MY Place Oakland World Premiere – October 6
October 2, 2009
CFI Education’s filmmaking/storytelling project MY Place Oakland completed filming in August. Post production is done and the “world premiere” will be held at the Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley on October 6. This event is by invitation only.
Filmmakers will be presented with a DVD copy of all the films finished in the project.
The workshops were facilitated by the staff from the Center for Digital Storytelling.
MY Place Oakland participants (left to right): Curtys Taylor, Nae Nae Smith, Kamantai Fungula, Kash Gaines, De’Mario Williams, Persiah Alcorn, Brijanai Collins, Corey Skinner, Jr.
D Tour by Jim Granato
October 1, 2009
CFI Education is proud to be a part of Community Cinema, a ground-breaking public education and civic engagement initiative featuring monthly screenings of films from Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens.
Pat Spurgeon has big dreams to make it as an indie rock musician. Just as his career is about to take off, he suffers an incredible setback when one of his kidneys begins to fail. Follow Pat on his emotional search for a living organ donor. But can he balance his health with a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle?
D Tour director Jim Granato spoke to Tamalpais High school students on September 28 at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center.
CFI Education Director John Morrison (left) with students from Tamalpais high school and D Tour director Jim Granato (center).
New Movie Lab: How to Get It Done
September 4, 2009
NEW MOVIE LAB
How to Get It Done
Saturday, October 10, 2:00pm
Location: The Marin Youth Center
(Third Street between A and B Streets)
Five working young filmmakers discuss how they get their films made and what young filmmakers need to know about the perils and pitfalls of a film’s afterlife in the festival and distribution markets. There will be film clips and ample time for questions and answers.
Local filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller (Touching Home) and Michael Eisenmenger, executive director of the new Community Media Center of Marin will be our anchor panelists. Three young international directors from the festival will round out this multi-faceted presented.
Click here for the flyer (PDF).
3rd Annual CFI Teacher Education Seminar
August 19, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 8:15 am to 3:00 pm
at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
Downtown San Rafael, 4th Street between A and B Streets
Seminar Admission is FREE — Your school site must pay for a substitute
The Most Dangerous Man
Jermal
On September 10, there will be a combined sneak preview/teacher seminar of selected Mill Valley Film Festival offerings during the Screenings for Schools program. On the 10th, teachers will have the opportunity to preview clips, learn more about the Mill Valley Film Festival Student Screening selections, and collaborate with other educators around making the festival come alive for our students as part of our curriculum. The CFI Education Teacher Outreach Team consists of Bay Area teachers, SFSU professor Mark Phillips, and CFI Education Director John Morrison, who together plan opportunities for students and teachers to use film effectively in their classes.
Some of the film clips presented at the teacher seminar include Horse Boy, the story of a family’s journey as they travel through Mongolia in search of a mysterious shaman to heal their autistic son; Jermal, an Indonesian film about a young boy on an Oil Derrick searching for his father; Mine, a documentary about saving animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary about daniel Ellsberg; Skin, the story of a dark0skinned girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era; Zombie Girl: the Movie; a documentary about a 12 year old girl who makes zombie films; and Music for the Revolution, a documentary detailing the cohesion of music and the civil rights movement.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the California Film Institute, see the films with other teachers from a variety of district and disciplines, and get your fix of good film in advance of the Mill Valley Film Festival. Your school will need to provide a substitute for the day since you will be out of class. Please RSVP to Michael Levinson, preferably via email at mlvenson@tamdistrict.org or by phone at his classroom at Tamalpais High School, 415-388-3292 ext. 5029.
Mill Valley Film Festival Screenings for Schools Oct. 8 through Oct. 18With just an RSVP from interested teachers, the education program of the California Film Institute hosts 6-8 screenings of Festival films during the school day selected to appeal of students and be relevant of a variety of courses. As schedules permit, directors, writers or actors will be present to answer questions from the students following the film.
Looking forward to seeing you!!
CFI Education Teacher Outreach: John Morrison, Mark Phillips, Abigail Levine, Emily Satterstrom, Bettina Hughes, Alan Charne, Mary Jane Jones, Michael Levinson
Click here for the flyer (PDF).
MY Place in Oakland
August 19, 2009
MY Place Oakland participants: Kamantai Fungula, De’Mario Williams and CDS teacher Rasheed Ali.
MY Place, a CFI Education program promoting media literacy through the art of digital storytelling, recruited 8 youths to participate in the first Oakland MY Place workshop. The workshop was facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling with KTOP as the editing facilities partner.
