[FLPERMACULTURE] FREE Green Guerrillas Blockumentary Screening 09-08

[Michael Burns]

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> From: pete meyers <truthisonepathsaremany at yahoo.com>
> Date: September 5, 2006 11:33:26 PM EDT
> To: Sustainable Tompkins <sustainabletompkins at lists.mutualaid.org>, 
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> Subject: FREE Green Guerrillas Blockumentary Screening 09-08
>
> Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated invites you
> to...
>
> GREEN GUERRILLAS BLOCKUMENTARY COMMUNITY SCREENING
> (back by popular demand!)
>
> Friday, September 8, 2006
> Ithaca Commons Amphitheater
> 8:00 - 9:30 PM
> FREE
>
>   “When you give kids who’ve been stereotyped as not being able to do
> anything the chance to do something great, they’ll step up.”
>    - West Philly High School Electric Vehicle Team Coach
>
> On Friday, August 18th, over 150 community members representing diverse
> backgrounds came out to support the Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech
> Trainee program, a pilot project of S.T.A.M.P.’s Guerrilla Griots Human
> Rights Media Arts Center.  Back by popular demand, the Green Guerrillas
> invite you to join us for our second community screening.
>
> The “Green Guerrillas” are local young people who knew relatively
> nothing about digital media, green building, organic food, or
>  renewable
> energy at the start of the summer.  Through twenty hours per week of
> hands-on instruction with an all-volunteer staff and limited equipment,
> the Green Guerrillas learned how to use computer and video technology
> to build entrepreneurial job skills, convert a diesel engine to run on
> vegetable oil, and make a music video for a local hip hop group.
>
> The Green Guerrillas also learned the power of producing their own
> media as young people of color and immigrants with limited resources by
> watching and analyzing films and videos—connecting 500-year-old issues
> of prejudice, inequality, oppression, and discrimination with the
> increased use of policing, supervision, detention, and incarceration
> nationwide and abroad.  These young people began to understand the role
> mainstream media plays in supporting stereotypes which promote the
> status quo and perpetuate unhealthy behaviors.
>
> By dismantling low expectations and
>  offering the Green Guerrillas “the
> chance to do something great,” S.T.A.M.P. promoted self-respect,
> empowerment, leadership, and self-determination among young people who
> are stereotypically, disproportionately, and adversely affected by
> criminal justice policies in our community.
>
> We invite you to learn more about the Green Guerrillas by joining us on
> Friday, September 8th, beginning at 8 PM on the Ithaca Commons, for our
> second community screening of the “Blockumentary” produced this summer.
>   The Blockumentary features local applications of green building and
> renewable energy technologies, and also adds another perspective to the
> local efforts to re-name State Street after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>   For more information call 607-277-2121 or email info at stamp-cny.org.
>
> In the event of inclement weather, the
>  screening will be moved to the
> Henry St. John Building, Suite 103, located at the corner of Clinton
> and Geneva Streets in downtown Ithaca.
>
> S.T.A.M.P. thanks the Tauck Foundation, Tompkins County Youth Services,
> cypher:dissident, P.M.S. Media, Slawomir Grunberg, The Sadler Family,
> Haley Viehman, Renovus Energy, Liquid Solar, Tompkins Workforce New
> York, Taste of Thai Express, Greenstar Cooperative Market, Wegmans Food
> & Pharmacy, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca Youth Bureau,
> Cinemapolis Movie Theater, Women’s Community Building, Ithaca Community
> News, and Juna's Cafe for their continued support of our efforts.
>
>
> Pete Meyers
> Tompkins County Workers' Center
> 115 E. State Street
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> 607-269-0409
> www.TCWorkersCenter.org
> www.TCSwarm.org
>
> "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the 
> powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."--Paolo 
> Freire
>
> "A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To 
> lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete 
> order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving 
> full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and 
> dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new 
> efforts are powered."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
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