tony kushner's angels in america has been made into a 2 part movie to be shown on hbo in december. (http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/) it's directed by mike nichols (who's afraid of virginia woolf) and is sposed to be amazing (http://www.msnbc.com/news/990683.asp)

8 of samuel beckett's plays were filmed for the pbs stage on screen series. (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/stageonscreen/) maybe one day they'll show it again

matthew barney's the cremaster cycle (http://www.cremaster.net/) will be playing at the george eastman house in rochester in december. then it'll play at the market arcade in feb 2004.

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from united for peace and justice (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/):

"tucked away in Bush's $87 billion dollar spending bill for Iraq is an $8.5 million dollar item for police and security operations against the FTAA protests in Miami!"

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This Thursday, November 13, the Miami City Commission will vote on an ordinance to change current regulations that govern parades, demonstrations, rallies and assemblies with the purpose of stifling the voices of the thousands of people - students, union members, activists, farmers and many other individuals - from around the Americas and the world who will be coming to South Florida to engage in peaceful, permitted protests at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial to be held next week in Miami.

An earlier version of the ordinance was thwarted by strong public opposition. While some of the most outrageous provisions have been eliminated since the original ordinance was first introduced, serious restrictions on First Amendment rights remain. The ordinance interferes with people’s constitutionally guaranteed rights of association and expression by providing extremely broad, but vague definitions of "public assembly" and "parade" and then subjecting such gatherings to an array of new prohibitions. The end result: if the ordinance is passed, police will have enormous discretion in their application of the law, which will give them free reign to discriminate against those who are visibly voicing their opposition to the FTAA.

The undemocratic nature of this ordinance is in keeping with the undemocratic nature of the FTAA itself. Under the rules that would be imposed by the FTAA, decision-making power on economic, social and cultural policies, as well as national development plans will be transferred to transnational corporations and investors and away from local communities.

Send a fax:(http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=239&source=31)

What -- Anti-FTAA Rally
Where -- Niagara Square, Downtown Buffalo
When -- Saturday November 22nd Noon

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the
expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to every country in in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, except Cuba. . NAFTA has devestated communities throughout North America, including Buffalo. If you think NAFTA has been a disaster for working families and the environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the FTAA will be far worse.

On November 22nd, labor, environmental, human rights, and peace groups will rally together in solidarity with thousands of people who will be protesting the FTAA in Miami and the School of the Americas (SOA) in Georgia to stop this "Race to the Bottom" and to affirm that Another World Is Possible!

for more on the FTAA see
www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa/

for more on the SOA, see www.soawatch.org