The first day of the workshop consists of students and teachers getting to know each other through icebreakers and writing prompts. CDS teachers Gayle Nicholls-Ali, Rasheed Ali and Amy Hill helped the students writer their stories and record their voice-overs. Students brought photos and spent a day with CFI Education volunteers shooting short video clips of their neighborhoods to enhance their stories. The next day, the students spend their time editing their films using Final Cut Express. By the end of the workshop. participants leave with the basics of filmmaking and editing to share with the world their amazing stories.
Front L to R: Curtys Taylor, Shindozjanae Smith, Kamantai Fungula, Persia Alcorn and Brijanai Collins. Back L to R: Kash Gaines, De'Mario Williams and Corey Skinner, Jr.
A world-wide premiere of their films will be shown at the Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley in September. Family and friends of the filmmakers are invited to this special event.
Important aims of this program are to promote self-esteem and through their films, connect filmmakers to their community.
In April, MY Place workshops are held in Marin for the Canal Community and Marin City and in San Francisco with the Mission, Hunter’s Point and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
MY Place Films
August 3, 2009
After the jump are other incredible MY Place films. Please enjoy. Please click here for more films
My Place films “World Premiere”
May 29, 2009
CFI Education’s filmmaking/storytelling project My Place Marin and My Place San Francisco completed filming in April. Post production is done and the “world premieres” will be held for the Marin films at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael on June 1 at 4pm preceded by a reception for the filmmakers: (in the photo from left to right, back row first) Lead teacher Allison Myers, Tizyana Tiayara Michele Ford, Danielle Cox, Kevin Martinez, teacher aide Carrie, Ramona Polk, April Williams, teacher aide Laura.
My Place San Francisco will premiere at the 9th Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco June 10 at 4pm preceded by a reception.Two of the SF My Place filmmakers are below Elizabeth Tesoro (right) and Sean Williams (left).
Filmmakers will be presented with a DVD copy of all the films finished in the project. We encourage people to come and see these incredible and touching stories.
The workshops were facilitated by staff from the Center for Digital Storytelling.
New addition to the Program–Strategic Energy Innovations interactive exhibit in the active cinema room
(see below)
Environmental Youth Forum: Social Environmentalism
Where are the connections between promoting a green planet, social justice, eliminating poverty and war? A journey beyond the carbon footprint.
Dates: Thursday, May 21 and Wednesday, May 27
8:30AM to 12:30PM for films and panels
Place: The Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
Part of the CFI Green Initiative sponsored by
The forum will present some of the newest and best thinking about an active environmentalism as well as films that take a different, fresh approach to greening the planet. Expanded environmental concerns such as population, green jobs, green lending, and the issues surrounding “war litter” like unexploded bombs, land-mines and bomb craters that give rise to mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.
The other aspect of the forum will be a continuation of the “active cinema” project started by the Mill Valley Film Festival where audiences are given an immediate means for making social change through projects, face-to-face individual discussions with advocacy group members, and donations for micro-loan organizations. There will be a forum area where groups would be invited to come in and share their literature and discuss their missions informally.
Films will be shown on all three of the Smith Rafael Film Center screens staggered so students can pick and choose, mix and match subjects of films and panels.
Panelists for Thursday, May 21
Local Solutions for Global Problems
Angie Coiro (moderator) is currently hosting The Angie Coiro Show on Green 960AM, the San Francisco home of Air America. Mike Wallace, Martin Short, Calvin Trillin, Gloria Steinem — they’ve all sat for live, onstage interviews with Angie. Angie’s skill lies in creating an easy, flowing conversation, while keeping the guest at ease, the audience in hand, and a sharp eye on the clock. She can wrangle a contentious debate, as she did at Stanford University, when Rev. Lou Sheldon faced off with gay rights activist Evan Wolfson on the topic of same-sex marriage.
For 25 years, John Antonelli, in association with The Mill Valley Film Group, has been producing award-winning documentary films for theatrical distribution, cable TV, PBS, syndication, and for an impressive list of corporate clients. For the past six years, Antonelli has been producing, directing and writing segments for Global Focus: The New Environmentalists a half hour program narrated by Robert Redford that is broadcast on PBS stations, The Sundance Channel and in a number of international markets. It has won numerous awards at environmental film festivals worldwide.
