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Subject: Standing Rock and Beyond presentation Sunday
From: ArgusFest
Date: Sat, Jan 21, 2017 11:46 am
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
Tomorrow afternoon my friend Joseph will be giving a powerful presentation about what has been happening at Standing Rock and how it connects to the multitude of issues with which we are now faced. It is a comprehensive talk that will be well worth your time. See the details below.

Jason Bosch
Water is Life: Standing Rock and Beyond
a presentation by Joseph Medicine Robe

Sunday, January 22
12:30 PM
First Plymouth Congregational Church of Denver
La Foret Room, 2nd Floor
3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver
(SW corner of E. Hampden Ave. & S. Colorado Blvd.)
 
What has been taking place at Standing Rock, North Dakota, over the past 10 months is an inspiration and a wake-up call that has brought millions of people across the United States and the world to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock, including over 400 Indigenous Nations worldwide, thousands of Interfaith Clergy, teachers, farmers, veterans, Resolutions from numerous City Councils across the US, and people from all walks of life.  
 
 
 
Joseph Medicine Robe will offer a revealing and expanded PowerPoint presentation that examines the awareness that has blossomed from the issues that have been raised from Standing Rock.  His PowerPoint presentation will include:  the preciousness of water;  care for Mother Earth and care for the climate;  healing and transformation;  historical context;  “Doctrine of Discovery”;  treaties;  access to clean water;  the numerous oil pipelines throughout the United States;  some examples of oil pipeline spills;  whistleblower testimony;  excessive force by the police and DAPL;  violation of civil rights;  key events at Standing Rock and current status;  media coverage, consolidation and control;  the banks and financing of big oil and related industries;  other environmental issues;  major oil reserves in the world;  corporatocracy;  and what we, as concerned citizens and caretakers of Mother Earth, can do to address these issues.
 
 
 
Please join us for this rare opportunity to look at the connections and to more deeply understand what is taking place in our society.   Preceding the presentation, Joseph will offer a traditional Lakota prayer song on the Native flute, to set the tone and establish our prayer.
 
 
 
Since September, Joseph Medicine Robe has made three trips to Standing Rock Reservation, delivering supplies and giving support.  On his third trip to Standing Rock (from November 23 to December 7), he was able to participate in a powerful silent peace walk led by hundreds of women, and witness the gathering of hundreds of Interfaith Clergy and 4,000 veterans who had come to stand in solidarity with the movement and with protecting the water.
 
 
 
In addition to supporting the efforts at Standing Rock, over the past several decades Joseph Medicine Robe has been actively involved in volunteer and spiritual work on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, assisting elders and at-risk-youth, and working with a number of medicine elders over the years.  Also, since 1996, Joseph has been an ordained lay clergy member of the Order of Interbeing, under the tutelage of Buddhist teacher Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh.  The Order of Interbeing was established on the principles and practice of engaged compassion, alleviating suffering, service and compassion-in-action, and was founded in Vietnam in the 1960s during the height of the US war on Vietnam.
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Subject: Outer Space and Back to Africa
From: ArgusFest
Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2016 8:26 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, February 24 - Out of the Present
Thursday, February 25 - Welcome to Leith
Wednesday, March 2 - We Come as Friends
Thursday, March 3 - We Will Win Peace
 
Hello friends of ArgusFest,

Reminder, ArgusFest is now on Wednesday Nights at the Mutiny Information Cafe, and most Thursdays at the Mercury Cafe. 

This Wednesday, we'll venture into space for the big picture. Out of the Present looks back at earth from the eyes of space station Mir, as the Soviet Union collapsed beneath its orbiting cosmonauts. Wednesday the 24th at the Mutiny.

And Thursday this week, another recent film: Welcome to Leith, about a 2012 American extremist plot to take over a city government in North Dakota. Thursday the 25th at the Mercury.

Next Wednesday, we're pleased to present a remarkable film: We Come as Friends, "a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa."  Wednesday the 2nd at the Mutiny.

Also Thursday next week, We Will Win Peace looks at persistent conflicts in the Congo and the role played by demand for rare earth minerals to power electronics.  And how well does the US' Conflict Minerals act do what it intends?  Thursday the 3rd at the Mercury.

Mark Arend
 
ArgusFest is community supported and would not happen without your support.

