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Friday August 6th: Screening @ 7:00, Doors @ 6:00, Arlington's Regent Theater |
Dear Friends,
What would a nuclear attack look like? That's what filmmaker Peter Watkins explored in The War Game. It won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and scared the BBC so much that they banned the film!
At the recommendation of healthcare professionals masks will be required, and provided. Maximum capacity will be set at 150/475 seats, and a virtual option has been added. After the film and a question and answer session, audience members are encouraged to participate in a candlelight vigil. The vigil will take place by the Civil War memorial in Arlington Center around 8:45 pm, one block from the theater at the corner of Broadway and Massachusetts Ave.
The screening is presented by Massachusetts Peace Action and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and is cosponsored by:
- Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security
- Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment
- Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter 9 of Veterans For Peace
- Arlington United for Justice with Peace
- Soko Gakkai International – USA
- Peace Abbey / Pacifist Memorial
- Pax Christi MA
- Pax Christi St. Susanna
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- 350Mass
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Bikes Not Bombs
- Arlington Human Rights Commission
- Community Church of Boston
- Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign
Following the film, Nobel Laureate Dr. Ira Helfand
will take questions and discuss steps you can take
to help rid the world of nuclear weapons!
Ira Helfand, MD is a member of the International
Steering Group of the International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapon, ICAN, the recipient of
the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, and Immediate Past
President of the International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War, the founding partner
of ICAN and itself the recipient of the 1985 Nobel
Peace Prize.
Brian Garvey
Assistant Director
Massachusetts Peace Action