Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9OIXr005512; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:33:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:33:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <F1008sj6TPa3UcXzxxQ00004cbc@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Townview Learning Center" <townview_learning_center@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:633] Fwd: Possible resource for LAMP folks and others X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 4154 Lines: 110 The following information tells us about a tremendous resource!! Please visit their website and see how they can serve you, and how you can advance their work. More than 'learning about,' we focus on 'learning to be....' Townview_Learning_Center@hotmail.com Kenneth Libby, Educational Coordinator 320 Hall of Fame Drive Knoxville, TN 37915 865-523-9309 fax:865-521-6183 ` supported by a HUD Neighborhood Networks grant ` and by Knoxville's Wood Properties, Inc. >From: Grayfred B Gray <grayfred.gray@juno.com> >Subject: Possible resource for LAMP folks and others >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:31:59 -0700 > >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:21:24 -0400 >From: Joanne Hartman <jhartman@nafcm.org> >Subject: educational resources that teach tolerance and an appreciation >for cultural diversity > >Dear Friends, > >The staff and Board of Directors at Women Make Movies would like to express >our deepest sympathies to the families, friends and victims of the >September 11th tragedy. Although our office is located just a few blocks >away from the site, we were fortunate not to have lost any of our immediate >family of co-workers and loved ones. > >As the nation collectively responds to this horrific event, we have become >increasingly concerned with the violence against Arab-Americans and >Muslims, as well as the alarming trend toward racial profiling. We believe >it is of the utmost importance to sensitize people about the culture and >traditions of the Arab and Muslim community, both abroad and in the United >States, in order to avoid further prejudicial attacks and denouncements of >any one ethnic group. To accomplish this feat, we believe it is vital to >share educational resources that teach tolerance and an appreciation for >cultural diversity. > >At Women Make Movies we have chosen to contribute to this effort by >providing FREE rentals on a selected group of titles on the Middle East and >Arab culture through December 31, 2001. Also included in this offer are >two documentaries on the US Japanese internment camps of WWII, entitled >Whose Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway? and History and Memory. We've >added these titles in order to provide a historical reference to an episode >in US history when prejudice and fear dictated behavior and policy in this >country. > >It is our sincere hope that this gesture will assist to humanize the >Arab-American and Muslim community and demonstrate the vast sources of >alternative educational media available to the viewing public. > >We kindly ask that those who accept this offer pay the minimum shipping and >handling fees. To find out more about the films, please go to our >www.wmm.com website. > >Please refer to the special ordering instructions to place your order. > > > Conversations Across the Bosphorus Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt > >Don't Ask Why > >Four Women of Egypt > >Hidden Faces > >History and Memory > >In My Father's House > >Iraqi Women: Voice From Exile > >Lebanon: Bits and Pieces > >My Heart is my Witness > >My Home, My Prison > >My Journey, My Islam > >Place Called Home, A > >State of Danger, A > >Tajik Woman, A > >Veiled Hope, The > >Whose Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway? > >--------------------------------------------- > >About Women Make Movies > >Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts >organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and >exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. Women >Make Movies was established in 1972 to address the under representation and >misrepresentation of women in the media industry. As the leading >distributor of women's films and videotapes in North America, Women Make >Movies works with organizations and institutions that utilize >non-commercial, educational media in their programs. For more information >on the organization and to look at our catalogue of more than 400 films and >videotapes, please go to our www.wmm.com website. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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