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A new documentary exploring unresolved questions about charity, philanthropy, aid, finance and economic development in relation to peace, justice, human rights, democracy, health and ecology.

 
Out of the Present
Wednesday, February 24
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver
 
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev left Earth for the Mir space station in 1991, a citizen of the Soviet Union. As he orbited the planet, his nation collapsed, its fate uncertain. Krikalev, too, faced an uncertain fate, as his return to Earth loses priority amidst the chaos down below. Upon his final descent to the planet, Cosmonaut Krikalev must brace for a new world, one far different than the one he left behind.

The film takes place during a single orbit of the space station around the earth: 90 minutes. "...the extraterrestrial shots and scenes have the effect of somehow dwarfing and distancing these historic events, however momentous. Galaxies, like grains of sand, spread across the sky, and even the epochal sights of the collapse of the Soviet state shrivel in comparison" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune)  Watch the trailer
 
Welcome to Leith
Thursday, February 25
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St., Denver

Leith, North Dakota is a registered ghost town of 24 people. Its inhabitants are mostly farmers or ranchers, with land passed down through generations. The town has an apocalyptic beauty set against a prairie backdrop of wide-open sky and fields of wheat.
 
In May of 2012, an outsider named Craig Cobb moved in and started buying up property. He accumulated twelve plots of land, some empty, some with houses in various states of disrepair. People figured he'd moved in to be close to the Bakken oil fields some 70 miles north. Turns out he was a notorious white separatist who was plotting a takeover of the city government. Shortly after his plans were unveiled, a family of fellow white separatists moved in to start fixing up his properties. 

WELCOME TO LEITH is an eerie document of American DIY ideals played out in one of the most under populated states in the nation. Watch the trailer
We Come as Friends
Wednesday, March 2
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver
 
At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old "civilizing" pathology re-emerges - that of colonialism, the clash of empires, and new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director of DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE takes us on this voyage in his tiny, self-made, tin and canvas flying machine. He leads us into most improbable locations and into people's thoughts and dreams, in both stunning and heartbreaking ways. Chinese oil workers, UN peacekeepers, Sudanese warlords, and American evangelists ironically weave common ground in this documentary, a complex, profound and humorous cinematic endeavor - a tale of very old and rather sinister verses. A puzzling, challenging and provocative documentary. Watch the trailer
 
We Will Win Peace
Thursday, March 3
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St., Denver
 
Seth Chase spent several years making marketing videos for humanitarian organisations in Central Africa. Now, turning the camera back on his industry, he explores the unintended impact this work can have. We Will Win Peace goes behind the scenes of humanitarian advocacy and activism in the United States – via the forests and mines of the eastern Congo - to reveal the limits of good intentions, in an unexpected story that follows the lives of two Congolese miners as they react to the competing pressures placed upon them by Hollywood celebrities, rebel soldiers, student activists, and, ultimately, their own families. Watch the trailer
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Subject: Australia, Africa and Outer Space
From: ArgusFest
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 10:30 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, February 16 - Charlie's Country
Wednesday, February 24 - Out of the Present
Wednesday, March 2 - We Come as Friends
Thursday, March 3 - We Will Win Peace
 
Hello friends of ArgusFest,

This week's film will be our last on Tuesday nights at the Mutiny Information Cafe... because next week, we're moving to Wednesday Nights at the Mutiny!  We'll still be showing films on certain Thursdays at the Mercury Cafe too. All dates and places are given for each film below. 

This Tuesday, we're pulling a switcheroo to screen Charlie's Country, a beautiful documentary-style drama about an Australian Aboriginal man's struggles to escape the Whitefellas laws. Tuesday the 16th at the Mutiny.

Next Wednesday, we'll venture into space for the big picture. Out of the Present looks back at earth from the eyes of space station Mir, as the Soviet Union collapsed beneath its orbiting cosmonauts. Wednesday the 24th at the Mutiny.

The following Wednesday, we're pleased to present a remarkable film: We Come as Friends, "a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa."  Wednesday the 2nd at the Mutiny.

This same week, Thursday at the Mercury, We Will Win Peace looks at persistent conflicts in the Congo and the role played by demand for rare earth minerals to power electronics.  And how well does the US' Conflict Minerals act do what it intends?  Thursday the 3rd at the Mercury.

 
ArgusFest is community supported and would not happen without your support.

Thank you!

