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5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival
A Benefit for Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
and NYC Coalition for Accountability Now

A report on the 2009 9/11 Film Festival and other events with photos is posted at


September 11th, 2009 –
Remembering, Questioning, Challenging
Continuity of Government

Wednesday Evening, 9/9/2009, we held the World Premiere of-

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup

with film maker - Dylan Avery
and special guests-
Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
artist/author Janette McKinlay (who wrote Fortunate: A Personal Diary of 9/11)
David Ray Griffin, Theologian, author

Bonnie Faulkner, host of KPFA's Guns and Butter will be the mistress of ceremonies.

Thursday films began at noon, 9/10/2009. We premiered-

Anthrax War


with film maker Eric Nadler.

Eric Nadler is an author, TV producer and filmmaker. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Harpers and the New Republic and his films have been been featured on PBS, the Sundance Channel and Court TV in the United States and broadcast internationally. He has produced several PBS Frontline programs, including BCCI- Bank of Crooks and Criminals and The Secret Arming of Saudi Arabia. His theatrical film Stealing The Fire (2002), on the nuclear weapons black market was nominated for Feature Documentary of The Year by the International Documentary Association. Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail is the companion book to the film Anthrax War, co-authored by film makers Bob Coen and Eric Nadler.

Our featured speaker was David Ray Griffin speaking on the topic of his latest book-
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7- Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False

        

David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion and theology, emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies. His 36 books include The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2005), The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political, Economic, Religious Statement (2006 with John B. Cobb, Richard A. Falk, and Catherine Keller), Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action (2006), and 9/11 and American Empire- Intellectuals Speak Out (2006, with Peter Dale Scott). Debunking 9/11 Debunking (2007). His book 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press which points out 25 internal contradictions in the official story. His most recent books include, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé (2008), which was a Publishers Weekly “Pick of the Week,” and Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? (2009). On Wednesday evening, Griffin will be speaking on the subject of Osama Bin Laden.
Here are trailers for two of the films-

Anthrax War - trailer from Field Agent C on Vimeo.


Actor Ed Asner

A great supporter of the Truth Movement, Ed Asner, recorded public service announcements on behalf of the 9/11 Film Festival and the Truth Movement.

Ed is probably best known for his character Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 and his role as a journalist on the Lou Grant Show from 1977-1982. He won an Emmy for his role on Roots and also 6 other Emmys. His movie and TV career has spanned almost a half a century and he has acted in over 20 movies… most recently he co-starred in the feature film Gigantic with John Goodman; and had an Emmy nominated guest appearance on CSI/NY and currently he is the lead voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s 2009 box-office-hit UP and has narrated the documentary film “The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror”.

Ed Asner has been a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity he opposed the US policy in Central America. He also played a prominent role in the 1980 SAG strike. He has been active in a variety of other causes, such as the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and in Racism Watch and has consistently served and committed himself to the rights of the working performer in addition to advocating for human rights, world peace, environmental preservation and political freedom.

(Ed Asner's interview on No Lies Radio was broadcasted on Thursday, August 27, 2009, at noon, Pacific Time and his public service announcements are also posted at noliesradio.org, which will also be at the Film Festival and broadcasting portions of it live.)

This is the Final Schedule of the film festival program. Here is the September 8, 2009 Press Release.

Hosted by Bonnie Faulkner of Guns and Butter with guest speakers-

    Mike Daly, Richard Gage, David Ray Griffin, Janette MacKinlay, Dylan Avery, Carol Brouillet, Ken Jenkins, Mickey Huff, Paul Rea, Swami Beyondananda, Eric Nadler, Peter Phillips
And guest musicians-
    Vic Sadot and Jeremy Goodfeather

Wednesday Evening, 9.9.09
    6:00- - Music with Vic Sadot and Jeremy Goodfeather

    6:15- - Welcome Bonnie Faulkner

    6:20- 7:00- - Film: Metal of Honor by Rachel Maguire (27 minute excerpt) Introduction and follow-up by Mike Daly.

