RSVP-SUN NOV.24TH.-Reflections on the War on Terror- Film,Music & Carmen Trotta
GCH not Q | 21.11.2013 09:51
(new album out soon!)
http://www.youtube.com/user/loverselectric
VIDS *Carmen Trotta at White House speaks on Shaker Aamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akcpFwV3tE
* Lovers Electric "Storm" http://www.youtube.com/user/loverselectric
* Razz "Help" for Pvt Manning (live "stadium rock" version in Wrexham Wales)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXQ7tvAl0tc
WHEN - SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24th. 1-5pm
WHERE - Giuseppe Conlon Hall, 49 Mattison Rd. (off Green Lanes) Harringay London N4 1BG
TRANSPORT - TUBE Manor House, BUS -"Mattison Rd" bus stop pn Green Lanes for 29, 341 or 141
*RSVPing is not essential, but it helps the organisers of the event organise the event!
RSVP ciaronx AT yahoo.com
or text 07 927 259 363
*****1pm DOORS, GATHER ......
***** 1.30pm SHARP FILM (90 mins)
Private screening of a yet to be released (in Europe) documentary. Due to arrangement with U.S. film makers we cannot announce the title.
The documentary follows the draft board raid movement that developed in the U.S. nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War after the initial raid by the Baltimore 4 & Catonsville 9. Along with the well known radical priests Frs. Daniel & Philip Berrigan, former prisoners & participants of other raids are featured & interviewed as well as analysis provided from such observers as BIll Ayers (Weather Underground), Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman (Democracy Now).
****3.30 PM GUEST SPEAKER CARMEN TROTTA (NYC USA)
Carmen Trotta Reflects on 12 years of the "War on Terror"
Carmen was an eyewitness to the fall of the World Trade Centre, walked to Guantanamo to hold vigil
with http://witnesstorture.org/ and went to jail in the U.S. for nonviolent resistance to the "War on Terror"
Since 1989, Carmen has worked with the homeless while based on the lower East Side of New York City at the original Catholic Worker house of hospiitality founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day.Carmen has been mentored by Phil & Dan Berrigan subjects of the documentary. Carmen sings Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash & Elvis
VID (5 mins) Carmen Trotta speaks about Shaker Aamer - Londoner in Guantanamo - outside the White House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akcpFwV3tE
****4PM MUSIC AND SOCIAL
Lovers Electric http://www.youtube.com/user/loverselectric
Razz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXQ7tvAl0tc
Carmen.....
other speakers & musicians to be announced.
The event will be followed by an informal social in the Giuseppe Conlon venue.
Please bring food to share.
BYO Drinx - off licenses located on Green Lanes.
VID (7 MINS) - what our last gig looked like - informal & inclusive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiDPcplbaY
For more information contact
Mobile 07 927 259 363
ciaronx AT yahoo.com
GCH not Q
Homepage:
www.londoncatholicworker.org