 
A new documentary exploring unresolved questions about charity, philanthropy, aid, finance and economic development in relation to peace, justice, human rights, democracy, health and ecology.

 
Charlie's Country
Tuesday, February 16
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver
 
Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie (David Gulpilil) is a warrior past his prime. As the government increases its stranglehold over the community's traditional way of life, Charlie becomes lost between two cultures. His new modern life offers him a way to survive but, ultimately, it is one he has no power over. Finally fed up when his gun, his newly crafted spear, and his best friend's jeep are confiscated, Charlie heads into the wild on his own, to live the old way. However Charlie hasn't reckoned on where he might end up, nor on how much life has changed since the old days. Watch the trailer  
 
Out of the Present
Wednesday, February 24
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver
 
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev left Earth for the Mir space station in 1991, a citizen of the Soviet Union. As he orbited the planet, his nation collapsed, its fate uncertain. Krikalev, too, faced an uncertain fate, as his return to Earth loses priority amidst the chaos down below. Upon his final descent to the planet, Cosmonaut Krikalev must brace for a new world, one far different than the one he left behind.

The film takes place during a single orbit of the space station around the earth: 90 minutes. "...the extraterrestrial shots and scenes have the effect of somehow dwarfing and distancing these historic events, however momentous. Galaxies, like grains of sand, spread across the sky, and even the epochal sights of the collapse of the Soviet state shrivel in comparison" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune)  Watch the trailer
 
We Come as Friends
Wednesday, March 2
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver
 
At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old "civilizing" pathology re-emerges - that of colonialism, the clash of empires, and new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director of DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE takes us on this voyage in his tiny, self-made, tin and canvas flying machine. He leads us into most improbable locations and into people's thoughts and dreams, in both stunning and heartbreaking ways. Chinese oil workers, UN peacekeepers, Sudanese warlords, and American evangelists ironically weave common ground in this documentary, a complex, profound and humorous cinematic endeavor - a tale of very old and rather sinister verses. A puzzling, challenging and provocative documentary. Watch the trailer
 
We Will Win Peace
Thursday, March 3
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St., Denver
 
Seth Chase spent several years making marketing videos for humanitarian organisations in Central Africa. Now, turning the camera back on his industry, he explores the unintended impact this work can have. We Will Win Peace goes behind the scenes of humanitarian advocacy and activism in the United States – via the forests and mines of the eastern Congo - to reveal the limits of good intentions, in an unexpected story that follows the lives of two Congolese miners as they react to the competing pressures placed upon them by Hollywood celebrities, rebel soldiers, student activists, and, ultimately, their own families. Watch the trailer
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Subject: The Judge and The General, and Beasts of No Nation
From: ArgusFest
Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2016 10:23 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, January 19 - The Judge and the General

Tuesday, January 26 - The End of Poverty?
Thursday, January 28 - Beasts of No Nation

 
Welcome to the new ArgusFest email list. Thanks for signing up.

This Tuesday the 19th we see a view of the brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet over Chile, through the eyes of the Judge later assigned to prosecute him for human rights crimes.

Next Tuesday the 26th, The End of Poverty? examines the degree of corporate exploitation that causes poverty across the globe. This offers a bit of context for our Thursday film...

Thursday the 28th, Jason Bosch returns for a night of hosting at the Mercury! He brings us Beasts of No Nation, from Uzodinma Iweala's award-winning novel of the same name.

 
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The Judge and the General
Tuesday, January 19
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

 
When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzmán had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup — waged as an anti-Communist crusade — that left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared." The filmmakers trace the judge's descent into what he calls "the abyss," where he uncovers the past — including his own role in the tragedy.

The Judge and the General reveals one of the 20th century's most notorious episodes and tells a cautionary tale about violating human rights in the name of "higher ideals." Watch the trailer


 
The End of Poverty
Tuesday, January 26
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

 
Do the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times? And is this the basis of our modern system where wealthy nations regularly exploit the poor? People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning questions about colonialism and its consequences: land grabs, exploitation of natural resources, free market debt, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth.

Narrated by Martin Sheen, this incisive documentary features Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, and Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. 
Watch the trailer
 
 
 
 
Beasts of No Nation
Thursday, January 28
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

 
Special host Jason Bosch!

