Jo Comerford, Executive Director of the 
Peace & Justice Center Film Series: Spring 2010
Spring 2010 Film Series
All films begin at 7 p.m. Sunday evenings at the Center, 170 Park Street, Bangor.
February 28: Who’s Got the Power?
Who’s Got The Power, a forceful, new documentary film, addresses head on the reality of global warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, and its attendant dangers in the form of carbon dioxide emissions and presents genuine and workable solutions. From the vantage points of world-renowned scientists, environmental activists, physicians, financial advisers, designers, builders, coal miners and others, the global warming debate unfolds. In addition, inner city and suburban consumers in America, Germany and Japan share their personal experiences with solar-powered housing.
March 28: Union Maids
Union Maids is an appealing documentary about three women involved in the workers’ movements in the early 1930s. These women vividly tell us the way it was back then when they and other people risked jobs and lives attempting to organize trade unions amid the textile factories and meat producers of Chicago in order to remedy injustices to the factory workers. The film relates the workers’ movement to the continuing struggle for equality for women, and there are comments on the unions of the 1970s as being too conservative. Some of the music is by Woody Guthrie as sung by crusader-singer Pete Seeger.
April 25: Winter’s Doorstep
In Winter’s Doorstep, filmmakers Tom Jackson and Desiree Dow investigate the cause of 2008′s spike in oil prices that prompted Maine’s Senator Olympia Snowe to declare that the oncoming winter “could be Maine’s Katrina”. Reports had emerged that some Mainers were forced to make choices between food, meds, or enough heating oil to stay warm. As the next winter approached, myriad reasons for ending our addiction to oil still existed, including the possibility of another price spike that could be devastating to Maine’s poor and working poor.
May 23: Health, Money, and Fear
This documentary features Dr. Paul Hochfeld, an experienced emergency room physician, and several other knowledgeable medical professionals who diagnose the U.S. health care system as sick, broken and in dire need of repair. These experts reveal the complex contributing factors that have led to a costly system that cares more about profits than efficient, quality health care, and also recommend the prescription for a cure. Also included is a special 5 minute animated feature ”Single Payer Explained” by Dr. Graham Walker.
- Free and open to the public
- Discussion after each film
- Call ahead for childcare
- 942-9343, email: info@peacectr.org
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