Teryn Norris is a leading young writer, researcher, and policy advocate. In 2008, Teryn founded and directed the Breakthrough Fellows Program (a.k.a. Breakthrough Generation), a highly selective summer fellowship program with fifteen college graduates and undergraduates. Previously a Research Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, he co-authored “Fast, Clean, & Cheap: Cutting Global Warming’s Gordian Knot,” a study published in the Spring 2008 edition of the Harvard Law and Policy Review. He is co-author of the National Energy Education Act proposal, which has been featured by Mother Jones,San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Congressional testimony, and online interview. Teryn has worked as Chief Research Assistant to Dr. Steve H. Hanke, one of the world’s top monetary economists, as well as for the Sierra Club and Environment California, where he advocated and fundraised for the California Global Warming Solutions Act. Teryn studied economics and political science at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as Class President and led a successful campaign to establish a university-wide climate neutral energy policy.
Julia Rhee is a first generation movement builder and has been training students across the country on issues grounded in racial justice, anti-oppression, and building student power for the past seven years. She joined the Green For All team as their Youth Organizer to leverage youth leadership in the movement for eco-equity and brings youth work experience hailing from New York City, Oakland, CA and the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of Eugene Lang College of the New School, she is a proud alumnus of the only national progressive AAPI grassroots student organization, the National Asian American Student Conference (NAASCon) and the first Leadership Academy fellowship class for Young People For, YP4. She is currently the co-chair for the Bay Area Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Sharon Smith works with Earth Island Institute as Program Director for the New Leaders Initiative and Brower Youth Awards. These programs honor young environmental leaders in North America for their outstanding activism and achievements. She launched her career in environmental advocacy in 1999 with a year-long fellowship with Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing. Sharon graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1999 with dual degrees in Conservation and Resource Studies and Anthropology, and spent a year in the tropics studying medical anthropology and tropical forest ecology and conservation.
Lauren Thorpe has been organizing in this growing movement for climate action for over 3 years now. Her roots come from campus organizing at the University of New Hampshire where she created a green fund that has grown to provide financial backing for student initiatives to reduce the campus carbon footprint. From there she joined with the Sierra Student Coalition to organize the first 5-day march for climate solutions through the state of New Hampshire ending at the State House. She was the liaison to the presidential candidates during the national campaign Step It Up that organized hundreds of actions in all 50 states on Nov 4th. She went on to organize campaigns for the League of Conservation Voters and worked for the Obama Campaign in rural Vermont. She is currently the northern California global warming organizer for Greenpeace focusing on building power to get strong national climate legislation pass before the UN Climate negotiations in 2009.
Panelists for Wednesday, May 27
Global Concerns and How to Change the National Consciousness on the Environment
Alan Snitow (moderator) is an independent film producer and director based in Berkeley. His nationally broadcast films with co-director Deborah Kaufman include Thirst about community resistance to water privatization, Secrets of Silicon Valley about the downsides of Silicon Valley and high tech industries, and Blacks and Jews about inter-ethnic conflict. Snitow is a former KTVU news producer and KPFA News Director. He is a board member of the California Media Collaborative, a think tank developing the next generation of media to support reporting on state and local issues. He is also on the board of Food and Water Watch, a Washington-based policy group working on issues of management, ownership and control of natural resources and food safety. His book, Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water–with Deborah Kaufman and Michael Fox–was published by Jossey Bass in 2007.
Nancy McFadden is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation. She is responsible for managing the company’s federal, state and local government relations, and philanthropic and community initiatives, while helping guide its efforts to be a national environmental leader. McFadden served for eight years in the Clinton Administration as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore. The Washington Post named her one of the “go-to people” in the Clinton Administration for her significant record of accomplishment. She is a Bay Area native, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Foundation of California, the California Climate Action Registry, the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy, and the Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
Andrew Lyons is Vice President (West) of The HALO Trust USA. HALO is the world’s largest humanitarian landmine clearance organization, and currently fields 7,500 staff in nine countries. Andrew managed 2,800 mineclearance and bomb disposal staff in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007 as senior operations officer. Prior to that, he served two years in Angola as finance officer. He has also done field work in Mozambique, Kosovo, Colombia and Cambodia. He currently resides in San Francisco.
Weezie Yancey-Siegel is one of the four national founders of YouthGive, a national nonprofit growing the next generation of givers and global citizens. Weezie is YouthGive’s National Youth Coordinator and is a senior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, CA. She spent six months living in the Himalaya mountains of India where she attended the Woodstock School and was part of a student crew making a documentary on the role of women in village sustainability. In the summer of 2008, Weezie helped lead YouthGive’s Digital Story-Telling, Youth & Microfinance Trip to Africa, where nine teenage students went to learn about and document global poverty solutions that their African peers are working on. Weezie loves learning about youth around the world, who are doing amazing things to change their environment and solve local and global problems inspiring us all to act.
