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On Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. the Binghamton Political Initiative (BPI) will be screening the film "Darwin's Nightmare" (Austria, 2004) in the GSO Lounge. The film screening is part of the International Film Series of the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) at SUNY Binghamton. All screenings take place in the Graduate Student Lounge (LN 1104). This event is free and open to the public. Synopsis: Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… . Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world's biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.    PAST EVENTS SUNY Social Justice Conference, November 7-9, 2008, at Binghamton University The first SUNY Social Justice Conference was a staging ground for over 350 students, organizers, activists and allies to build a united movement across our diverse communities for solidarity and social change. Budget cuts and privatization close doors to public higher education, but the state's prison system drains away funds into an ever-expanding industrial complex. As more young people of color enter penitentiaries than enroll in the SUNY system, campuses reap the benefits of forced prison labor. As educators and students fight to be heard, the state suffocates the power of unions to organize and negotiate. And as endless wars rage overseas, vital resources are wrested from communities back home. Drawing upon the rich history of vital student participation in struggles for social change, we gathered on the first weekend in November to build new movements for justice. It was a most successful weekend of organizing, learning, networking, and connecting, feauturing workshops, strategy-sessions, discussions and a keynote address by people's historian Howard Zinn. For more information see: http://www.sunysocialjustice.org/ Film screening of THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, October 16, 2008. Followed by a discussion with George McAnanama (B.C. Veterans for Peace) and Anna Gotlib (Department of Philosophy, BU). Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the “Tipton Three,” in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. Their terrifying first hand account is documented in THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began its bombing campaign, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo. For more information see: http://www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com/

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