- This weekend, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center in Seaside will show that they don’t just talk about it, they be about it. On Saturday, Nov. 12, 1-3pm, they open Fort Ord Wildlands: Love Songs, an art show by a trio of activist artists committed to protecting Fort Ord for locals, visitors and future generations to commune with nature. Kathy Bell has focused on bobcats since the ’90s because of their “relaxed, independent and inquisitive” natures.Paola Fiorelle Berthoin has been an artist champion for watersheds and rivers through paintings and writing. Elizabeth Murray has shown her love of the outdoors, with youth access in mind, through paintings and photographs. 899-7322.
- Later that same Saturday, at 4:30pm, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center shows the new documentary by Ava DuVernay, director of the hit filmSelma, called 13th. It’s about the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that grants freedom for all, stating, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States… ” That little clause, “except as a punishment for crime,” is the loophole by which the powers-that-be have kept slavery alive by demonizing and targeting black people (stop and frisk, court economic hardship, racial profiling, etc). DuVernay enlists Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Van Jones and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to break down 150 years of the prison-industrial complex. It’s on Netflix, which produced it. But see it today, with panelists Taina Vargas-Edmond(Coalition for Jail Reform in Monterey County), Lamont Joyce (The Village Project), Renaie Hill (Essie Justice Group) and moderator Thomas F. Lee(Restorative Justice Partners) who will speak on it. $5-$10 suggested donation (no one turned away). 899-7322.
- The next day, 2pm Sunday, Nov. 13, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center screens Andrea Kalin’s Prince Among Slaves, which sounds like the premise to a far-fetched comedy – with a dystopian ending. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, a Muslim prince, is captured in a 1788 military campaign in Guinea, sold to British slave traders, transported from Africa to New Orleans, where he becomes a slave to Thomas Foster’s tobacco plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, for the next 40 years. The plot may ring back to 12 Years a Slave and Coming to America, but this is a woefully true story that won the Best Documentary Award at the 2007 American Black Film Festival. A discussion follows. $5-$10 suggested donation (no one turned away). 899-7322.
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