First Friday Film Night "Eternal Harvest” Fri. Dec. 2, 2022
Dec 2, 2022 18:20:32 GMT -8
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Post by topanga peace on Dec 2, 2022 18:20:32 GMT -8
Online event
The Topanga Peace Alliance 211th Consecutive First Friday Film Night Presents the new documentary
First Friday Film Night "Eternal Harvest”
This Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Zoom Opens at 7:15 pm, Program at 7:30 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Link for Friday: us02web.zoom.us/j/86311256046?pwd=VFFIdGl2QmN0ZExVL3hCMWdiamE1UT09
First Friday Film Night "Eternal Harvest”
This Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Zoom Opens at 7:15 pm, Program at 7:30 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Link for Friday: us02web.zoom.us/j/86311256046?pwd=VFFIdGl2QmN0ZExVL3hCMWdiamE1UT09
Meeting ID: 863 1125 6046
Passcode: Peace2022
Passcode: Peace2022
"Eternal Harvest carefully weaves archival war footage, stories of survivors, and the collective commitment of Laotians and a handful of Americans to clear bombs from Laos.…Compelling us to hold the US responsible and demand more clearance funding, Eternal Harvest keeps the focus on a forgotten legacy of America's war in Laos." Davorn Sisavath
This Friday, December 2nd, the Topanga Peace Alliance hosts a showing of the new feature length documentary about the legacy of America’s bombing of Laos and the estimated eighty million unexploded bombs (“UXOs”) still threatening the Lao population. It shows dramatically how the consequences of war do not end when the battles stop.
Between 1964 and 1973, in an offshoot of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military dropped 4 billion pounds of explosives on Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita on the planet. Up to 30 percent of those bombs did not detonate, and they remain in the Laotian soil today as UXO, unexploded ordnance. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and injured in UXO accidents since the war officially ended.
ETERNAL HARVEST introduces Laotians who lived through the bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today. While many Laotians work daily to clear bombs from their country, only a handful of Americans have ever joined them. One, Jim Harris, is a retired school principal from Wisconsin. He has returned year after year for more than 20 years—to atone for the incredible devastation committed by our government.
We will open the Zoom event at around 7:15. The main program will begin at 7:30. We will enable video so that we can optionally see each other if you choose to enable your camera. Before the program, we will have announcements regarding upcoming events, actions for peace and social justice. After the films we will be talking further about what we can do to support the efforts to clear the UXO in Laos.
This Friday, December 2nd, the Topanga Peace Alliance hosts a showing of the new feature length documentary about the legacy of America’s bombing of Laos and the estimated eighty million unexploded bombs (“UXOs”) still threatening the Lao population. It shows dramatically how the consequences of war do not end when the battles stop.
Between 1964 and 1973, in an offshoot of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military dropped 4 billion pounds of explosives on Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita on the planet. Up to 30 percent of those bombs did not detonate, and they remain in the Laotian soil today as UXO, unexploded ordnance. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and injured in UXO accidents since the war officially ended.
ETERNAL HARVEST introduces Laotians who lived through the bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today. While many Laotians work daily to clear bombs from their country, only a handful of Americans have ever joined them. One, Jim Harris, is a retired school principal from Wisconsin. He has returned year after year for more than 20 years—to atone for the incredible devastation committed by our government.
We will open the Zoom event at around 7:15. The main program will begin at 7:30. We will enable video so that we can optionally see each other if you choose to enable your camera. Before the program, we will have announcements regarding upcoming events, actions for peace and social justice. After the films we will be talking further about what we can do to support the efforts to clear the UXO in Laos.
Topanga Peace Alliance