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The Newsletter of the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice
112 N. Upper St. Lexington KY 40507 859.255.6999
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! The Gender and Women’s Studies Department at recommended...for its devoted and emotive investiga"
the University of Kentucky runs this Spring Film Series tion and portrayal of life in war"torn Baghdad," says
through February and March. Our January issue of Educational Media Reviews.
Peaceways featured information on the February films. ! Commentary and discussion led by Diane King and
This month, we feature those to be screened in March. Ban Al"Attar. Diane King is Assistant Professor in An"
For a complete listing see: www.as.uky.edu/news thropology whose research on Iraq focuses on gender,
_events/events/Pages/2008-09GWSEvents.aspx. identity, and conflict and its resolution. Ban Al"Attar
! The two films listed here are shown on UK’s recently received her Master's degree from UK's Col"
campus in Lexington at the Gaines Center’s lege of Public Health. She is from Iraq.
Bingham"Davis House, 218 E. Maxwell Street.
They are both free and open to the public. Tuesday, March 31, 7:00 pm: Bringin in Da Spirit.
Through the use of first person narrative and rare ar"
Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 pm: My Home#Your chival images, this film documents the history of Afri"
War. Shot in Baghdad over three years that span the can American midwives, those women who have skill"
time before, during and after the invasion of Iraq, this fully brought scores of children across the threshold of
film brings a perspective that has rarely been available existence. Narrated by Phylicia Rashad, Bringin in Da
to U.S. audiences. Spiri# celebrates women who have committed them"
! It combines interviews with Layla Hassan and her selves to holistic answers amidst powerful misconcep"
family, vibrant scenes of Baghdad, and intimate footage tions about the practice of midwifery and virulent op"
shot by Layla herself to paint a picture of how the war position from practitioners of Western medicine. The
has a$ected average Iraqis. Her shy teenage son turns film won the Paul Robeson Award Initiative Special
to militancy, her once"progressive sister dons the veil, Prize, FESPACO, Burkina Faso, 2005.
and whatever freedom Layla had under Saddam ! Commentary and discussion led by Rynetta Davis,
Hussein's secular rule is steadily being eroded. Assistant Professor in English, who researches and
! While facts about the Iraq war garner much U.S. writes about black and white women's cross" and
media attention, My Home"Your War is an account of intra"racial friendships as they are depicted in 19th and
something seldom discussed: how the Iraq war has cre" 20th century African"American literature.
ated a situation where the rise of fundamentalism is
putting women's rights increasingly at risk. ")H*ighly
Wednesday, March 25th Holler Poets Series #11 presents poets for peace in the For more information:
8:00 pm mountains, a writer's perspective on mountaintop removal, www.myspace.com/
Al's Bar, 6th & Limestone, featuring Erik Reece, Jason Howard, Jane Gentry Vance, Jude hollerpoets.
Lexington McPherson, Silas House, and George Ella Lyon(hosted by
Eric Sutherland. The event is FREE.
March 30th"April 3rd Fair Trade Week at Transylvania University For more information:
Transylvania University, Monday, March 30th(Information Booths around campus Sara Marie Thompson at
Lexington Tuesday, March 31st(Panel discussions with local vendors, smthompson09
activists and professors @transy.edu
Wednesday, April 1st(Community Art Project in Gratz Park
Thursday, April 2nd(Movie Night, held in Cowgill Building
Friday, April 3rd(Fair Trade Fashion Show
1st Wednesday CKCPJ Board Meeting, in our o#ces at 112 N. Upper St. Nabeel Jawahir, Co"chair
7:00 pm All are welcome. 859.619.3369
Every Thursday Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace, Triangle Park in downtown
5:30 " 6:00 pm Lexington.
1st Monday Kentucky Migrant Network, Cardinal Valley Center Jennifer Hubbard"Sánchez
12:00 noon " 1:30 pm 1306 Versailles Road www.mnclex.net/Welcome.html jsanchez@lfucg.com
1st Wednesday Franciscan Peace Center, 3389 Squire Oak. Pat Gri#n
4:00"6:30 FranciscanVision.org 859.230.1986
2nd Wednesday Humanist Forum of Central Kentucky $AHA%, Unitarian Dick Renfro
7:00 " 8:30 pm Universalist Church, 3564 Clays Mill Rd. 859.255.7029
3rd Thursday Kentuckians for the Commonwealth $KFTC%, Episcopal Ondine Quinn
7:00 pm Diocese Mission House, 4th St. and Martin Luther King 859.276.0563
Every Sunday NAMI Lexington Support Groups "" Faye Morton Center, call 859.272.7891 or go to
2:30+4:00pm Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, Wendall Building basement lexington.nami.org