s you figured out by now, we are in our every other week winter series schedule, alternating with a radical GDI feature at the High Street Barn. The week after this film we will show the final Guerilla Drive-In film of our winter series, Tuvalu.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Radical Film Series Presents

The links in this story indicate how the true story of the continuing war in Iraq was silenced. After the war against Saddam Hussein ended on May 1st, 2003 what ensued was a war against the Iraqi people for the sake of military contractors in the US.

Students for Peace and Justice was a club formed three years ago by a group of students who wanted to conduct random acts of kindness on campus and in the community. After 9/11 and the following US military actions they saw a need for a student walk-out protesting the decision of going to war with Iraq. After that it became a club that concentrated primarily on resisting war.

A press release and schedule of Iraq Week @ USC.

While war is shredding shrapnel into the citizens of virtually every other continent on the planet, we here in La-La land are busy bopping our heads to a new kind of politics. As exemplified by the February 25th Bay Area Tsunami Benefit concert, such forms of vicarious involvement present the opportunity to "get active" from abroad while maintaining contemporary comfort levels and capitalist consumption patterns. Though such acts no doubt play a crucial role in the raising of awareness, funds, and potential networking efforts, it is crucial to maintain a critical position on the final fallout they do or do not engender. As we groove our way towards new understandings of "activism" and "involvement," we must remain reflective of the extent to which such acts can become limiting when understood as an ends in and of themselves instead of being used as a starting point for more long-term, sustainable efforts.