    7:00- 7:01- - Richard Gage intro to Trailer to Blueprint for 9/11 Truth by Ken Jenkins for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

    7:01- 7:11- - Trailer to Blueprint for 9/11 Truth (10 minutes) by Ken Jenkins for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

    7:11- 7:20- - Richard Gage AE911Truth: Challenges & Updates (10 minutes)

    7:20- 7:30- - David Ray Griffin on Osama bin Laden- Dead or Alive? (10 minutes)

    7:30- 7:42- - Bonnie Faulkner, NYCCAN update with Janette MacKinlay

    7:42- 7:45- - Dylan Avery introduces his new film

    7:45- 9:20- - The World Premiere of Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup by Dylan Avery (95 minutes)

    9:20- 9:50- - Q & A with Dylan Avery (assisted by Peter B. Collins) (30 minutes)

    9:50- 10:49- - Film: 7/7: Ripple Effect by Muad Dib ("British Loose Change"- DVD maker in jail for sending it to jury/judge/victim’s families) (57 minutes)

    9:50- 10:20- - Book signing and DVD signing in the lobby with David Ray Griffin and Dylan Avery

    10:49- 10:59- - Speaker- Carol Brouillet (10 minutes)

Thursday, 9.10.09 Noon-

Welcome Intro- Noon-

    12:10- 1:54- - Film: Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (102 minutes)

    1:54- 2:04- - Speaker- Ken Jenkins (10 minutes)

    2:05- 2:59- - Film- Kill the Messenger by French filmmakers- Mathieu Verboud and Jean R. Viallett (52 minutes)

    2:59- 3:09- - Speaker- Mickey Huff (10 minutes)

    3:09- 4:45- - The US Premiere of The New American Century by Italian filmmaker- Massimo Mazzucco (94 minutes)

    4:45- 4:55- - Speaker Dr. Paul Rea (10 minutes)

    4:55- 5:06- - Short Film - Star Wars and False Flag Terrorism (See- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0fDUoudO7w) (10:13 minutes)

    5:06- 5:30- - Swami Beyondananda (24 minutes)

    5:30- 5:45- - Musicians- Vic Sadot and Jeremy Goodfeather perform 9/11 Truth songs.

Thursday Evening, 9.10.09-

    5:45 - 5:50- - Evening welcome with Bonnie Faulkner, intro to the film Anthrax War by Eric Nadler

    5:50 – 7:18- - The West Coast Premiere of Anthrax War by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler (86 minutes)

    7:18- 7:40- - Speaker- Eric Nadler

    7:40 - 8:00- - Speaker- Peter Phillips and Janette MacKinlay with an update on NYCCAN

    8:00- 9:00- - Speaker- David Ray Griffin - on NIST’s WTC7 Report

    9:00- 9:30- - Q & A with David Ray Griffin

    9:30- 9:40- - Actions- What we can do (action groups- how to get involved)

    9:40- 10:00- - Inspiring 9/11 Truth music videos

Here are more details on the speakers and films-

Wednesday Evening, 9.09.09

6:15- 6:20- - Welcome!

    Our Mistress of Ceremonies-

    Bonnie Faulkner host of Guns and Butter, a weekly one-hour public affairs program that airs on Pacifica's KPFA Radio in Berkeley, 94.1FM, every Wednesday at 1pm. Guns & Butter has been broadcast weekly since September 11, 2002. The program regularly analyzes the events of September 11, 2001 as a pretext for permanent war, the phony war on terror and the emergence of a militarized police state. Other programming has addressed such topics as economics, homelessness, Zionism and assassination.

    She co-produced and co-hosted Guns & Butter on an occasional basis starting in October, 2001 while doing field reporting for the KPFA News Department, which she joined in April of 2001. Prior to joining KPFA, she was a contributing producer of Project Censored's monthly public affairs radio documentary, "For The Record". She was a land use activist in Venice, California for many years, challenging the City of Los Angeles' approval of commercial re-zoning and development in the coastal zone of Venice. She founded the North Venice Boulevard Neighborhood Association to fight the removal of residential housing and to protect coastal access. She graduated from the University of California at Irvine.

6:20- 7:00- - Excerpt from the film Metal of Honor with Mike Daly


    Metal of Honor

    Metal of Honor by Rachel Maguire chronicles the account of the courageous New York City ironworkers who risked their lives following the tragic events of September 11th. Their story is largely untold, but the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks would not have been possible without these men. With no narration, the story is told through compelling personal interviews with the men who battled through the war zone haze of ash and rubble. Armed with cutting torches, they risked their personal safety to burn through steel, clearing paths for equipment and emergency personnel.

    Traumatic images still haunt their dreams; the smell never leaves their memories. Many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and respiratory problems. Metal of Honor is their story, in their words -- a story of human spirit, camaraderie and passion. [The entire film is 75 minutes in length. The filmmaker gave us permission to show a 27 minute excerpt.]


