It might say a lot about a person what tense she’d discuss “The Fight for Free Speech in America”: past, present, or future? Chris Finan has written a history of the fight, and thinks the big battles are just starting. He’ll explain at the ACLU of Indiana 2008 Annual Student & Membership Conference.
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program represents an innovative strategy for addressing the many social problems reinforced by cycles of incarceration including providing inmates with access to higher education and engaging university students in a deeper questioning of issues of crime and justice “behind the walls.”
If you have been eager to learn how to construct a pipebomb, it might be a good idea to learn how the the good guys are going to track you down afterwards.
Pastor Thomas L. Brown will join Valerie Masumbuko, cabinet attaché in the Belgian Federal Ministry of Public Service and Public Enterprises, Brussels/Belgium, to break the silence on violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Masumbuko will discuss the true victims of the deadliest war ever recorded in Africa and the ravaging effects of rape and other brutality after the seven years of fighting ended.
The Indiana Hebrew Congregation’s Block Forum presents Mia Farrow, acclaimed actress and humanitarian activist. Farrow has starred in more than 40 movies, including such classics as “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Great Gatsby” and “Hannah and Her Sisters;” as well as serving as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
The theme for this intriguing production of Julius Caesar: “Want Change?, So Did They.” Performed in a cemetary, in an election year … this should be good.
In spring’s Indianapolis International Film Festival, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo” won Provocate’s Erik Parker Social Justice Award. Now another film, “Fighting the Silence: Sexual Violence against Women,” shows a different perspective on this social trauma. More perspective are better, we need to figure out solutions. Maybe Burundian Valerie Masumbuko can help.
A lot of us are asking that these days.
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Experience a critical discussion of the challenges and achievements of urban renewal and social change in major American cities. A bipartisan panel of leaders, each with a demonstrated commitment to effective leadership and public service, will individually address current issues, strategies and solutions within their respective communities.
At a stage of personal crisis in his life, a young police agent discovers a strange portal that leads him to a parallel reality where he comes to understand that his life is a film that he can change.
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
