JusticeVision
Democracy University Vol. 5:
Iraq/Jackson/Ward Valley/Int'l Criminal Court
Dear Justicevision Supporter- El nin~o has nothing on the flood of issues and events we've had the opportunity to videotape lately. We hope it isn't too soon since our last announcement, but with so many important issues to cover and promising events on the horizon, we are trying not to get too far behind. Democracy University Volume 5 includes 4 programs. The first includes a new documentary and eyewitness testimony (by Ramsey Clark and others) about the devasting effects of the US/UN embargo upon the people of Iraq. The second program is part of an event honoring Martin Luther King which includes talks by Jesse Jackson, Cal State University President Blenda Wilson, and comedian Steve Allen (who also demonstrates his abilities as a jazz pianist). The third event is a guided walking tour of the proposed nuclear dumpsite Ward Valley, where a handful of resistors is holding off the effort by the Bureau of Land Management to perform tritium testing as a step toward converting this sacred Native American site to a 1000 acre open pit radioactive waste dump (they need our help- go there!). The last event is about the effort to deter atrocities such as those that have occurred in Bosnia and Rwanda and to enforce human rights by establishing an International Criminal Court to prosecute genocide. This event includes testimony by U.S. Ambassador At Large for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer, and by Happy Mutesi, sole surviving member of a Rwandan family massacred in a refugee camp in 1994. The video with the above described four events is 6 hours and 6 minutes long, and is available for any donation of $10 or more. Please order by phone or email and send your donation after you get the videotape, in the remittance envelope we will send along with the videotape. When ordering, please give us a complete name and address, your phone number, and an email address if you have one and are ordering by phone, so we can inform you about new tapes when we make them available. Be sure you tell us which tape you are ordering; if ordering the above described videotape, you can refer to it as DU5. On behalf of my wife, Maria, and our four kids at home, Julia (12), Alex (7), Blase (5), and Charlene (3), I want to thank the majority of you that have supported us by sending in your pledges, and those that have helped additionally by sending along an extra donation and/or have placed orders for additional tapes. We are almost to the place where we are able to cover all our bills without going further into debt on the credit cards. Hopefully, those of you that haven't sent in your pledges will do so, so we can start paying down the credit cards and my student loans, and hopefully, be able to take the family on a vacation this summer. If you've ordered tapes you haven't received yet, sometimes I'm out of something and it takes a while to locate the originals and get more copies made, especially when I've had a lot of new events to tape and make copies of, as has been the case lately. I hope some of you are thinking about putting on events where you show the Democracy University videotapes. Ten to twelve years ago I organized a group called Socially Responsible Singles (but everybody was welcome, single or not) where we usually had speakers on issues but sometimes showed videos of other events I had videotaped, some of which drew quite well, even though a donation was requested at the door. I don't think anyone has tried putting out announcements for a "Democracy University" series, but if so, I would love to hear what happened. I am generally asked to tape on short notice; together with my other responsibilities it is hard for me to organize now, but I think that the possibility of a decentralized organization of interacting chapters that build on each other's experiences is there, and could even generate modest sustainers for its organizers. Thanks again for your support. Stay in touch! Ralph Cole, organizer of Justicevision, Los Angeles, Ca. (213) 747-6345; [email protected] PS: In case you are thinking about ordering earlier videos in the series but don't recall which was which, DU1 was the LoriBerenson/NoamChomsky/HelenCaldicott/Dugger video, DU2 was the DavidKorten/TonyClarke/Grossman/Zinn/Ivins video (on MAI and Corporations), DU3 was the HowardZinn/StudsTerkel/RalphNader video, which also included speeches by Winona LaDuke, Ronnie Dugger, and a number of others, and DU4 was the GoreVidal/ChristopherHitchens/MAI/Virgo/Duesberg video. I will be happy to send complete descriptions of each videotape upon request. Like the new one, they are each about 6 hours long and are available for any donation of $10 or more. FOOTNOTE: Before forwarding this letter to friends you may wish to add your name and address to the list below. Also, you may want to send a thank you, either a note or a small gift (like a dollar), to those who passed the information along to you. 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