Dallas Air America Radio groups, Ft Worth Code Pink, FunAsia and KXEB 910 am are pleased to present a very special event on Friday the 20th of January 2006. We will screening the film Winter Soldier and following the 90 minute film we will have a special presentation and discussion led by one of the veterans featured in the film, Scott Camil.
http://www.dallasairamerica.org/wintersoldier/main.htm Chronicling the extraordinary Winter Soldier Investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Detroit during the winter of 1971, Winterfilm Collective shot footage of more than 125 Vietnam veterans (including a very young John Kerry) that gave eyewitness testimony to war crimes and atrocities they either participated in or witnessed. Virtually unreported by the media, WINTER SOLDIER is the only record of this historic turning point in American history. Shown at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals and lauded throughout Europe. Thirty-five years later, the veterans' courage in testifying and their desire to prevent further atrocities and regain their own humanity makes WINTER SOLDIER an unforgettable experience. The recent abuses of prisoners of Abu Ghraib, and in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo have sometimes been reported as unprecedented. The voices of the veterans in Winter Soldier attest that they were not.
Winter Soldier is an amazingly relevant film, not only because it details what American wars of “liberation” actually mean for the people being “liberated,” also because it gives us insight into the experiences of soldiers fighting in Iraq today.
Scott Camil is described in recent Washington Post newspaper article- Camil has become one of the film's most eloquent witnesses regarding the most shameful acts perpetrated on Vietnamese civilians by American forces -- acts that were either tacitly or explicitly considered standard operating procedure -- and the deep costs of those policies to soldiers in general and to him personally.
Winter soldier web site -
http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/ (Winterfilm Collective, USA, 1971, 16mm> 95 min.)
Funasia theatre is located 1210 E. Beltline Rd. Richardson, TX (map) 75081
For more information contact :
Nancy Cunningham cunningb@flash.net Dallas Air America Group 214 498- 4020 cell
Dennis Meeks DMeeks@bmpradio.com Air America Radio 910 AM 972 375- 3718 cell
Winter soldier links
The film web page -
http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/ Winter Soldier Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Soldier_Investigation Winter soldier testimony -
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html Seasoned veteran -
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall01/Kahl/default.html Washington Post -December 9, 2005
Viet Nam Veterans against the war-
http://www.vvaw.org/ Why are they called "winter soldiers " ??
In the winter of 1776, Thomas Paine wrote "These are the time that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Seeing themselves as the "winter soldiers" paraphrasing Thomas Paine, whose battle was, in part, to make their experiences common knowledge to the American.
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