Timber GAP & Radical Shorts

Friday, Mar. 17
8:30 pm ATA 992 Valencia, @ 21st, S. F.

Earth Films, HAVC & the VAN host a night of radical eco-political video shorts. Headlining with the premiere of "Timber GAP," the story of the Fisher Family of GAP Inc's new redwood logging "investment" and the growing activism against The GAP stores. Interconnected issues of sweatshop labor, ecocide, gentrification, globalization and violence against activists will be exposed. Discussion to follow screenings. Free food by Food Not Bombs.

Preceded by a series of Radical Shorts:

SHUT EM DOWN (9 Min) by Whispered Media - An A16/IMF/World Bank "call to action", with new footage from anti-WTO/ Seattle protests set to music.

Tree Sit (trailer) for upcoming feature film by HAVC, (6 min) - about non-violent eco- resistance movement, focusing on the Headwaters campaign and Julia Butterfly's marathon tree-sit.

Made in the USA? (14 min) Nightline's surprisingly good investigative look at the sweatshop labor exploitation on the S. Pacific island of Saipan, a colony of the US, where women workers are indentured servants and forced abortions are common.

Adbusters Subvertisments A variety of 30-second, super slick, anti-Ads designed to make people question consumerism, produced by the Media Foundation/Adbusters.

A Cry in the Woods (7 Min) by Lisa Grossman/Act Now Productions The story of David Gypsy Chain, an Earth First! activist killed by a logger falling old growth redwoods near Headwaters Forest.

Eugene Pepper Spray Attack (7 min) Activists sit in trees to protect them >from a new parking lot. Police bring a cherry picker and visciously pepper spray them. Produced by Tim Lewis

Images from the Redwood Forest (8 min.) Produced by HAVC Beautiful pristine forests, ugly clear-cuts, and brave tree-sitters.

Please help us get the word out and continue to make films from behind the Redwood curtain! Here a few suggestions on how you or your group can help: * Order a video and show it at your group meeting, events, or on campus. * Write a review of the video in your paper/newsletter, * Interview the filmmaker and pepperspray victims on your local radio shows. * Donate ad space in your publication, to run our video mail order ad. * Air the video on your local Cable Access station. * Organise a benefit video showing in your area and send the money to HAVC, the groups included in the film or North Coast Earth First!. * Help with a cash donation to sponsor our next video (Tree-Sit The Art of Resistance), HAVC is a very small non-profit collective working on a shoestring budget. Our video/filmmaker's have been covering the Headwaters/Earth First! issues (in Northen California) for many years trying to get this important message to the world, please help us in any way you can! To order a video please send a donation of $20 check or money order H.A.V.C P.O.Box 2198 Redway, CA 95560 or Call 415-824-3890 www.havc.org

Place:Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st Street, San Francisco. This location is wheelchair accessible

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