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….
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July 2003
THRU JULY 7 WOODLAND PATTERN: Photo Exhibit. Riverwest: Everybody’s Neighborhood. Photos by John Ruebartsch. THRU JULY 25 Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum: Portraits and landscapes by Diane McKay. JULY 6- august 10 CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM: Photography by mother and son duo Sally and Andrew Duback. 1 TUESDAY BI DEFINITION: Milwaukee’s bisexual community organization, open […]
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The Matrix Reloaded
by Jim Rovira
The problem isn’t with human beings or machines: the problem posed by the Matrix trilogy is the problem inherent in instrumental reason, reason applied to the goal of dominating nature and other people.
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Woodland Pattern Book Center
by Kevin Flaherty / photos by Tess Reiss
Anne Kingsbury, the soft-spoken co-founder of Woodland Pattern Book Center on Locust Street, exhibits the same traits as many entrepreneurs: passion for what she does and a clarity of vision to hold true to the “company” mission. The mission, though, for Woodland Pattern, isn’t selling the most books at the greatest profit, but to promote poetry, literature, and audience development for writing.
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Suicide and War
[quote]Once the poets resounded over the battlefield; what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age that is struggling on toward its careening future? And indeed it hardly requires the call, its own battle-din roars into song. But so far no-one has succeeded in singing an epic of peace. What is it about peace, […]
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