The Peace and Justice Task Force Proudly Presents

A Preview Showing of Danny Schechter's Plunder: The Crime of Our Time

Hosted by the Filmmaker

When: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Where: All Souls Unitarian Church, Reidy Friendship Hall, 1157 Lexington Avenue @ 80 Street, NYC (take the #6 train to 77 Street)

In 2006 filmmaker Danny Schechter was denounced by some reviewers as an "alarmist" for his film In Debt We Trust, which warned of the coming credit crisis. He was labeled a "doom and gloomer," until the economy melted down vindicating his warnings. His new film, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time, is a hard-hitting investigative film that shows how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity.

To tell this story, Schechter speaks with bankers involved in these activities, respected economists, insider experts, top journalists such as Paul Krugman, and even a convicted white-collar criminal who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices.

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time looks into how the crisis developed—from the mysterious collapse of Bear Stearns to the shadowy world of trillion dollar hedge funds. Insiders who work in the industry and know it well tell both of these stories. Plunder also shows how hastily arranged government bailouts did not revive the economy and may have lost billions.

Ultimately the film calls for a full investigation and structural reforms of financial institutions to insure accountability by the white-collar perpetrators who profited from the
misery of their victims.

This is a preview showing of this soon-to-be released film. The filmmaker Danny Schechter, who was here one year ago talking about this subject, will host this event and take questions following the showing.

Danny Schechter is the founder and executive editor of Media Channel and founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of GlobalVision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in 1986. A broadcast and print journalist and internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues, Schechter has been honored with numerous awards, including the Emmy and George Polk Awards. He was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WBGH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC.

Light Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored with Resistance Cinema of Community Church of New York
Free event. Donations appreciated.

The Peace and Justice Task Force Presents:

"Does Torture Work?"
A Benefit Screening with Co-Director, Jeffrey Stephens

When: Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 1:00 p.m. - Reidy Friendship Hall
Where:  The Unitarian Church of All Souls, 1157 Lexington Avenue at 80th Street, NYC (take the #6 train to 77 Street)

Since 9/11 our country has faced a constitutional and moral crisis: a pervasive fear of another 9/11-type attack has been used to justify interrogations that are viewed around the world as constituting torture. How did we get here?

"Does Torture Work?" explores the Philippine-American relationship and how it intersects in crucial ways with the here and now. America's first colonial endeavor provides context for a look at many issues surrounding the use of torture: What is torture? What is the history of torture in the Western Democracies? How does this history intersect with our current situation? Does torture work?

"Does Torture Work?" is brought to you by Pushback Partners, whose core mission is to produce educational videos about subjects that have been little explored by most media outlets. Co-Directors Jeffery Stephens, Jay Boekelheide, and Rachel Silverman have many years of experience and awards (including an Oscar) in radio and television, as well as feature and documentary film.

Free event:  Donations will contribute to the completion of "Does Torture Work?"

For more information: www.pushbackpartners.org 

The purpose of this conference is to bring together antiwar and social justice activists from across the country to discuss and decide what we can do together to end the wars, occupations, bombing attacks, threats and interventions that are taking place in the Middle East and beyond, which the U.S. government is conducting and promoting. Attend and voice your opinion on where the antiwar movement is today and where we go from here.

Additional Speakers: Joel Kovel, Dahlia Wasfi, Leila Zand, Cheri Honkala, Medea Benjamin, Pardiss Kebriaei, Kathy Kelly, Michael Ferner, Kevin Martin, Michael McPhearson, Nada Khader, Larry Holmes, Michael Eisenscher, David Swanson, Glen Ford, Blanca Missé, Pam Africa, Cindy Sheehan, Fahima Vorgetts, Kathy Black, Debra Sweet, Noura Erakat, Ann Wright (partial list)

For more information, write This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or UNAC at P.O. Box 21675, Cleveland, OH 44121 or call 518-227-6947 or visit  website at http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org/

Peace Action Fund of New York State and The Nation Institute present:

A World Without Nuclear Weapons Obama's Vision, Our Mission

"The United States will take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons." – President Barack Obama, April 5, 2009

Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York City
When: Thursday, April  8th, 7 p.m.. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Join this panel of leading experts in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation on the ongoing international struggle for the containment 
and eventual reduction of the nuclear threat, and how President Obama and the U.S. Senate can be pushed to fulfill the promise of a world 
without nuclear weapons. This important public conversation is occurring in the run-up to the UN's regular review of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty that will take place on May 1, 2010.

Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower, nuclear expert and star of the academy-nominated documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America
Jonathan Schell, bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth and The Unconquerable World, and Nuclear Weapons Doris Shaffer Fellow at The 
Nation Institute
Kennette Benedict, Publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Moderated by Phil Donahue

Audience questions will be taken.

This event is part of The Doris Shaffer Memorial Lecture Series and is free of charge.

Co-sponsored by The New Society for Ethical Culture, Public Concern Foundation, Democrats.com, Haymarket Books, Nuclear Age Peace 
Foundation, NY., and Peace Action Education Fund.

For more information: http://www.nationinstitute.org/events/310