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  • ATA Staff Meeting

    Feb 1st.2010 Monday 7 pm -9 pm all volunteer meeting.
    here are the agenda items for the next ATA meeting (all-staff meeting!)

    1) Tshirts. Are there any tshirts? Can we make more? Can we sell them?
    2) Open Screening. How did the open screening on the 17th go? Ideas to make
    open screening better?
    3) Film Fest intern. This years film/video fest is looking for
    volunteers/interns. Anyone interested? Any ideas?
    4) Cleaning day. Let’s have regular cleaning days!
    5) Dump. Can we take stuff from the back room to the dump? Who can help?
    When will we do it? or should we just board up the back room.
    6. Clarity of Volunteer responsibilities : all volunteers ability
    or inability to sign up on the calendar for benefit of all the
    volunteers
    .Volunteers responsibility to cover two screenings a month .
    What is so hard about signing on to the calendar?
    any ideas about volunteer duties.
    7. can we have a regular screening night for volunteers to have
    conversations about various topics? programming shows,etc etc.
    8. i can’t think of any more , oh we have five new ata
    volunteers so come
    out an meet them.
    9. If you can’t make it , try to come to the next one.

  • Taha Belal: Play It Again

    ryan_giggs_1386537cOn April 14th, 1999, Manchester United and Arsenal played against each other for a place in the final of the Football Association Challenge (FA) Cup. While 30,233 fans watched, Manchester United took the lead in the 17th minute through David Beckham (1-0). At the start of the second half, Man U’s Welsh wizard Ryan Giggs came on to replace Jesper Blomqvist. After 69 minutes, Dennis Bergkamp put Arsenal level (1-1). Later in the game, Roy Keane got a red card and sent off for a foul on Arsenal’s Marc Overmars. In injury time Arsenal was awarded a penalty kick, but Dennis Bergkamp’s shot was saved by Peter Schmeichel. Still level after 90 minutes and allowance for stoppages, the match went into extra time.

    In the 110th minute — in the second half of extra time — Giggs intercepted the ball from a pass by Patrick Viera at half field. He went on to skip past four Arsenal defenders before shooting the ball past David Seaman and into the goal. It would go down in history as a phenomenal play, a moment of sublime beauty.

    Taha Belal is an artist living and working in San Francisco.

  • CALL+RESPONSE

    call * responseCALL+RESPONSE is a documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.

    In the film, Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing. Several prominent musicians participate in the movie through their original songs.

    info : http://www.callandresponse.com/

    The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM/USNC) was launched in June of 2009.  UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and it works on women’s rights and development issues across the globe.  We are committed to expanding support and raising funds within the United States for UNIFEM.  Through our efforts we hope to encourage ourselves and others to become involved in advancing women’s rights around the world.

    If interested in learning more, please send us an email at sanfranbayarea@unifem-usnc.org.

    *About the Film Series:*

    This monthly film series will look at women’s rights and development issues. Each month, a film that touches on one of the four themes of UNIFEM (The United Nations Development Fund for Women) will be selected.  These four themes are:

    – enhancing women’s economic security and rights,
    – ending violence against women,
    – reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and
    – advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states.

    After each film, a discussion will be held that focuses on the issue being highlighted and what local Bay Area organizations are doing to address that issue.