of 9/11/01, B- on Ballot
Integrity
Year Two -- 2003
Jan 10, 2003 Doc:
El Salvador. Complicated conflicts involving government,
church & paramilitary Vs peasants, workers & rebels.
Feb 14, 2003 Drama: Maria’s Story. Conflicts among government and
church, paramilitary, workers in
El Salvador.
Mar 14, 2003 Documentary: State of Siege. Conflicts between
government, paramilitary, workers in
Uruguay 1970s.
Apr 11, 03 A Satire: Between
Iraq and a Hard Place. British TV program on build up to USA/Bush
administration attack on
Iraq.
May 9, 20 A Documentary: The Long Road to War. History before
USA/Bush administration attack on
Iraq.
Jun 13, 2003 Drama: A World Apart. Long struggle against apartheid
in South Africa -- with positive progress.
Jul 11, 2003 Doc:
Hidden in Plain Sight. USA’s Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation/School of Assassins.
Aug 8, 2003 Animated Comedy: A Bug’s Life. Issues of coping with
differences, threats.
Sep 12, 2003 Documentary: Palestine 1890-1990. History of heartaches
for Palestine/Israel and conflicting rights of return.
Oct 10, 2003
Michael Moore’s
Bowling for Columbine: --how a culture of violence has
been bred & works in
USA society.
Nov 14, 03 A Great Deception: History of US govts’ hypes for war.
Aftermath: 11 unanswered questions on 9/11/01 investigations.
Dec 13, 2003 Documentary: Counting on Democracy. The 2000
Presidential Election stolen? 175,000 poor & blacks purged in
FL.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL
USA
Year Three -- 2004
Jan 9, 04 Documentary: Military Myths. How recruiting
information/offers do not jibe with reality for young people who serve.
Feb 13, 04 Work: Fast Food Women in USA. Child Behind the Label
in
Bangladesh,
Honduras. Outsourcing white collar work..
Mar 13, 04 Where We Stood-Chi War Resistors.
CA Seniors for Peace. Demonstrations/dissent in our democracy
& here in
Chicago.
Apr 9, 04 Zoned for Slavery. Sweatshops & strife in
Haiti. How global corporations use the weak & poor: Race to the
bottom.
May 14, 04 Brands Brainwashing. Liberal Media Myths. Mass
media, massive problems with corporate control and manipulation.
Jun11, 04 Breaking the Silence. Truth & Lies in the War on Terror
-- about the Afghanistan & Iraq wars. John Pilger.
Jul 9, 04 Pentagon Spending. Bloated, unaccounted, escalating war
costs. A Bill Moyers’ Now
PBS documentary.
Aug 13, 04 Arsenal of Hypocrisy-US Space Program & Military -Industrial
Complex. Missile programs Vs global disarmament.
Sep 10, 04
USA Secret Government within the
Pentagon and CIA.
Bill Moyers’ report on covert initiatives re Iran-Contra/Nicaragua
Oct 8, 04 B Vote Results Vulnerabilities. Author of Black Box
Voting exposes tampering made easier by new computer vote counting.
Oct 27, 04 Extra FilmFest: US Foreign Policy-War Against the Third World.
2 hrs continuous noon-midnight at
College of DuPage.
Nov 12, 04
Orwell Rolls in His Grave. Doublespeak by political elites via
media corporations controlled.
Dec 10, 04 Center of the Storm, UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan & Circles of Change--A Quiet Revolution in
Haiti.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed
in DuPage County, IL -- Page 3
Codes (following date shown): A-on Attacks of 9/11/01, B- on Ballot
Integrity
Year Four -- 2005
Jan 14, 05
Rwanda’s Lessons for US and the UN. PBS Frontline
documentary on 1994 genocide and its handling.
Feb 11, 05 1 of 3: Yugoslavia’s Lessons for US & UN. Conflicts among
Muslim Bosniacs, Orthodox Christian Serbs, and . . .
Mar 11, 05 2 of 3. The Avoidable War. and among Catholic Croats. What
are German &
USA CIA economic reform motives?
Apr 8, 05 3 of 3. More of The Avoidable War. What about
"humanitarian" bombings and US,
NATO & UN goals & roles?
May 13, 05 The Corporation I. Rise to dominance. Mid 1980s granted
personhood. Anti-social & controlling, few obligations.
Jun 10, 05 The Corporation II. Using power to exploit planetary &
human resources for profit of owner class. CN producers.
Jul 8, 05 B Votergate. Untrustworthy partisan-hired private venders
with secret, proprietary software are now tabulating the vote.