Patsy Northcutt, a Producer/Director/Editor, owns a film and video production company, Northcutt Productions and has been working as a filmmaker for over 25 years. She has produced, directed and edited a variety of short and long format environmental and social justice programs, focusing on creating cultural change in areas such as green building, our ecological footprint, species extinction, alternative transportation, green plans, the Natural Step, gay and lesbian civil rights, criminal justice and teen pregnancy prevention. Patsy produces and directs the 4 camera live satellite feed of the annual Bioneers conference and was closely involved in creating the Bioneers Free Speech TV series.
Jørgen Vos is Director of Product Management at Planet Metrics, a carbon emissions modeling company. He combines an in-depth understanding of traditional businesses and their markets with a deep awareness of sustainability, where his areas of specialization include strategic management, Ecological Footprinting, and environmental input-output analysis. He has an extensive background in global marketing and product management, including 10 years with Cisco Systems where he carried the global responsibility for a high-tech product line with $100M annual revenue. He has worked with and advised Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and national operators on communication technology choices, and has helped build financial models for startups in the carbon offset, solar energy, and biomass gasification fields, as has lead the analysis of the market opportunities and risks present for these companies. He has provided business consulting to several alternative energy start-up companies, to Global Footprint Network, was a founding member of DriveNeutral.org – an organization that offsets carbon emissions for individual car owners – and he is currently a board member of Presidio School of Management, one of the first business schools to focus exclusively on sustainability. He has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio School of Management in San Francisco.
The Films
Thirst Thursday, May 21, 8:50AM by Bay Area filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. Is water part of a shared “commons,” a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? Thirst tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions. Over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Each year, millions of children die of diseases caused by unsafe water. The numbers are increasing. These facts drive a debate in the opening scenes of Thirst at the 2003 Third World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan. Politicians, international bankers, and corporate executives gather to decide who will control global fresh water supplies.
The Greening of Southie Thursday, May 21, 8:50AM What happens when you try to build an all-green building in a conservative, blue collar community like South Boston. This often funny, but essentially enlightening film follows the project that is often stopped—or stymied– when closed minded construction crews and contractors start scratching their heads in disbelief. It’s a film with a very happy ending and a model of how to bring the Green message to socially and politically conservative working-class people. Just give them ownership in the process.
Three Short films on the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients Thursday, May 21, 9:00AM The Goldman Award short films profile Bangladesh (about the controversial process of ship breaking), Gabon (where a fearless activist has stood up against a Chinese corporation who want to turn an iconic waterfall into a hydroelectric dam) and Suriname (where the ancestors of esaped foreign slaves are fighting to protect their forests from being logged). Click here to view an interview of Maria Gunnoe, recipient of the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America. Also with The Chronicles of Lady Recycla and Captain Compost, a fun fantasy youth directed film about energy conservation, brought to life by Super Heroes and an Indie-rock band.
Addicted to Plastics Thursday, May 21, 9:30AM Plastics, seen as cheap and convenient substitutes for traditional packaging and building materials, have overtaken our world. But they are turning out to be anything but convenient. We are literally awash in non-degradable, non-compostable materials littering our streets and parks, clogging drain systems, cluttering our oceans and beaches, and killing millions of animals a year. Addicted to Plastic will play before a slide lecture from Marin’s Green Sangha.
Burning the Future: Coal in America Thursday, May 21, 9:30AM (featured at MVFF 2008) The new developments with fly ash and slurry ponds threatening homes in Appalachia was predicted by this moving film that goes into the homes of people living near these coal strip mines. The film is full of hope as local residents become activists not only for their own cause but the cause of the planet and global warming. The film features Maria Gunnoe, just awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
Recipes for Disaster Thursday, May 21, 10:05AM A family experiment, led by a rather obsessed dad, where the whole family goes on an “oil diet” for a year. The film is divided into chapters chronicling their efforts on a monthly basis. It’s not pretty. By the end though, it proves that mankind’s biggest challenge for the future is to overcome deep-rooted denial about our place in the world. Funny and thoughtful and “family friendly.”
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Thursday, May 21, 10:15AM is stunning essay on the 1990 peak oil crisis in Cuba, where the island’s isolation and oil dependence on the crumbling Soviet Union caused a complete break-down in energy supply and havoc to agriculture because of lack of petroleum based fertilizers. Cuba gives us a glimpse of a possible future. It shows how government and people can overcome their dependence on oil by a series of comparatively easy—but in the short term hard—steps to energy independence.
