[Mitai-announce] Movie this thur

[Elan Pavlov]

Hi,
Dud to circumstances beyond our control Jung will not be shown this week. 
Instead "the war room" about the Clinton campaign will be shown if you 
want to see that.

Elan
----
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was 
sorry that he was not more sorry.
      - Samuel Butler


---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:40:38 
-0400 From: Mridul Chowdhury <mridul at ksg.harvard.edu> To: elan at MIT.EDU 
Subject: RE: AMnesty and movies

So sorry, Elan.

This week we are screening "The War Room" on Clinton's political campaign
...

mridul

-----Original Message-----
From: elan at MIT.EDU [mailto:elan at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:35 PM
To: mridul at ksg.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: AMnesty and movies

Too  late. is there an alternative movie?

Elan
----
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.  This is the sport,
the luxury,
special to the intellectual man.
       --Jose Ortega y Gasset

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Mridul Chowdhury wrote:

> Hi Elan,
>
> I am sorry for the confusion - apparently, this movie cannot be found in
any
> of the libraries and not on Netflix either. We are having to postpone
> showing this movie to a later date. Please do not circulate announcement I
> sent last night. I am very sorry about the confusion.
>
> Mridul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elan at MIT.EDU [mailto:elan at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 10:29 PM
> To: mridul at ksg.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: AMnesty and movies
>
> Hi,
> I don't see any attachment.
>
> Elan
> ----
> To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.  This is the sport,
> the luxury,
> special to the intellectual man.
>      --Jose Ortega y Gasset
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Mridul Chowdhury wrote:
>
>> Hey Elan,
>>
>> The first movie that you wanted to co-sponsor is coming up this Thursday.
> I
>> am forwarding you the announcement for dissemination at MIT. Thanks,
>>
>> Mridul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elan at MIT.EDU [mailto:elan at MIT.EDU]
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:45 PM
>> To: mridul at ksg.harvard.edu
>> Cc: massimiliano_santini at ksg08.harvard.edu;
>> meriem_ait_ali_slimane at ksg08.harvard.edu
>> Subject: RE: AMnesty and movies
>>
>> Hi,
>> I went over the list and I think Amnesty can comfortably publicize the
>> first three movies in Nov as well as Pinochets children. MIT amnesty can
>> put up posters around MIT as well as send these movies out to our mailing
>> list (several hundred strong). It is also possible to put these on the
MIT
>> events calendar (events.mit.edu) which potentially reaches a large
>> audience. MIT amnesty also mentors the amnesty chapter in O'Bryant high
>> school and we can publicize there as well. Our movie events at MIT
usually
>> draw around 60 people but given the travel I'd assume that this would be
>> much reduced.
>>
>> I'm also active in a group called "Movies that matter". this group is
>> much smaller with a mailing list of around 60 people but I would be
>> comfortable announcing all of the movies to this group. These movie
>> meetings are much smaller with around 15 people attending.
>>
>> As for funding, I'm afraid that MIT amnesty received a quarter of our
>> requested funding. The MTM *might* have some extra money but given that
>> our entire budget is around 200/semester any extra is not really going to
>> help:( The only advantage of having Amnesty officially cosponsor is that
>> we can publish these events on the northeastern amnesty calendar as well.
>>
>> Elan
>> ----
>> Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
>> It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to
pass
>> it on.
>> 	- Terry Pratchett
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mridul Chowdhury wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Elan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your email.
>>>
>>> I attach the list of films that we are planning to screen this semester
> at
>>> KSG as part of an International Development Film Series. Many of these
>>> movies are human rights related. If you would like to co-sponsor any of
>>> these films, we would love to have you on board. Co-sponsorship
basically
>>> means publicity among your members and affiliates and help with buying
>> food
>>> and drinks if you have funds - if not, it's OK.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mridul
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: elan at MIT.EDU [mailto:elan at MIT.EDU]
>>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:50 PM
>>> To: mridul at ksg.harvard.edu
>>> Subject: AMnesty and movies
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Here is my email lets talk details:)
>>>
>>> Elan
>>> ----
>>> Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
>>> It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to
> pass
>>> it on.
>>> 	- Terry Pratchett
>>>
>>
>>
>
>