UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS: 

POWER AND CONTROL: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
New Day Films, Peter Cohn, Filmmaker

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2019
Following the 11 AM service in the Board Room

Your Film Project has chosen to make the subject of domestic violence the focus of the fifth film of our current series. This 2010 documentary explores the causes of domestic violence and the solutions that have evolved to stop it, celebrating the activists who demanded change in the 1980’s and examining new alternative approaches that are now being advocated. This film introduces us to the “Duluth Model” and looks at the challenges from outside critics of this approach. We are reminded of the prevalence of domestic violence, whether it manifests in physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse and the silence that often surrounds it. An important subject and a well crafted exploration of it in this 50 minute film.

Discussion, as always, follows viewing of the film. Please bring whatever you wish to eat. We will offer a snack, not lunch.
Elaine, Cassandra, Mary Louise, Carol D., Dorris, Jeanie

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA    

ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS:

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE:  SUN, DECEMBER 16, 2018

The Advocates for Social Justice (A4SJ) Film Project continues with the 3rd film in its Care in Community series with the multi-award winning film CRAZYWISE.  Directed by Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson and released in 2017.

As a new and yet age-old approach to mental health care, it asks the question: Crazy…or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience.

Discussion, as always, follows the viewing of the film.  Please bring whatever you wish to eat.  We will offer a snack, not lunch.                             

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA

ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS:

Following Michael Moore’s searing indictment of US health care systems, the second offering in our Caring in Community series explores how our systems look closer to home. This 2012 Award-winning “The Waiting Room: 24 hours. 241 patients. One stretched ER”  from Peter Nicks, was reviewed by the New York Times: “As poetic and universal as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath.” The Waiting Room is a riveting look behind the doors of a public hospital’s overtaxed emergency room in Oakland, California. A poignant blend of humor and drama, the film offers a raw, intimate and ultimately uplifting look at the struggle and determination of one community and one hospital coping with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care landscape marked by historic economic and political dysfunction. The Waiting Room is an eloquent and urgent anthem of the power of our collective humanity to meet the greatest challenges of our time. This verite documentary runs approx 81 minutes.

Discussion, as always, follows the viewing of the film.  Please bring whatever you wish to eat.  We will offer a snack, not lunch.                                                                 

           Hosted by:

          Advocates for Social Justice of UUCSR                                                                                                    

INITIATIVES AND PROPOSITIONS

PLEASE NOTE:   We will meet in room 545 NOT the Board Room.

A team of folk from THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS will explain the  Initiatives and Propositions on the November 6th election ballot.  They will be prepared to answer your questions.  Please join us in room 545 right after the 11 AM service.

Hopefully, you will have received your sample ballot before this event.  You may wish to bring it with you in case you want to make some notes in it.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA

ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS:

Your Film Project has chosen “SICKO” by Michael Moore as our kick-off film for our 2018 – 2019 series. Throughout the year we will present films addressing the following issues, suggested by you in our recent survey:

PHYSICAL HEALTH,/MENTAL HEALTH/HEALTH CARE/LONGEVITY/
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/CHOICES IN DYING/ DISABILITY RIGHTS

“SICKO”, a 2007 documentary, explores health care in the U.S., focusing on the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Throughout this film, you will be shaking your head, sometimes in disbelief and often in outrage as Michael Moore offers comparisons between the profiteering, non-universal U.S. system of healthcare with the non-profit, universal healthcare systems of Cuba, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France.

Discussion, as always, follows the viewing of the film. Please bring whatever you wish to eat. We will offer a snack, not lunch. This is a full-length film, running for 123 minutes. We hope you will be able to plan your afternoon to include the entire film. You’ll not want to miss any of the segments.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA 

ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS:
Note New Time:  After the 10 AM Service 

TOMORROW

 Filmmakers:  Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion

Grand Finale for the Environmental Justice/ Climate Change Film Project Series for 2017-2018 in the Board Room

We’ve covered so many areas of concern and what we need now are more Solutions!  This 2015 film, “Tomorrow: take concrete steps to a sustainable future” is an inspiring documentary that presents  already existing solutions. Even better, these are really effective ways that thousands of local people are making themselves and their towns more sustainable and more resilient to global changes we’re seeing now and those ahead.  Filmmakers Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion travel to 10 countries throughout the world to highlight people who are making a difference in the fields of food, energy, finance, democracy, and education. Their ideas and examples make Tomorrow one of the most essential and unexpectedly inspirational experiences of our time.

Discussion follows viewing of the film.
Please bring whatever you wish to eat.  We provide snacks, not lunch.