Based on the award-winning 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldiers of West Africa. The story follows Agu, a young boy forced to join a group of soldiers in Nigeria. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail. This startling film paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier. Watch the trailer.
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Subject: " The Look of Silence and Super Secret Mystery Movie
From: ArgusFest
Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 7:40 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, January 12 - The Look of Silence
Thursday, January 14 - Super Secret Mystery Movie
Tuesday, January 19 - The Judge and the General
Thursday, January 28 - Beasts of No Nation
Welcome to the now ArgusFest email list. Thanks for signing up.

This Tuesday we will be showing the stunning follow-up film to An Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer. The Look of Silence continues to explore the psychology of the perpetrators of genocide in Indonesia and how the survivor's lives have been impacted. You do not need to have seen An Act of Killing to follow The Look of Silence. The film stands on its own and is deeply insightful. If we are ever to prevent crimes against humanity we must fully understand all the contributing factors, including what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil," How average people are capable of participating in the most heinous crimes. 

On Thursday at the Mercury Cafe we will be showing a super secret mystery movie. You will have to attend in order to find out what it will be. I will say that it is artistically filmed and philosophically contemplative.
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Thank you!

 
The Look of Silence
Tuesday, January 12
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

 
Through Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered - and the identity of the men who murdered him. The killers live just down the road, and have been in power ever since the genocide. The family's youngest son, born after the genocide, asks how he can raise his children in a society where survivors are terrorized into silence, and everybody is terrorized into treating the murderers as heroes. In search of answers, he decides to confront each of his brother's killers. The killers still hold power, so these confrontations are dangerous. The killers respond with fear, anger, and naked threats. But he manages these encounters with dignity, asking hard questions about how the killers see what they did, how they live side-by-side with their victims, and how they think their victims see them. Through these confrontations, we feel and understand what it is like to live for decades encircled by powerful neighbors who murdered your children. The Look Of Silence does something virtually without precedent in cinema or in the aftermath of genocide: it documents survivors confronting their relatives' murderers in the absence of any truth and reconciliation process, while the murderers remain in power. Watch the trailer
 
Super Secret Mystery Movie
Thursday, January 14
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

 
You will never know unless you go. It's out of this world....
The Judge and the General
Tuesday, January 19
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

 
When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. Guzmán had supported Pinochet's 1973 coup — waged as an anti-Communist crusade — that left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared." The filmmakers trace the judge's descent into what he calls "the abyss," where he uncovers the past — including his own role in the tragedy. The Judge and the General reveals one of the 20th century's most notorious episodes and tells a cautionary tale about violating human rights in the name of "higher ideals." Watch the trailer
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Date: Mon, Jan 04, 2016 4:03 am
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One Night in Bhopal
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A NOTE FROM JASON:


"Can you see it?"

"No."

"It's there."

"I don't see it. Let me get closer."


"No, step away and look!"

As I travel, talking with people within the third sector and reading more about the multi-billion dollar aid business and the "social entrepreneurial," "philanthrocapitalist" shifts in giving, which declare that funders should "do well while doing good," I feel alone and resolute. Alone because very few people I talk with get where I'm coming from (yet). Their training and work has oriented them to the logic of money and to think of solutions within the system. It's very practical to do so, especially when the system is providing your pay check. I feel resolute because I know that although the work being done is pragmatic, it will not create the outcomes many of us hope for and in fact need if we are to survive, let alone thrive. The system demands infinite growth on a finite planet. It favors competition over cooperation, scarcity over abundance, destruction over conservation, concentration over decentralization and efficiency (of capital growth) over resiliency (of communities and nature). Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook) and his wife recently pledged to give $45 billion over their lives to promote "personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities." They aren't giving this money directly to a foundation, which has been the traditional approach, but instead have put it into an LLC, which will incorporate business investments with grant making. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a traditional foundation and like all foundations also has business investments and is trying to blend the profit motive with social causes. But those have opposing sets of values and one of them, the profit motive, clearly ranks higher in importance. Despite giving away most of his fortune to his foundation, Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world. I suspect this is because the work the foundation does is also helping to create near monopolistic control over some markets in which he has investments but I cannot confirm this because his private investments are, well..private. We do know his foundation is heavily investing in big pharma and big agro and chemical companies such as Monsanto, which is putting farmers into deep unpayable debt buying their proprietary seeds and pesticides that aren't meeting the promised yields and causing many farmers to lose their land and end up committing suicide. ArgusFest screened a powerful film about this called "Bitter Seeds." When I was in Seattle I visited the Gates Foundation and there was not only no acknowledgement of these massive problems but a glorification of their systemic causes. My interview requests to the Gates Foundation went unanswered but I did talk with some critics, which I look forward to sharing as there is much more to this story. The Zuckerberg plan to help save the world also involves pulling people into systems of central control and dependency. For instance, he and his wife are pushing a "Free Basics" internet on India, which is closed and controlled. Imagine allowing one company to control all the information you get? Of course, we are practically there ourselves with media consolidation but not completely. There are still vestiges of unmediated communication on the internet in America. More on that later.

