FILMS and more FILMS! =D

We are RE-SCREENING our first film (due to a marketing snafoo).

WHAT: Life & Debt in Jamaica

Quick blurb: Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies, and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. POTLUCK! (Please bring something if you can, but if you can't, come anyway! =D) (Remember: no raw food.)

WHERE: WH-133

WHEN: Wed., Oct. 8 @ 5:00 p.m.

FOOD: Well, we'll bring some snacks. Please feel free to bring any non-raw food stuffs, and we'll make this a potluck! =) If you can't bring anything, please come anyway!


Our next film will be Blood Diamonds on Wed., Oct. 16 @ 5 p.m. in WH-133. This will be a pot luck also, so if everyone could bring a little something, that would be awesome. However, even if you can't bring anything to eat or drink, please feel free to come anyway! After the movie, we'll talk about some of the best alternatives available to diamonds.

Remembering the Holocaust

One Woman Recalls Her Experience

The story of Renee Firestone helps us see the Holocaust in a different light with facts unknown to the average population.

This Semester at the IPJ

* Aug. 20 - Nov. 8 *
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Galleries
"China's Olympian Human Rights Challenges"
Human Rights Watch Photography Exhibit presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice.
Don't miss this bold collection of recent photos from China illuminating some of the human rights issues spotlighted by the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Open free to the public on Wednesdays and Thursdays 12 - 7 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. For related lecture, see Sept. 17 below.

* Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. *
Peace & Justice Theatre
"Human Rights in Post Olympics China: Has Anything Changed?"
Carroll Bogert, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch, will examine how the Olympic Games impacted human rights in China. Please arrive early to view "China's Olympian Human Rights Challenges," a Human Rights Watch photography exhibit.
A reception will follow the lecture. To RSVP online, go to http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/ and scroll down to find the event.

* Friday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. *
Kroc IPJ Garden of the Sky Special Event
- International Day of Peace Celebration -
Commemorating the United Nations International Day of Peace, this celebration is hosted by the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Enjoy live entertainment, documentary films, a photography exhibit on human rights in China, and a dove release at noon. Free and open to the public. For further details go to http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/ and scroll down to find the event.