    Mike Daly

    Mike Daly is an Ironworkers 377 member, and works with the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21. He was born and raised in NYC Metro Area. He attended St. Louis University and GW University. He is a Steel Industry Construction Manager and a member of the LaborFest Organizing Committee, as well as a delegate - to Bay Area Labor Councils. He is married, has a daughter and lives in San Francisco.

    Metal of Honor chronicles the incredible account of the courageous New York City ironworkers who risked their lives following the tragic events of September 11th. In solidarity with the ironworkers of New York, Mike has sought to bring their voices, stories to the Bay Area.

7:00- 7:20- - 10 Minute Version of Blueprint for Truth with Richard Gage - "AE911Truth: Challenges & Updates"

    In this multimedia presentation, filmed professionally in a studio before a live audience, San Francisco Bay Area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, provides the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings on September 11, 2001.


    Richard Gage

    Richard Gage, AIA, is a San Francisco Bay Area architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is the founding member of ae911Truth. He has been a practicing architect for over 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction, including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings. Most recently he worked on the construction documents for a $400M mixed-use urban project with 1.2 million square feet of retail, parking structure, and 320,000 square feet of mid-rise office space—altogether about with 1,200 tons of steel framing. Mr. Gage became interested in researching the destruction of the WTC high-rises after hearing the startling conclusions of a reluctant 9/11 researcher, David Ray Griffin, on the radio in 2006, which launched his own unyielding quest for the truth about 9/11.
7:20- 7:30- David Ray Griffin - "Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?"

7:30- 7:42- - Bonnie Faulkner, NYCCAN update with Janette MacKinlay


    Janette MacKinlay

    Janette MacKinlay watched the events of 9/11 unfold out the window of her apartment located directly across the street from the World Trade Center complex. She and her partner remained inside their apartment and survived the blast which burst their windows and flooded their apt. with dust and debris upon the collapse of Tower Two. After staying in a hotel for five weeks, while attempting to recover personal belongings, Janette returned to her home in Oakland, California to recover from the emotional effects of the trauma. Her journey to recovery initially involved art, and she had exhibitions featuring a memorial series of flower arrangements using her skills in Ikebana, Japanese flower arranging. She documented her experiences in a book called, Fortunate: A Personal Diary of 9/11. Her recovery also involved educating herself regarding the who, what and why's of 9/11. Upon seeing the 9/11 Commissioners present their report at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco, she was convinced there was a coverup and became active in the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. She also returned to New York and became active there, as well. She is on the board of NYCCAN which is working to get an initiative on the ballot in New York City for a new investigation of 9/11. Janette will give an update on the situation in New York.

    (Janette is also featured in the film- Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup.)

7:42- 7:45- - The World Premiere of Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup introduced by filmmaker Dylan Avery


    Dylan Avery

    Dylan Avery is the writer and director of the “Loose Change” series of documentaries regarding the events of September 11th, 2001. Born in Leesburg, Virginia and raised in Upstate New York, he was rejected from film school twice. In 2002, Avery began researching and writing a feature film about 9/11 and the United States Government's possible involvement which led to a number of actual questions about the events and ultimately became the premise for "Loose Change.” At 25 years old, Avery continues to work tirelessly to make the best films possible and raise awareness for the Truth Movement as well as money for the First Responders and other 9/11 related causes through the Avery Foundation. He currently resides in California and is writing a full length feature film that will begin pre-production in late 2009.

    Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup was written and directed by Dylan Avery. With the departure of the Bush Administration and the arrival of an “era of transparency,” opportunities are arising for the disclosure of new information that may shed more light on the events that took place before and after 9/11/2001. Dramatically narrated by Daniel Sunjata of FX’s Rescue Me, and an outspoken advocate for the First Responders, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup first examines mysterious and infamous events that reshaped world history – from the Reichstag Fire in 1933 that catapulted Hitler to dictatorship - to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964 that led to the Vietnam War, and then takes viewers on a turbulent journey through several pivotal moments in history before delving into the most significant catastrophe in recent memory, 9/11.

9:20- 9:50- - Q & A with Dylan Avery assisted by Peter B. Collins


Peter B. Collins
Peter B. Collins lives in the Bay Area and is a well known voice on the radio. He currently hosts Peter B. Collins Show and has included on his show many of the most articulate voices in the Truth Movement.

