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Community Cinema: Daisy Bates resources

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Community Cinema screening of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock. Our next screening will be Feb. 7th and will feature More Than A Month.

For further study of the issues presented in the January screening, please consider checking out these resources at your local branch of the Austin Public Library.

A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School /LaNier, Carlotta Walls.

Can we talk about race? : and other conversations in an era of school resegregation / Beverly Daniel Tatum

Five miles away, a world apart : one city, two schools, and the story of educational opportunity in modern America / James E. Ryan.

My father said yes : a white pastor in Little Rock school integration / Dunbar H. Ogden

Oh, do I remember! : experiences of teachers during the desegregation of Austin’s schools, 1964-1971 / Anna Victoria Wilson and William E. Segall

Remember Little Rock : the time, the people, the stories / Walker, Paul Robert.

The Detroit school busing case : Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation / Joyce A. Baugh.

The power of one : Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine / Fradin, Judith Bloom.

The long shadow of Little Rock : a memoir / Bates, Daisy

Why she stayed at an African-American school, Solomon Coles, during desegregation / Brenda Mazone Glasgow.

Little Rock nine / Poe, Marshall.

Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock / Margolick, David Turn away thy son : Little Rock, the crisis that shocked the nation / Jacoway, Elizabeth

Fighting their own battles : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / Brian D. Behnken.

Little Rock Central [videorecording]

The story of Ruby Bridges [videorecording]

Nine from Little Rock [videorecording]

With all deliberate speed [videorecording]

Community Cinema: Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock 1/3

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Join KLRU and the Austin Public Library for free Community Cinema screenings on the first Tuesday of the month at the Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr,). Screenings will start at 7 p.m. with a discussion to follow each of the films. The next screening will be Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock on January 3rd.

Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. The life of Daisy Bates tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis–pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself.

Community Cinema: Lioness wrapup

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Thanks to everyone who attended the December Community Cinema screening at the Windsor Park Branch Library. A special thanks to our guests from the Texas Veterans Commission and Operation Outreach for sharing their thoughts on the film.  If you missed the screening, Lioness will air on KLRU December 27th at 10 pm. You can watch a preview on PBS’ Independent Lens website.

The Austin Public Library has many books and dvds related to this subject. Be sure to check them out!

A few good women : America’s military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Band of sisters : American women at war in Iraq / Holmstedt, Kirsten A.

Battle cries and lullabies : women in war from prehistory to the present / De Pauw, Linda Grant.

Camouflage isn’t only for combat : gender, sexuality and women in the military / Herbert, Melissa S.

Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight : gender, folklore, and changing military culture / Carol Burke

Co-ed combat : the new evidence that women shouldn’t fight the nation’s wars / Browne, Kingsley

Count on us : American women in the military / Nathan, Amy.

Fly girls [videorecording]

Ground zero : the gender wars in the military / Francke, Linda Bird.

Hell hath no fury : true stories of women at war from antiquity to Iraq / Miles, Rosalind

I am a soldier, too : the Jessica Lynch story / Bragg, Rick

I’m still standing : from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen– my journey home / Johnson, Shoshana

Love my rifle more than you : young and female in the U.S. Army / Williams, Kayla

Masquerade : the life and times of Deborah Sampson, Continental soldier / Alfred F. Young

Officer, nurse, woman : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War / Vuic, Kara Dixon

Side-by-side : a photographic history of American women in war / Lewis, Vickie

Tailspin : women at war in the wake of Tailhook / Zimmerman, Jean

The Iraq war [videorecording]

The kinder, gentler military : can America’s gender-neutral fighting force still win wars? / Stephanie Gutmann

The lonely soldier : the private war of women serving in Iraq / Benedict, Helen

The mysterious Private Thompson : the double life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War soldier / Laura Leedy Gansler

The nightingale of Mosul : a nurse’s journey of service, struggle, and war / Luz, Susan

The virgin warrior : the life and death of Joan of Arc / Taylor, Larissa

The warrior queens / Fraser, Antonia

Tough as nails : one woman’s journey through West Point / Dwyer, Gail O’Sullivan

Women doctors in war / Bellafaire, Judith

Women in America’s wars / Sheafer, Silvia Anne

Women in combat : civic duty or military liability? / Fenner, Lorry M.

Women in the military : an unfinished revolution / Holm, Jeanne

Women veterans : America’s forgotten heroines / Willenz, June A

WWII they also served [videorecording]

When Janey comes marching home : portraits of women combat veterans / Browder, Laura

Community Cinema: Lioness 12/6

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Join KLRU and the Austin Public Library for free Community Cinema screenings on the first Tuesday of the month at the Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr,). Screenings will start at 7 p.m. with a discussion to follow each of the films. The next screening will be Lioness on December 6.

Lioness
How did five female Army support soldiers–mechanics, supply clerks and engineers–end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq War? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers give an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into direct ground combat, despite a policy that bans them from doing so. Through harrowing personal stories, these women candidly share their experiences in Iraq as well as from their lives back home to form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war.