Aug 12, 05
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Political realities &
USA interventions in
Venezuela not reported shown here.
Sep 9, 05 Is WalMart Good for America? World’s largest retailer
dictates low payments to manufacturers & workers.
Oct 14, 05 Mission Against Terror. On right-wing Miamians & five
Cubans imprisoned in US for preventing terror attacks on
Cuba.
Nov 11, 05 Control Room. How media of the Western & Arab
worlds report news. Caught in the Crossfire unknown story of Fallujah.
Dec 9, 05 B Invisible Ballots. University investigators uncover new
HAVA-made opportunities for vote tabulation frauds around
USA.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL,
USA
Year Five -- 2006
Jan 13, 06 Poison DUst. Depleted Uranium in US
munitions causes chronic illness & birth defects for our/their military &
civilians.
Feb 10, 06 Government Secrecy.
Bill Moyers: When facts are withheld,
FOIA opens original documents that go into Nat’l Archives.
Mar 10, 06 The Question of Torture of US detainees at
Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghrabib. Doc for PBS Frontline by Michael Kirk.
Apr 14, 06 Meeting
Osama Bin Laden through interviews with people who know him from
childhood. Discussion replaced film.
May 12, 06
Life and Debt. Impacts of colonialism, economic globalization and
structural adjustment on developing countries.
Jun 9, 06 Money, Banking & the
Federal Reserve. Creation of the Fed. Roles making money, loans;
interest & discount rates.
Jul 14, 06 Am Dream: Mgt VS Labor at Hormel. Barb Koppel’s
Academy-Award doc on worker rights, union strategy, corp power.
Aug 11, 06 Genie in a Bottle Unleashed on
Hiroshima. Deadly Arrogance, the New Nuclear Nightmare on
complex of real dangers.
Sep 8, 06 A Loose Change. Questions about 9/11/01 that have not been
investigated, much less answered.
Oct 13 B 1)H.Wasserman: Did GWB Steel 2004 Election? 2) Fooled
Again. 3) Princeton shows how vote flipping hacks are easy.
Nov 10, 06 Secrets of the CIA. TBS TV doc with
FBI & CIA agent interviews--on secret US intelligence & intervention
operations.
Dec 8, 2006
Iraq for Sale--the War Profiteers. Robert Greenwald doc on gov’t
outsourcing of military support, interrogations, etc.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL -- Page 4
Codes (following date shown): A-on Attacks of 9/11/01, B- on Ballot
Integrity
Year Six -- 2007
Jan 12, 07
Searching for Peace in the
Middle East. Analysis & proposals for resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
www.fmep.org
Feb 8, 07 A Painful Deceptions concerning 9/11/01 attacks. Many
incongruous facts remain largely unknown and unexplored.
Mar 9, 07 On Labor treatment & pay: Short about Coalition of Immokalee
Workers of
FL tomato pickers &
Fast Food Nation.
Apr 13, 07 BBC, The Power of Nightmares-Part I-Cold War. Leaders &
media finding threats & fanning fears for control of public.
May 11, 07
FutureOfFood.com
examines multinational corporations’ influence on world foods system,
security & human safety.
Jun 8, 07 PBS Frontline: The Dark Side. Neocons tried using war on
Iraq to remake the
Middle East & assert US power worldwide.
Jul 13, 07 Why We Fight. In
Lebanon,
Laos,
Congo,
Brazil, Granada,
Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, wars for "freedom" have been fought for
corporate profits & US dominance. Yet US of Amnesia doesn’t ask "Why do they
hate us?" says producer Eugene Jareki.
Aug 10, 07 Oil, Smoke & Mirrors. Connections among rapidly
diminishing global oil, attacks of 9/11 and so-called "war on terror".
Sep 14, 07
PBS: Moyers on Impeachment features conservative & progressive
constitutional scholars discussing their reasons.
Oct 12, 07 Occupation 101. Israel-Palestine conflict--root causes and
contemporary realities. Discussion with folks in the diaspora.
Nov 9, 07
John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman--insider
describes historic CIA interventions in other countries.
Dec 14, 07 BBC, The Power of Nightmares-Part II-Phantom Victory.
Joining us to probe the politics of fear and what’s to be done
-- 3 of the 4 candidates for US House of Reps IL 13th District: D-Scott
Harper, G-Steve Alesch, R-Sean O’Kane.
JUST VIEWS
Sequence of Films Shown & Discussed in
DuPage County, IL,
USA
Year Seven - 2008
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