9:50- 10:49- - Film - 7/7 Ripple Effect

    The film “7/7 Ripple Effect” was finished and publicly released electronically on the Internet on the 5th November 2007 (Guy Fawke’s Day) by Muad’Dib. He also sent out physical DVD copies during May/June 2008, when the first trial of the three men was taking place at Kingston. Later, on 1st August 2008, it was reported that the jury in this trial cannot arrive at a verdict after three weeks of consideration, and the judge dismissed them. On 19th August 2008, a BBC Conspiracy Files film crew tracked down Muad’Dib’s residence and ambushed him, cameras rolling. Muad’Dib didn’t speak a word to them and walked past them. That took place AFTER email exchanges between BBC representatives and Muad’Dib, initiated by the BBC, where Muad’Dib stated his conditions in order to agree to take part in their programme about his film, which they refused to agree to. As a direct result of Muad’Dib’s non-compliance with the BBC, the authorities resorted to their plan B: the arrest of Muad'Dib, and (as of now) attempted extradition to face trial in England. 7/7 Ripple Effect is the British version of Loose Change which directly challenges the official story of the 7/7 attacks in London.

10:49- 10:59- - Carol Brouillet

Thursday Afternoon, 9.10.09

Noon-

    Our Mistress of Ceremonies-

    Bonnie Faulkner host of Guns and Butter, a weekly one-hour public affairs program that airs on Pacifica's KPFA Radio in Berkeley, 94.1FM, every Wednesday at 1pm. Guns & Butter has been broadcast weekly since September 11, 2002. The program regularly analyzes the events of September 11, 2001 as a pretext for permanent war, the phony war on terror and the emergence of a militarized police state. Other programming has addressed such topics as economics, homelessness, Zionism and assassination.

    She co-produced and co-hosted Guns & Butter on an occasional basis starting in October, 2001 while doing field reporting for the KPFA News Department, which she joined in April of 2001. Prior to joining KPFA, she was a contributing producer of Project Censored's monthly public affairs radio documentary, "For The Record". She was a land use activist in Venice, California for many years, challenging the City of Los Angeles' approval of commercial re-zoning and development in the coastal zone of Venice. She founded the North Venice Boulevard Neighborhood Association to fight the removal of residential housing and to protect coastal access. She graduated from the University of California at Irvine.

12:10- 1:54- - Film: Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas

    Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas explores a vast intelligence network and how they were able to succeed almost 7 years ago. In the court of public opinion Osama Bin laden was convicted on day 1, there were no other suspects. Many of the alleged hijackers were trained at U.S. military facilities, and still others had ties to the FBI. When others within the FBI tried to go after Bin Laden, and his financial supporters, their investigations were impeded and shut down.

    Able Danger the Black Ops program that identified the hijackers prior to 9/11 had also tried to move the information to the FBI, but the FBI still was not interested for some reason. Anthony Shaffer who headed up this team later met with Phillip Zelikow, the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, to try and pass this information along after the fact. It was then covered up, not included in the report, and Shaffer and his team were gagged and slandered. The film then explores the mystery of those who were detained on the morning of September 11th. Several vans were stopped that morning containg Israeli citizens, who either seemed to have prior knowledge of the attacks, or had explosives in their vehicle. When investigators started looking into this network it was revealed they did indeed have a classified role in 9/11, and that two companies within the United States may have been helping them gain their intel. This network's existence is then confirmed by whistle blower Sibel Edmonds, who came across a international spy ring containing Turks, Israelis, and member's of Pakistani Intelligence. The Pakistani operation was headed by General Mahmoud Ahmed, who had financial ties to the hijackers, and diplomatic ties to the upper echelons of Washington. By identifying major anomalies, the film shows that the Congressional Report and the 9/11 Commission Report were both whitewashes used to manipulate the public.

1:54- 2:04- - Speaker- Ken Jenkins


    Ken Jenkins

    Pioneering 9/11 activist and video producer, Ken Jenkins has a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and has done extensive postgraduate study in psychology. He has worked as a video professional for over 30 years, including 7 years at Hewlett-Packard in their state-of-the-art broadcast video facility HPTV.

