Here is our September calendar. We are showing the film “On the Beach” this month – Thursday, September 12th at 1:30 p.m. and Monday, September 16th at 6:30 p.m. Though dated, it is still a powerful film and as Helen Caldicott said upon seeing it – “It Frightened me to Death and still Frightens Me.” Please try and come to one of the showings.
Saturday, September 7th at 10 a.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave., Fresno, CA 93728 at 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Center for Nonviolence Board meeting. For more information call the Center Mon-Fri 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 559-237-3223.
Wednesday, September 11th on KFCF 88.1 from 3 to 3:30 p.m. our Center for Nonviolence ‘Stir It Up’ Radio show will be hosted by Joshua Shurley. Joshua has recently been to the annual Convention of Veterans for Peace in Spokane, Washington so his guests will be some local members who also attended it. This will be a call-in show so if you have any questions call 559-266-8888. For more information, you can call the Center for Nonviolence at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri from 11-3.
Thursday, September 12th at 1:30 p.m at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (SE corner McKinley and Van Ness). Showing of the film “On the Beach” from a book by Neville Shute. The director, Stanley Kramer, was well-known for releasing message films – like Judgment at Nuremburg. Of On the Beach he once wrote, “Its subject was as serious and compelling as any ever attempted in a motion picture—the very destruction of mankind and the entire planet.” Kramer died in 2001, but as the Iran nuclear agreement has been cancelled by the Trump administration and the 74th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings make headlines, renewing US-Russian nuclear tensions, his Eisenhower-era movie retains an unfortunate relevance.
The audience take-away. On the Beach, of course, stems from an era when nuclear weapons were primarily in the hands of two world superpowers. Today there seems to be powerful nuclear capability in virtually every global neighborhood. Which makes the message of this novel and this film all the more timely.
Monday, September 16th at 6:30 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness. (SE corner McKinley and Van Ness) Showing of the film “On the Beach” from a book by Neville Shute. The director, Stanley Kramer, was well-known for releasing message films – like Judgment at Nuremburg. Of On the Beach he once wrote, “Its subject was as serious and compelling as any ever attempted in a motion picture—the very destruction of mankind and the entire planet.” Kramer died in 2001, but as the Iran nuclear agreement has been cancelled by the Trump administration and the 74th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings make headlines, renewing US-Russian nuclear tensions, his Eisenhower-era movie retains an unfortunate relevance.
The audience take-away. On the Beach, of course, stems from an era when nuclear weapons were primarily in the hands of two world superpowers. Today there seems to be powerful nuclear capability in virtually every global neighborhood. Which makes the message of this novel and this film all the more timely.