I've also been reading a lot on the road and have discovered the connections between big business and philanthropy go way back. Andrew Carnegie in his essay "The Gospel of Wealth" wrote in 1889, "We accept and welcome...great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these (few) as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race." The philanthropic billionaires of today may not publicly declare such a belief (in fact they claim the opposite; that they are fighting for equality) but in practice Carnegie's declaration is exactly what they are promoting. There is no debate about it either. The financial elite are free to spend their money how they wish accountable to no one. But it is an immense amount of power to be concentrated in so few hands. My film will challenge that power and ideology.

This is just a tiny sampling of what I'm working on. Feel free to share your thoughts. I am currently in the San Francisco bay area and will be here for two more weeks before heading home. I am grateful for all the support I've received so far but must ask once again for help. Please donate to this important project if you can afford to. The money helps cover my travel expenses in addition to equipment costs.

You can contribute by visiting thirdsectorfilm.com/#contribute

Thank you and here's to a more sane and compassionate 2016!
 
Jason Bosch
303-669-7286    
One Night in Bhopal  
 
Tuesday, January 5   
 
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

The Bhopal disaster is one of the world's worst industrial disasters in the history of mankind. The explosion at Union Carbide plant located at the heart of the city of Bhopal caused a release of toxic gas rolled along the ground through the surrounding streets killing thousands of people.
The gases also injured anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 people. Six safety measures designed to prevent a gas leak had either malfunctioned, were turned off or were otherwise inadequate. In addition, the safety siren, intended to alert the community should an incident occur at the plant, was turned off.

Mixing drama and eyewitness accounts, this documentary tells the story of the night of the disaster through the people who lived there.

The drama-documentary focuses on five local people, who saw first-hand the effects of the gas on the patients, a local police superintendent who helped to restore calm on the night and a young technician at the factory whose life was saved by an oxygen mask.

 
The Look of Silence  
 
Tuesday, January 12
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Through Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered - and the identity of the men who murdered him. The killers live just down the road, and have been in power ever since the genocide. The family's youngest son, born after the genocide, asks how he can raise his children in a society where survivors are terrorized into silence, and everybody is terrorized into treating the murderers as heroes. In search of answers, he decides to confront each of his brother's killers. The killers still hold power, so these confrontations are dangerous. The killers respond with fear, anger, and naked threats. But he manages these encounters with dignity, asking hard questions about how the killers see what they did, how they live side-by-side with their victims, and how they think their victims see them. Through these confrontations, we feel and understand what it is like to live for decades encircled by powerful neighbors who murdered your children. The Look Of Silence does something virtually without precedent in cinema or in the aftermath of genocide: it documents survivors confronting their relatives' murderers in the absence of any truth and reconciliation process, while the murderers remain in power. 

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: 
 
This ArgusFest email list is being deleted in a week.

A new ArgusFest email list has been created using a different service called MailChimp.

If you wish to continue getting emails from ArgusFest you will need to sign up on our new list.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP ON THE NEW LIST!

If you do not sign up to the new list as of next week you will no longer receive emails from ArgusFest. 
 
Hi all,

This is Jason Bosch (founder of ArgusFest). I am switching the ArgusFest email list from Constant Contact to MailChimp and need you to take action if you want to keep getting the emails (see below for a more detailed description). To stay on the ArgusFest list you will need to sign back up to the new list by clicking blue link above and filling out the form.

