[SustainableTompkins] FREE Green Guerrillas Blockumentary Screening 09-08

[pete meyers]

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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