Janice Rice on "Picturing Indians...." ; Scott Smith and John Fromstein on the WI Film fest-featured "Being Bucky"; Noam Chomsky series preview

On the March 29 show:



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* Guest Janice Rice tells us about the book, the book, Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett’s Wisconsin Dells, and an upcoming panel discussion this Wednesday April 1 at 7:00 pm in Room L 160 of the UW-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art. Janice Rice is a longtime UW-Madison librarian, who works out of the main undergraduate library, Helen C. White. She is also a leader in the Ho-Chunk nation, and a frequent spokesperson, in addition to her work with numerous civil rights and social justice-related groups, locally, statewide, and nationwide.

Editor's note: Just a few days following this broadcast, Janice Rice received recognition as the University of Wisconsin System's "Woman of Color of the Year."

* Scott Smith (director) and John Fromstein (producer) of BEING BUCKY, a locally made film about the kids who are the Bucky mascot. The film contains lots of local flavor and a good broad appeal. In fact, the film sold out in about six seconds after tickets went on sale. For more information on the Wisconsin Film Festival, April 2-5, please go to this link.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

* Note that "Madcity Chickens" (see blog post below from a month ago) has now been released on DVD! Congratulations, Tashai and Robert. For more information, go to the Tarazod Films webpage.

Another exciting series of events beginning next Sunday centers around the Tuesday April 7th appearance of Noam Chomsky:

On Sunday, April 5, Dr. Rita Giacaman (pronounced "Jackaman") of Bir Zeit University in Ramallah, Palestine, will speak on "Health Conditions and Medical Services Under Seige: 2006-2009". This is the first event in the spring speaker series "Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy" sponsored by the UW Middle East Studies Department and numerous others. This is from 1:30 - 3:30 pm at First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive. Free and open to the public. For more information call 265-6583 or visit www.mideast.wisc.edu.

Rita Giacaman is the wife of Mustafa Barghouthi, independent member of the Palestinian parliament and independent candidate for President in the last elections. She is a public health expert and will detail the catastrophic effects of the occupation on the health and well-being of average Palestinians, which has just been meticulously documented by the prestigious British Medical journal The Lancet in their March issue. This is the same journal that used modern epidemiological methods to come up with the estimate of hundreds of thousands of extra civilian deaths in Iraq as a result of the U.S. war and occupation...the Palestine study has been even more controversial than the Iraq study, with much hysterical criticism and attempts to suppress the results. (This will be the topic of the panel discussion on Monday night)

Announcements for Sunday, April 5:

On Monday, April 6 at 3:30 pm, Dr. Graham Watt of the University of Glasgow, Scotland will speak on "Human Rights, Dignity and Medical Aid for Palestine". This is part of the spring speaker series "Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy" sponsored by the UW Middle East Studies Department and numerous others. This will be in Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive on the UW-Madison campus. Free and open to the public. For more information call 265-6583 or visit www.mideast.wisc.edu.

On Monday, April 6 at 7:30 pm there will be a panel discussion titled “‘Balance’ and Intimidation: Silencing Debate on Palestine – the20Lancet, March 2009 & other case studies” featuring Noam Chomsky, Dr. Graham Watt and Rita Giacaman (pronounced Jackaman). This is part of the spring speaker series "Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy" sponsored by the UW Middle East Studies Department and numerious others. This will be in Anderson Auditorium at Edgewood College, 1000 Edgewood College Drive, Madison. Free and open to the public. For more information call 265-6583 or visit www.mideast.wisc.edu.

On Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 pm Noam Chomsky will deliver a lecture on the role of US Foreign Policy, Israeli Security and Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This will be at the Orpheum Theater, 216 State Street. Tickets are available at the Orpheum, Rainbow Bookstore, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice and Lakeside Printing Co-op. This is the final event in the spring speaker series "Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy" sponsored by the UW Middle East Studies Department and numerous others. For more information call 265-6583 or visit www.mideast.wisc.edu.