If you are unsure about this or have questions feel free call or email me at: 303-669-7286 argusfest@gmail.com

What's this all about? (this might be useful info for those of you who manage email lists)

For years I've had difficulty with people not receiving ArgusFest emails despite being on the list and wishing to receive them. This also despite me paying $35 a month to Constant Contact and jumping through all thier hoops in order to ensure that I am not sending people unwanted SPAM. I've struggled with finding a solution with little success. I've finally come to the realization that I need to start with a clean slate. The ArgusFest email list is 14 years old and some of the addresses no longer exist. I would occasionally go through a remove bad addresses but I've recently discovered that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs), anti-SPAM and other companies use what are called "SPAMTRAPS". This is where they will take an expired or dead email address and reactivate it just to see who (in theory) is sending SPAM to it. The idea is that if someone is sending email to what should be a dead address then it must be a SPAMMER. That emails should only be going to "engaged" recipients. The problem with this is that If you are not a SPAMMER but get blacklisted because of a SPAMTRAP there is no real way of knowing you were blacklisted. I can only assume that has happened to ArgusFest with some ISPs because of talking with people who are not getting my emails. Also, there is no way of me knowing which email addresses are SPAMTRAPS so I cannot clean up my email list. And lastly, if I am listed as a SPAMMER through someone's ISP there are no places I can go to dispute it and work to resolve the issue. It's really quite lousy. Despite all these email filters the real SPAM still finds its way through while people like me have their speech suppressed (yes I do see this as a free speech issue). Anyhow, so to try to remedy this I have created a completely fresh email list with MailChimp, which is actually free up to 2000 emails so it will save ArgusFest some money. The unfortunate thing is I know I will lose some people in the process but I don't know of any better alternatives. So again, please sign up to the new list.

Thanks for listening and thanks again for supporting and participating in ArgusFest.

Have a HAPPY, HEALTHY and HARMONIOUS 2016!

Love,
Jason Bosch
303-669-7286    
 
Broken Land 
 
Tuesday, December 29
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Out in desert-like nature, living in the shadows of the immense fence that is erected to control Mexican immigration, seven Americans tell how the border transforms their lives. They observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants, people they never come face to face with, as they confide their fear, defiance and at times even compassion.

Can a fence protect you from evil? Can it preserve a perfect world? Or does the isolation of paradise transform it into a prison? «Broken Land is a philosophical journey that questions people's obstinacy to build their borders. In order to fully understand those who live on the desirable side we chose never to cross the border and stay in the United States. Our goal has always been to explore the real and imaginary effects of this protection that is gradually turning into an imprisonment. 
BROKEN LAND by St phanie Barbey and Luc Peter
BROKEN LAND trailer

One Night in Bhopal  
 
Tuesday, January 5   
 
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

The Bhopal disaster is one of the world's worst industrial disasters in the history of mankind. The explosion at Union Carbide plant located at the heart of the city of Bhopal caused a release of toxic gas rolled along the ground through the surrounding streets killing thousands of people.
The gases also injured anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 people. Six safety measures designed to prevent a gas leak had either malfunctioned, were turned off or were otherwise inadequate. In addition, the safety siren, intended to alert the community should an incident occur at the plant, was turned off.

Mixing drama and eyewitness accounts, this documentary tells the story of the night of the disaster through the people who lived there.

The drama-documentary focuses on five local people, who saw first-hand the effects of the gas on the patients, a local police superintendent who helped to restore calm on the night and a young technician at the factory whose life was saved by an oxygen mask.

Subject: "What Would Jesus Buy?
From: ArgusFest
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 8:52 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
Upcoming ArgusFest Events

Tuesday, November 24
Tuesday, December 1
Thursday, December 3
What Would Jesus Buy?
Roger Waters The Wall
A Road Not Taken

Below you'll find the details for upcoming ArgusFest films to be hosted by David and Mark.

I'm still on the road and will be for a while so if you would like to follow the progress on the my documentary film and get articles and interview clips then visit:

http://thirdsectorfilm.com/#contribute
(click "Sign-Up for the Newsletter")
 
Jason Bosch
303-669-7286
thirdsectorfilm@gmail.com 
 
 
What Would Jesus Buy?   
 
Tuesday, November 24  
 
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Bill Talen is a New York-based activist and performance artist who since the late '90s has won notoriety for his character Rev. Billy. Rev. Billy is a wildly charismatic street preacher and self-appointed leader of the Church of Stop Shopping, who began his career speaking out against the gentrification of New York City, the forced renovation of 42nd Street, and his favorite symbol of the evils of international marketing, the Disney Store. Since then, Rev. Billy has expanded his targets to include a number of firms (including Starbucks Coffee and several fast food chains) who engage in unfair labor practices and exploit Third World resources for profit; he also performs with a full gospel choir and a four-piece band as they spread the message of overcoming the consumer culture, speaking with your dollars and questioning what advertising and corporate spokespeople have to say. While Talen's routines started out as comic street theater, he's become recognized as an effective (if deliberately eccentric) advocate for economic justice.

