From: astarte <[address removed]>
Subject: RE: [african-24] New Meetup: Movie Night at VIFF- Sweet Crude
To: [address removed]
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 1:57 PM

Hello All,
Just to let you know that the African Peace Forum (some of you attended the festival this year) is actively seeking new volunteer organizers and forming a new board. If you are interested in participating please consider attending this AGM.
 

African Peace Forum Society AGM
will be held on

Sunday October 18th 2 pm
at the Centre of Intergration
at 811 Carnarvan St. in New Westminster BC

Agenda will include reports from Board of Directors
and election of a new Board of Directors

Followed by a pot luck reception

Detailed agenda to follow

For more information email [address removed] or call [masked]

 

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the
world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its
purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore
wonders.

~ Andrew Harvey, *The Return of the Mother*

 

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From: [address removed]
To: [address removed]
Subject: [african-24] New Meetup: Movie Night at VIFF- Sweet Crude
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:45:22 -0400

Announcing a new Meetup for Vancouver African Meetup Group!

What: Movie Night at VIFF- Sweet Crude

When: October 8, 2009 9:00 PM

Where:
Empire Granville 7 Cinema
855 Granville St
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K7
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Sweet Crude is about Nigeria ?s Niger Delta - the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since we met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The film also prominently features strong women leaders who have become powerful advocates for their people, some of whom led the 2002 takeover of the Chevron oil platform. Sweet Crude confronts issues of human rights, resource control, environmental justice and mainstream media agendas.



The filmakers have dedicated the last three years to bringing this little known story to light. Their film crew was imprisoned by the Nigerian military last year in an effort to suppress the film. It didn?t work. Now they are working hard to get it seen by as many people as possible.

Learn more here:
http://african.meetup.com/24/calendar/11518965/




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