    Ken awoke to 9/11 truth by November of 2001 and started presenting his PowerPoint and video productions on 9/11 truth in early 2002. He has since spoken at four international 9/11 conferences on the Psychological Aspects of 9/11 and participated in numerous other 9/11 events and radio programs. His first video release,“Perspective on 9/11” was originally made for the early live presentations. He has since produced dozens of 9/11 DVDs, including eight with leading 9/11 Truth author David Ray Griffin, including what he believes to be his best-“9/11 – The Myth and the Reality”

2:05- 2:59- - Film- Kill the Messenger by French filmmakers- Mathieu Verboud and Jean R. Viallett

    Kill the Messenger by French filmmakers- Mathieu Verboud and Jean R. Viallett looks at the story of Sibel Edmonds who agreed to join the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. Her world was turned upside-down when Sibel she reported wrongdoings to her supervisors. One of her colleagues from the Translation Unit was secretly working for the same Turkish officials who were “targetted” by the top-secret FBI investigations that Sibel was working on. As a “reward” for her whistle-blowing, Sibel was fired from the FBI. The film documents her struggle. Ms. Edmonds is fluent in Turkish, Farsi and Azerbaijani; and has a MA in Public Policy and International Commerce from George Mason University, and a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology from George Washington University. PEN American Center awarded Ms. Edmonds the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for her "commitment to preserving the free flow of information in the United States in a time of growing international isolation and increasing government secrecy." She founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.

2:59- 3:09- - Speaker- Mickey Huff


    Mickey Huff

    Mickey Huff is Associate Professor of History and Social Science at Diablo Valley College; Associate Director of the Media Freedom Foundation and former Associare Director of Project Censored (which was the recipient of the 2008 PEN Oakland National Literary Censorship Award); the Project Censored International College and University Affiliates Coordinator; a member of the Advisory Board for national 911Truth.org; a member of the Board of Directors for the newly forming Center for the Study of Media in a Global Society as well as a former Lecturer in Sociology, both at Sonoma State University; and previously Co-Director for the alternative polling agency Retropoll in Berkeley, CA (RetroPoll.org). He is co-author with Dr. Paul Rea of "Deconstructing Deceit: 9/11, the Media, and Myth Information" published in "Censored 2009" and recently completed co-editing and co-authoring the "Censored 2010" book with Dr. Peter Phillips. He blogs at Ministry of Mythinformation and dailycensored.org.

3:09- 4:45- - The US Premiere of The New American Century by Italian filmmaker- Massimo Mazzucco

    The New American Century by Italian filmmaker, Massimo Mazzucco, who also produced- Global Deceit (2006) which focused on the long list of inconsistencies in the official version of the 9/11 attacks. His latest film explores the historical, philosophical and economic background leading up to 9/11. He details the history of The Project for the New American Century and the history of false flag operations that has cloaked most major wars that the US has become involved in. Unocal's activities in Afghanistan before and after 9/11 are exposed, as well as Halliburton's "cost plus" exclusive contract with the US military and their spending spree in Iraq.

4:45- 4:55- - Speaker Dr. Paul Rea


    Paul Rea, Ph.D.

    Paul Rea, Ph.D., researcher/writer, author of Still Seeking the Truth about 9/11, has taught "The Politics of Age" and "Science, Technology, and Human Values" at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA. Paul is completing an updated, much-expanded overview of the issues surrounding 9/11 in a new book which will include The Zealots of Dominance: The Neocon Factor in 9/11, specifically looking at the mindset of those involved with the Project for a New American Century.

4:55- 5:06- - Short Film - Star Wars and False Flag Terrorism 10:13 minutes

5:06- 5:30- - Swami Beyondananda


    Swami Beyondananda (Steve Bhaerman)

    Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 18 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting” and has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.” As the Swami, Steve is the author of four books. In his “past life” (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School. A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College. In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics.

    He wrote a cover story about David Ray Griffin that appeared in the North Bay Bohemian, Santa Cruz Metro, and Silicon Valley Metro, and continues to be a great ambassador for truth, humor, spontaneous evolution. (the title of his latest CD- Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and How to Get There from Here which breaks the spell of lies, fear, manipulations and brings to light truth, discoveries, a path towards where we would like to go.)

5:30- 5:45- - Music by Vic Sadot and Jeremy Goodfeather with Crow Knight


    Vic Sadot

    Vic Sadot is a folk singer in the tradition of Broadside, the National Topical Song Magazine of Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, and songwriters like Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. In 2008 Vic decided to leave his home state of Delaware and move to Berkeley, California. Since coming to California, Vic has released a CD called 9/11 Truth & Justice Songs. His best known 9/11 Truth songs are Cheney's in the Bunker and The Ballad of William Rodriguez.