 
Roger Waters The Wall    
 
Tuesday, December 1   
 
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Filmed across three cities and two continents, "Roger Waters The Wall" isn't your typical concert documentary. Co-directed by the Pink Floyd frontman and Sean Evans - the creative director of The Wall Tour - the movie oscillates between visually magnificent stage performances and footage of Waters at the grave sites for his grandfather and his father, both of whom were killed in action during the World Wars. More grounded in serious ideas than the psychedelic 1982 animated effort, "Roger Waters The Wall" manages to simultaneously bring the music to life in glorious audio-visual terms and ground its ideas in the real world. Even Pink Floyd's biggest fans have never experienced "The Wall" like this. Thirty-five years after the landmark double album hits stores, it's overdue for another appreciation, and "Roger Waters The Wall" does the trick.
 

A Road Not Taken     

Thursday, December 3     
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an environmentally-minded centre of learning in Maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria roof.

In "A Road not Taken", Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller travel back in time and, following the route the solar panels took, interview those involved in the decisions regarding these panels as well as those involved in the oil crisis of the time. They also look closely at the way this initial installation presaged our own era.
 
Subject: "My most important email to date." -Jason Bosch (founder of ArgusFest)
From: ArgusFest
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2015 6:18 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
Upcoming ArgusFest Events

Tuesday, November 17
Thursday, November 19
The End of America
The End of Suburbia
Dear friends and ArgusFest supporters,

     This is by far the most important email I've ever sent out. I know you are busy and probably inundated but please give me a few minutes of your time. My whole life has been leading up to this and I feel our future depends upon.  

     I'm dedicating the next several years of my life completely to a subject, which desperately demands our attention and has been systematically neglected. For the past month I've been living out of my van and travelling the West Coast working on a documentary film about non-profit and non-governmental organizations and how they fit into the world order.

     Over the years I've come to the belief that our monetary and economic systems are fundamentally and diametrically in opposition to our better values and to a healthy environment. I do not believe it is possible to create a just world that isn't constantly at war, that doesn't leave billions of people in desperate poverty, that doesn't manufacture and disburse cancer and other illness causing pollutants by the ton, and that isn't rapidly killing the planet's life sustaining and regenerating capacity. I do not think it is possible to create the world we hope for within this system. Furthermore, I think we are going to destroy ourselves and the ecology beyond repair if we don't radically change and soon. On a positive note, I do think we can change it and without violence. I'm inspired by the fact that hundreds of millions of people dedicate their time and money to working for change within the third sector. I believe we already have the numbers to change our condition but we must first address some difficult questions. Those questions are the focus of my film. I've launched a website where you can read more about the film, the issues and about my story, how I ended up on this project.

My new website is: http://thirdsectorfilm.com/

PLEASE HELP ME MAKE THIS FILM.

     I need your help in making this film. I'm putting all my time and energy into it and am asking for donations. Please read more about my film if you agree with me that this subject needs to be addressed then make a donation to the project. You can donate here: http://thirdsectorfilm.com/#contribute

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or thoughts to share.

Thank you and lots of Love,

Jason Bosch
303-669-7286
thirdsectorfilm@gmail.com

 
 
 
 The End of America  
 
Tuesday, November 17 
 
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

The filmmakers who rattled viewers with The Devil Came on Horseback and The Trials of Daniel Hunt return to explore outspoken author Naomi Wolf's controversial claim that America has begun a frightening descent into dictatorship with this documentary that takes its title from the incendiary novel of the same name. Is American democracy, as we know it under attack? By examining the chilling parallels between the current state of our nation and the ascent of dictators and fascism in other once-free societies, Wolf urges viewers to open their eyes to the horrors that could lie ahead. From the increased use of paramilitary groups to the construction of secret prisons and the targeted suspension of the rule of law, the warning signs are all there for people to wake up and finally take notice.
Watch the Trailer

