2010 SKAGIT HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
7 pm Fridays, through April 2, Phillip Tarro Theater at SVC • Sunday events at 3pm at the Lincoln Theatre • Free, donations appreciated
HUMAN RIGHTS: Are our perceptions driven by the media?
Friday, March 5th – Housing as a Human Right
Every human being has the right to safe, affordable shelter. The housing discussion will be sparked by
Jack Stevens, founder of Natural Building Network (NBN), who will present on what NBN has been doing to re-define building codes and create zoning clauses that will allow more people to build their own affordable houses. The film First Earth, Uncompromising Ecological Architecture will follow. The evening will include a panel of local advocates for fair, affordable housing in Skagit County.
Film, First Earth, Uncompromising Ecological Architecture; (Producer, David Sheen) is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. First Earth makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world and lend themselves to community building projects that can enable more people of modest means to participate in building their own homes.
Saturday, March 6th – Natural Building Workshop – fee for participants, scholarships available
Local housing rights advocates and the Natural Building Network will lead a workshop on how our communities can create healthy, affordable housing, including some hands-on demonstrations of ancient building processes that can be done by most people today. The workshop will end with an optional tour of some of the alternative buildings in Skagit County.
Sunday, March 7th – film, Hannah Free - Sharon Gless, (Burn Notice, Queer as Folk, Cagney & Lacey) stars in the passionate lesbian drama Hannah Free, a new film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home. Tickets $10 general, $8 students/seniors, Lincoln Theatre. 3 PM
Hannah (Sharon Gless) and Rachel (Maureen Gallagher) grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial."
Co-sponsored by the HRF committee, Skagit PFLAG, and the Lincoln Theatre
Fridays at the Phillip Tarro Theater on Skagit Valley College campus at 7 PM – free/donation
Sunday films at Lincoln Theatre, time 3 PM.
For more information, please contact Jodie Buller at skagitHRF@gmail.com or 360 336-5087 Ext. 136
Friday, March 12th –
Genocide in Our Time: Why Darfur Matters, speaker Dr. James Waller
As global citizens, it is imperative to recognize that genocide continues to occur in the twenty-first century. Since February 2003, the genocide in Darfur, Africa’s largest country, has devastated millions of non-combatant civilians in Darfur. This timely presentation explores the ways Darfur matters in a globalized world and how we, as citizens, can respond to shape political will and impact public policy.
James Waller, Ph.D. is regularly involved as an instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. These seminars introduce mid-level government officials from around the world to issues of genocide warning and prevention.
Sunday, March 14th – film, The Other Side of Immigration,
sponsored by the Skagit Immigrant Rights Council –
Tickets: sliding scale $5 - $10; Lincoln Theatre, 3 PM.
The Other Side of Immigration examines the causes and effects of international migration from the perspective of rural Mexican communities where large numbers of people leave to work in the United States. The power of the film emerges from the seldom-heard and deeply resonant voices of Mexicans living with the effects of immigration policy, NAFTA, Mexican agricultural policies, and Mexican politics. The Other Side of Immigration provides audiences a fresh perspective on undocumented Mexican immigration and creative proposals for managing the phenomenon more effectively.
Friday, March 19th, War and Peace
How does media reporting on war shift our values and priorities around peace?
This evening will focus on peacemaking efforts around the world and here at home, featuring the documentary Rethink Afghanistan, from Robert Greenwald, the director of Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq for Sale. We'll look at the unique and powerful role that women are playing in creating a global peaceforce, with a follow-up discussion on the short documentary: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping: Building a Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Friday, March 26th, Health as a Societal Right: Is Capitalism Killing Us?,
speaker Dr. Stephen Bezruchka
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, an emergency room physician with 30 years of experience, currently teaches courses in Population Health at the University of Washington. His study of what influences the health of societies reveals that social and economic disparity within a given society is a stronger determinant of health, well-being and longevity than is access to health care. Dr. Bezruchka's prescription for a healthier America includes working to lessen the gap between the rich and the poor, prioritizing care in early childhood, increasing the opportunities for and status of women, and creating more socially connected communities. http://depts.washington.edu/eqhlth/
Every human being has the right to safe, affordable shelter. The housing discussion will be sparked by
Jack Stevens, founder of Natural Building Network (NBN), who will present on what NBN has been doing to re-define building codes and create zoning clauses that will allow more people to build their own affordable houses. The film First Earth, Uncompromising Ecological Architecture will follow. The evening will include a panel of local advocates for fair, affordable housing in Skagit County.