    Jeremy Goodfeather

    Jeremy Goodfeather Native American (Mohawk, Mexica (me-shee-cah), contemporary folk, San Francisco CA Based singer/songwriter, in the finest tradition of music for the people, has been described as poetic, healing, inspirational, political and provocative without being tied down to any kind of stereo type that is typically associated with "Native Music." Accompanied by Percussionist Crow Knight (Lakota, Seminole), together as a duet they play a dynamic acoustic set of original, heart felt music, with a simple, straight forward sound that pulls from a wide variety of influences and styles that can range from Traditional Native, Folk, Rock, Blues, reggae, Funk, Jazz, country or anything else that it takes to tell a story with music. He performed The Truth About It.

Thursday Evening, 9.10.09

5:45 - 5:50- - Evening welcome with Bonnie Faulkner, intro to the film Anthrax War by Eric Nadler

5:50- 7:18- - The West Coast Premiere of Anthrax War by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler


    Anthrax War

    by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler is a ground-breaking feature length documentary which illuminates the possibility of a Germ War Arms Race. Just weeks after 9/11, anthrax-laced letters sent to government and media offices in Washington and New York. The trail led to the Bio-defense labs of the United States and the U.S. Military’s testing grounds. The filmmakers travel to a top-secret military installation of the former Soviet Union where anthrax escaped thirty years ago, where civilians are still living with the consequences, and where biological weapons work may be continuing. They move on to the savannas of southern Africa, where they meet “Doctor Death” and his associates of the notorious Project Coast who experimented with anthrax and other designer germs during the Apartheid Era. As they travel to the world’s bio-war ‘hot zones’, the filmmakers encounter people confronting the new threat of germ warfare today – investigators, politicians, and journalists probing this nightmare world as well as scientists, legislators and citizen activists working to warn the world that biological arms proliferation will prove catastrophic. The film reveals how the anthrax attacks have helped make bio-defense a mega billion dollar global business, into which the US Government has poured at least $50 billion in the past six years – almost twice as much as the cost of the “Manhattan Project”. While governments describe their measures as ‘defensive’, much of this research and development is necessarily dual use and can be used for ‘offensive’ purposes, which many say, is in violation of existing international treaties and, in the case of the United States, in violation of U. S. law.

    Germ weapons research and development, once the domain of secret government programs, is becoming a profitable enterprise for corporations, universities and medical foundations worldwide. New and virulent pathogens are being brought to life by scientists using the latest advances in nanotechnology and genetic engineering, paving the way for such horrors as ‘ethnic specific germ weapons’, never-seen-before ‘designer-bugs’ and emerging new epidemics. The film explores the horrific legacy of human experimentation, spanning decades and continents, in which germ weapons have been tested on unwitting members of armed forces and civilians alike.

    Also probed are the mysterious deaths in recent years of several leading scientists working in this field. Bruce Ivins, David Kelly, Vladimir Pasechnik, Larry Ford and Frank Olson each died in violent or suspicious circumstances and have been linked to one of germ warfare’s darkest secrets, state programs developing new strains of anthrax.

    Aired in Canada, the documentary also has a companion book, Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail .

7:18- 7:40- - Eric Nadler


    Eric Nadler

    Eric Nadler is an author, TV producer and filmmaker. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Harpers and the New Republic and his films have been been featured on PBS, the Sundance Channel and Court TV in the United States and broadcast internationally. He has produced several PBS Frontline programs, including BCCI- Bank of Crooks and Criminals and The Secret Arming of Saudi Arabia. His theatrical film Stealing The Fire (2002), on the nuclear weapons black market was nominated for Feature Documentary of The Year by the International Documentary Association.

7:40 - 8:00- - Speaker- Peter Phillips (and Janete MacKinlay with an update on NYCCAN)


    Peter Phillips

    Peter Phillips joined the Sociology Department of Sonoma State University in 1994 after completing a Ph.D. at U.C. Davis. He teaches courses Political Sociology, Power, Sociology of Media and Media Censorship. Dr. Phillips is the former director of Project Censored an internationally known media research program that annually identifies the “Most Censored” news stories in the United States. The annual research book produced by Project Censored is entitled "Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News", and is available from Seven Stories Press. He is a founder and on the Board of Directors of the Media Freedom Foundation.

8:00 - 9:00- - Speaker - David Ray Griffin "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 - Why the Official Final Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False"

9:00 - 9:30- - Q & A with David Ray Griffin

9:30- 9:40- - What we can do

9:40- 10:00- - Inspiring 9/11 Truth Music Videos

The 2009 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival will be held Wednesday and Thursday, September 9th & 10th, 2009

at the Grand Lake Theater

3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland

Tickets are $10 for each day are now available. They may be purchased at locations in the Bay Area:

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