The End of Suburbia    

Thursday, November 19    
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

Since the end of World War II, American families have steadily moved away from large cities into suburban areas, with little thought to the ecological costs of suburban life. Creating neighborhoods with large single-family homes that require significant amounts of energy to heat and are located an inconvenient distance from schools, shopping centers, and employment districts that demand the daily use of automobiles, suburbs are remarkably inefficient communities built around the notion that fossil fuels will always be inexpensive and readily available. However, many experts have speculated that the Earth's supply of oil and natural gas is rapidly dwindling, and that the amount available may throw the world into a global, political, and economic crisis in the foreseeable future. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream is a documentary which examines the rise of the suburban lifestyle, the costs to the Earth and the economy of our current living habits, where we may be headed, and how this situation can be remedied. 
Watch the Trailer
Subject: Our Brand is Crisis (the documentary)
From: ArgusFest
Date: Mon, Nov 02, 2015 11:23 am
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
Upcoming ArgusFest Events

Tuesday, November 3
Tuesday, November 10
Thursday, November 12
Thursday, November 19
Our Brand is Crisis
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
The Loss of Liberty
The End of America

  Our Brand is Crisis 

Tuesday, November 3  
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

This is the original 2005 documentary, which has now been made into a feature film starring Sandra Bullock. The synopsis: Bolivia is on the brink of a violent coup d'etat, but that can't stop the political strategy team of GCS -- Greenberg Carville Shrum -- from putting together a slick American style re-election campaign for unpopular presidential candidate Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. Featuring unprecedented access, this documentary follows Clinton administration political strategist James Carville as he leads a media assault team from the back rooms of Washington, D.C., to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.


Manda Bala
(Send a Bullet)  

Tuesday, November 10  
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Brazil is a nation where political and economic corruption and violent crime are a way of life for many, and filmmaker Jason Kohn examines some of the more unusual ways they manifest themselves in this documentary. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) is an examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims, an auto customizer whose speciality is bullet-proofing luxury cars and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm. Manda Bala (Send A Bullet) won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.



The Loss of Liberty   

Thursday, November 12   
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

The USS Liberty was an electronic intelligence-gathering ship that was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast on June 8, 1967. Israeli planes and torpedo boats opened fire on the Liberty in the midst of what became known as the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. 34 Americans were killed and more than 170 were wounded in the attack. Israel and its supporters have long maintained that the attack was a "tragic case of misidentification," an explanation that Lyndon Johnson's administration did not formally challenge. Israel claimed its forces thought the ship was an Egyptian vessel and apologized to the United States. After the attack, a Navy court of inquiry concluded there was insufficient information to make a judgement about why Israel attacked the ship, stopping short of assigning blame or determining whether it was an accident. On Wednesday, a former top Navy attorney publicly said for the first time that President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered the U.S. military investigation to conclude that the Israeli attack was an accident. The attorney, retired Captain Ward Boston, said the White House ordered investigators to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary." Boston was the senior legal counsel to the Navy's 1967 review of the attack. He said he was prompted to come forward following the publication of the book 'The Liberty Incident' which concluded the attack was an accident.

Subject: Nero's Guests and Thrive
From: ArgusFest>
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 11:55 pm
To: walt@CivicSatisfaction.org
Upcoming ArgusFest Events

Tuesday, October 27
Thursday, October 29
Tuesday, November 3
Nero's Guests
Thrive
Our Brand is Crisis

Nero's Guests
The Age of Inequality 

Tuesday, October 27  
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this.

Nero´s Guests is a story about India's agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, P Sainath.

Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act.

Through his writings and lectures, Sainath makes us confront the India we don't want to see, and provokes us to think about who 'Nero's Guests' are in today's world.


Thrive  

Tuesday, October 29  
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream - uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives.

The film will be followed by a critical discussion.

  Our Brand is Crisis 

Tuesday, November 3  
7:30 PM
Mutiny Information Cafe
2 South Broadway, Denver

This is the original 2005 documentary, which has now been made into a feature film starring Sandra Bullock. The synopsis: Bolivia is on the brink of a violent coup d'etat, but that can't stop the political strategy team of GCS -- Greenberg Carville Shrum -- from putting together a slick American style re-election campaign for unpopular presidential candidate Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada. Featuring unprecedented access, this documentary follows Clinton administration political strategist James Carville as he leads a media assault team from the back rooms of Washington, D.C., to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.


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