Community Cinema: We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân) 11/1

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Join KLRU and the Austin Public Library for free Community Cinema screenings on the first Tuesday of the month at the Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr,). Screenings will start at 7 p.m. with a discussion to follow each of the films. The next screening will be We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân) on November 1st.

We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân)
The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. AS NUTAYUNEAN – We Still Live Here tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no Native speakers has been revived in this country. Spurred on by an indomitable linguist named Jessie Little Doe, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back.

Community Cinema: Deaf Jam recap

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Deaf Jam screening on October 4.

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned.

Access News airs at 1 pm on Sundays on KLRU. You can also watch episodes on their website at accessnews.us

Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services information is on their site at dars.state.tx.us/dhhs

Read more about the film and watch clips on the documentary’s website deafjam.org

These materials are available for check out from the Austin Public Library:
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Community Cinema: Deaf Jam 10/4

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Join KLRU and the Austin Public Library for free Community Cinema screenings on the first Tuesday of the month at the Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr,). Screenings will start at 7 p.m. with a discussion to follow each of the films. The next screening will be Deaf Jam on October 4.

Deaf Jam
Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry. As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a spoken-word slam, her journey leads to an unexpected collaboration.

ITVS Awards KLRU Grant for Women & Girls Lead

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Independent Television Service (ITVS) recently awarded KLRU a $750 Women & Girls Lead grant to fund costs associated with a Community Cinema screening in early September at Windsor Park Branch Library.

Women and Girls Lead is a multiyear public media initiative to leverage independent documentary film and public service engagement to amplify the voices of women and girl leaders, expand understanding of gender equity, and engage a network of citizens and organizations to tune in and get involved.

Community Cinema brings communities together through independent film by providing resources and opportunities for education, engagement, and action — transforming film and public broadcasting into powerful resources for individuals, communities and organizations.  Community Cinema presents a different documentary the first Tuesday of the month at a public library.

Peace Unveiled is the film that took center stage on September 6th.  It told the story of three women who organized in late 2009 when ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban.  In order to protect women’s interests, they maneuvered against formidable odds to have their voices heard in a peace jirga and high peace council.

Peggy Kelsey of The Afghan Women’s Project spoke at the event about her personal visits to Afghanistan.  She had interviewed a few of the women in the film for her book.  Gaea Logan, a psychologist who started the Dakur project and who specializes in neurology behind psychological states, also spoke.  She discussed the psychological strength it took the women to stand up and demand to be heard in front of the war lords who were on the peace panel.  Audience discussion primarily focused on the topic of hope for the future of Afghanistan, and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to learn more about the issues presented in the screening.

Thank you, ITVS, for making this Community Cinema event possible!

Community Cinema begins again this September

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KLRU has again partnered with Austin Public Library’s Windsor Park Branch and ITVS’ Independent Lens for monthly Community Cinema film screenings and discussions. The events take place the first Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at Windsor Park Branch Library located at 5833 Westminster Dr. Austin, TX 78723. This years films are:

September
Peace Unveiled
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women who immediately began to organize to make sure that women have a seat at the negotiating table. One is a savvy parliamentarian who participated in writing the Afghan constitution that guarantees equality for women; another, a former midwife who is one of the last women’s rights advocates alive in Kandahar; and the third, a young activist who lives in a traditional family in Kabul. Convinced that the Taliban will have demands that jeopardize women’s hard-earned gains, they maneuver against formidable odds to have their voices heard in a peace jirga and high peace council. We go behind Kabul’s closed doors as the women’s case is made to U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer, General David Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who promises the women that “peace and justice can’t come at the cost of women and women’s lives.” But will this promise be kept? Narrated by Tilda Swinton.

October
Deaf Jam
Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry. As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a spoken-word slam, her journey leads to an unexpected collaboration.

November
We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân)
The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. AS NUTAYUNEAN – We Still Live Here tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no Native speakers has been revived in this country. Spurred on by an indomitable linguist named Jessie Little Doe, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back.

December
Lioness
How did five female Army support soldiers–mechanics, supply clerks and engineers–end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq War? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers give an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into direct ground combat, despite a policy that bans them from doing so. Through harrowing personal stories, these women candidly share their experiences in Iraq as well as from their lives back home to form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war.

January
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. The life of Daisy Bates tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis–pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself.

February
More Than a Month
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, MORE THAN A MONTH investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.

March
Revenge of the Electric Car
Filmmaker Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever.

April
Hell and Back Again
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home – injured physically and psychologically – and build a new life? HELL AND BACK AGAIN that asks and answers these questions with the conflict in Afghanistan as the backdrop. Two overlapping narratives intercut: the life of a Marine on the war front, and the life of the same Marine in recovery at home – creating a realistic depiction of how Marines experience this war.

May
Strong!
A formidable figure, standing at 5’8″ and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. STRONG! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unusual elite athlete faces, exploring popular notions of power, strength, beauty and health.