Film, First Earth, Uncompromising Ecological Architecture; (Producer, David Sheen) is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. First Earth makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world and lend themselves to community building projects that can enable more people of modest means to participate in building their own homes.
Saturday, March 6th – Natural Building Workshop – fee for participants, scholarships available
Local housing rights advocates and the Natural Building Network will lead a workshop on how our communities can create healthy, affordable housing, including some hands-on demonstrations of ancient building processes that can be done by most people today. The workshop will end with an optional tour of some of the alternative buildings in Skagit County.
Sunday, March 7th – film, Hannah Free - Sharon Gless, (Burn Notice, Queer as Folk, Cagney & Lacey) stars in the passionate lesbian drama Hannah Free, a new film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home. Tickets $10 general, $8 students/seniors, Lincoln Theatre. 3 PM
Hannah (Sharon Gless) and Rachel (Maureen Gallagher) grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial."
Co-sponsored by the HRF committee, Skagit PFLAG, and the Lincoln Theatre
Fridays at the Phillip Tarro Theater on Skagit Valley College campus at 7 PM – free/donation
Sunday films at Lincoln Theatre, time 3 PM.
For more information, please contact Jodie Buller at skagitHRF@gmail.com or 360 336-5087 Ext. 136
Friday, March 12th –
Genocide in Our Time: Why Darfur Matters, speaker Dr. James Waller
As global citizens, it is imperative to recognize that genocide continues to occur in the twenty-first century. Since February 2003, the genocide in Darfur, Africa’s largest country, has devastated millions of non-combatant civilians in Darfur. This timely presentation explores the ways Darfur matters in a globalized world and how we, as citizens, can respond to shape political will and impact public policy.
James Waller, Ph.D. is regularly involved as an instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. These seminars introduce mid-level government officials from around the world to issues of genocide warning and prevention.
Sunday, March 14th – film, The Other Side of Immigration,
sponsored by the Skagit Immigrant Rights Council –
Tickets: sliding scale $5 - $10; Lincoln Theatre, 3 PM.
The Other Side of Immigration examines the causes and effects of international migration from the perspective of rural Mexican communities where large numbers of people leave to work in the United States. The power of the film emerges from the seldom-heard and deeply resonant voices of Mexicans living with the effects of immigration policy, NAFTA, Mexican agricultural policies, and Mexican politics. The Other Side of Immigration provides audiences a fresh perspective on undocumented Mexican immigration and creative proposals for managing the phenomenon more effectively.
Friday, March 19th, War and Peace
How does media reporting on war shift our values and priorities around peace?
This evening will focus on peacemaking efforts around the world and here at home, featuring the documentary Rethink Afghanistan, from Robert Greenwald, the director of Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq for Sale. We'll look at the unique and powerful role that women are playing in creating a global peaceforce, with a follow-up discussion on the short documentary: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping: Building a Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Friday, March 26th, Health as a Societal Right: Is Capitalism Killing Us?,
speaker Dr. Stephen Bezruchka
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, an emergency room physician with 30 years of experience, currently teaches courses in Population Health at the University of Washington. His study of what influences the health of societies reveals that social and economic disparity within a given society is a stronger determinant of health, well-being and longevity than is access to health care. Dr. Bezruchka's prescription for a healthier America includes working to lessen the gap between the rich and the poor, prioritizing care in early childhood, increasing the opportunities for and status of women, and creating more socially connected communities. http://depts.washington.edu/eqhlth/
in Post-war Bosnia,
speaker Peter Lippman
The 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina produced the most wrenching change in that turbulent country in a thousand years. The July 1995 massacre of over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys at the hands of extreme nationalist Serb forces was emblematic of the worst of that war. The unwieldy Dayton peace agreement left a partitioned country in which rival war leaders still have the upper hand; thus, the future of Bosnia is still in peril. Meanwhile the survivors of Srebrenica, including thousands of widows, still struggle to survive. In conjunction with the showing of the Srebrenica memorial quilt, Peter Lippman presents the story of the ordinary Bosnians and their difficult postwar recovery.
Peter Lippman, a lifelong human rights activist from Seattle, has spent several years in Bosnia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia, both before and after the war. Some of his writings can be found at
http://advocacynet.org/resource/1033?blog=61
and http://www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/journal.htm
http://www.quilt.qsoup.net
The Srebrenica memorial quilt and related photos will be on display throughout the month of March at the Lincoln Theater gallery.
The Srebrenica memorial quilt and related photos will be on display throughout the month of March at the Lincoln Theater gallery.