The Nuclear Comeback Wednesday, May 27, 9:00AM charts recent efforts to make nuclear energy environmentally friendly. With 27 nuclear power stations under construction around the world and 136 more to be commenced in the decade to come, Justin Pemberton’s film tours the planet’s most famous nuclear facilities to set out the arguments for both detractors and supporters. There is no commentary except for questions put to nuclear industry spokespeople and environmental scientsists, but the tour of Chernobyl is chilling enough.
Fuel Wednesday, May 27, 9:30AM is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney’s petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to “repower America” — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative. With appearances by Robert Kennedy Jr., Barbara Boxer, Sheryl Crow, Woody Harrelson, Julia Roberts, Larry David, Willy Nelson and Neil Young.
Bomb Harvest Wednesday, May 27, 10:10AM is a look inside the serious (though sometimes darkly comic) work of removing unexploded bombs and “bombies” that were left after the US carpet bombed Laos. These result ion thousands of deaths and missing limbs of children in particular and make it dangerous for rice farmers who still, 20 years after the war, find unexploded bombs in their rice paddies. An inside look at the overlooked environmental damage of “war litter. Roots of Peace works to unearth dangerous land-mines in war-torn countries and empower the local communities scarred by these inhumane weapons
New additions!
A special preview of the soon to be released
Earth Days, Wednesday May 27, 9:15AM
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement.Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone. This film will pre-empt Who Killed the Electric Car.
–Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Strategic Energy Innovation interactive exhibit, Wednesday and Thursday May 21 and 27, 8:30AM
Strategic Energy Innovation (SEI) is a nonprofit organization that helps empower schools and universities, small businesses, local governments, affordable housing agencies, and agricultural communities to reduce pollution and save money through clean energy and resource efficiency. SEI will have an interactive exhibit with a pledge board and a carbon footprint calculator in the Active Cinema Room.
Organizations for the Active Cinema Room
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Part of the CFI Green Intiative
Sponsored by
Upcoming Teacher Seminar
April 6, 2009
Teachers! Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 14th from 8:15AM to 3:00PM
Perspectives of the Middle East in Film
CFI (California Film Institute) Education
When: Thursday, May 14th from 8:15 to 3:00
Where: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center on 4th Street in
downtown San Rafael
There is no charge for this seminar
Join us for a day at the Smith Rafael Film Center to explore perspectives of the Middle East and how to integrate film into our classrooms. In the beautiful Smith Rafael Film Center, we will view film clips connecting to a variety of countries including but not limited to Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine. Guest speakers include Stephen Olsson, director of Sounds of the Soul, an homage to the Fez Festival of world music, Iranian producer Marjaneh Moghimi and Justine Shapiro, director of Promises, a documentary about Palestinian and Israeli children who dared to meet their neighbors, and Michele Mahde, director of the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco.
Highly engaging and multidisciplinary, these films and speakers provide an extraordinary opportunity for teachers to enrich curriculum and instruction for students. The CFI Education Teacher Outreach Team consists of Bay Area educators and CFI Education Director John Morrison, who together plan opportunities for students and teachers to use film effectively in their classes. The seminar is designed for teachers of any subject who want to in corporate the outstanding cinematic arts and a deeper exploration of the Middle East. Join us for a day of collaboration at the free seminar on May 14th.
This is a great opportunity to explore a region of the world through the lens of film, collaborate with other teachers from a variety of districts and disciplines, and learn more about the California Film Institute. You will need a substitute for the day since you will be out of class. Please RSVP to Michael Levinson, preferably via email at mlevinson@tamdistrict.org or by phone at his classroom at Tamalpais High School, 415-388-3292 ext. 5029. In the upcoming weeks, you can check for updates on the day’s program on the blog – cafilm.wordpress.com For an in progress agenda of the seminar, click here.
Looking forward to seeing you!!
CFI Education Teacher Outreach: John Morrison, Mark Phillips, Abigail Levine, Emily Satterstrom, Bettina Hughes, Mary Jane Jones, Salome Milstead, Susanne Maxwell, Mary Manulkin, Michael Levinson
Trailer for Slingshot Hip Hop, a film that braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
Van Jones speaking at Power Shift 2009
March 30, 2009
Click the image for Van Jones’ Keynote at Power Shift 2009
Van Jones is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress.
Power Shift is is American national youth summit in Washington, D.C. focused on global warming and climate change policy.
CFI Education is proud to have Julia Rhee, the Youth Organizer for Green for All, at CFI Education’s Environmental Youth Forum panel discussion on May 21, 2009.
For the previous post introducing CFI Education Environmental Youth Forum sponsored by PG&E, please click here.
