Free Film Screening and Los Angeles County Premiere:
March 7th, 2008 at 8:00pm
"Our Land, Our Life: The Struggle for Western Shoshone Land Rights"**
Location: California State University, Long Beach
University Theater
(Parking Lot 7 - South end of campus off 7th St.)
This free film screening is co-sponsored by the following: California State University, Long Beach's American Indian Studies and Film and Electronic Arts Departments; Center for the First Amendment Studies ( http://www.csulb.edu/~crsmith/1amendment.html); KPFK (http://www.kpfk.org) FM 90.7 Los Angeles, FM 98.7 Santa Barbara and American Indian Airwaves. For more information call (562) 434-4892, email at: burnt.swamp@verizon.net, or visit www.kpfk.org. KPFK is the sole media sponsor of this event.
**This 2007 multi, award-winning documentary, "Our Land, Our Life," directed by George and Beth Gage, details Western Shoshone Elders Carrie and Mary Dann's 30-year struggle to protect their traditional ways of life and ancestral homelands from mining degradation in a battle that went to the United States Supreme Court and beyond to the United Nations. Trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2N9-n-ka0
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