Thursday, October 4 at 1:30 p.m. and again on Monday, October 8th at 6:30 p.m.at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. (SE corner McKinley and Van Ness) The film “Reel Injun” will be shown. Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes a look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema. Traveling through the heartland of America, and into the Canadian North, Diamond looks at how the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s misunderstanding — of Natives.
Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today, with clips from hundreds of classic and recent Hollywood movies, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native film celebrities, activists, film critics, and historians.
Diamond meets with Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; Unforgiven) at his studios in Burbank, California, where the film legend discusses the evolution of the image of Indians in Westerns and what cowboy-and-Indian myths mean to America. Reel Injun also hears from legendary Native American activists John Trudell, Russell Means, and Sacheen Littlefeather.
Celebrities featured in Reel Injun include Robbie Robertson, the half-Jewish, half-Mohawk musician and soundtrack composer (Raging Bull, Casino, Gangs of New York); Cherokee actor Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo), filmmakers Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man) and Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals); and acclaimed Native actors Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves, Thunderheart) and Adam Beach (Smoke Signals, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers). Diamond also travels North to the remote Nunavut town of Igloolik (population: 1,500) to interview Zacharias Kunuk, director of the Caméra d’or-for The Fast Runner.
Diamond takes the audience on a journey across America to some of cinema’s most iconic landscapes the setting for Hollywood’s greatest Westerns, and the Black Hills of South Dakota, home to Crazy Horse and countless movie legends. It’s a loving look at cinema through the eyes of the people who appeared in its very first flickering images and have survived to tell their stories their own way.
This video is 1 hour and 30 minutes long, is wheelchair accessible and FREE. For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Saturday, October 6th from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the SE corner parking lot at McKinley and Olive, A fundraising Book Sale for the Center for Nonviolence will be held. We are still accepting gently used books, DVDs, CDs and books on tape (no textbooks or video cassettes). And we could still do with some help in sorting books from Monday, October 1 to Friday, October 5 from 11-3. Also on the day itself. Please call the Center at 559-237-3223 from 11-3 Mon-Fri for more information and, of course, if you can help!!
Wednesday, October 10th, FCNV monthly “Stir it, Up” radio show on KFCF 88.1 will be hosted by Josh Shirley and his guest will be Rory Fanning, a former US Army Ranger who became a conscientious objector after two deployments to Afghanistan. In 2008-2009, he walked across the United States in an effort to raise money and awareness for the Pat Tilman Foundation. They will be discussing the work of Veterans For Peace and other related activism generally, as well as ongoing efforts to reclaim Nov 11th as Armistice Day, a day to gather and commemorate the ending of wars. This is a call-in show so if you have questions call 559-266-8888.
Here is the link to our last show in September that was hosted by Josh Shurley with Connie Young of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Fresno as his guest. Recently returned from San Francisco for the Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice March, She was able to provide an eyewitness account as well as information about the event. It should be fun and interesting. The link is:http https://soundcloud.com/user-32180140/stritup091218
Saturday, October 20th from 12:30 to 2 p.m. A Women’s (and allies) Demonstration at Blackstone and Nees In response to the continuing march of military aggression by the USA and to put an antiwar agenda back on the table of activists there is to be a Women’s (and allies) March on the Pentagon, Peace Fresno will demonstrate at Blackstone and Nees in Fresno from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Our demands are simple: The complete end to the wars abroad; closure of foreign bases; dramatically slash the Pentagon budget to fund healthy social programs here at home: the only good empire is a gone empire.
