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Strive Media Institute Hosts Brown Bag Tuesdays Independent Film Festival

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Milwaukee-Strive Media Institute, 1818 N. Martin Luther King Drive in Milwaukee, will showcase a number of independent, non-fiction films through a collaboration with Listen Up and P.O.V. (PBS) There will be seven different independent films shown, one each Tuesday at noon, and viewers are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch for extra enjoyment of the passionate and powerful P.O.V. films….

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This Weekend in Riverwest

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Little Jimmy & The Blackbirds – Mrs. Fun – 3400 Pierce St. Block Party – Stand for Peace & Justice – Riverwest Accordian Club – Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans – Dr. Chow’s Love Medicine – Riverwest Gardener’s Market – Yoga for the Community – Mike Frederikson of the Mosleys – Open Stage at Mac’s Red Eye

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Welcome to My Mid-Life Crisis! 8/7-8/9

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Susanne (Benish) Carter of Carter Productions announces a facelift to her original one-woman show, WELCOME TO MY MID-LIFE CRISIS! This revised and expanded production is a sexy, zany, whimsical, and hilarious look into one woman’s search for her lost libido.

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Film: Massacre in Afghanistan – 7/13

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Peace Action–This is a documentary film that describes evidence of the killing of about 3,000 – 5,000 prisoners by Northern Alliance Afghan allies of the U.S. with the complicity of U.S. troops. This occurred after the surrender of several thousand fighters supporting the Taliban during the siege of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan during November 2001. Prisoners of War were crammed into closed container trucks with no ventilation, and many were shot and left in a mass graves in the desert. Filmmakers document several slaughter sites….