BANGKOK, Thailand -- Millions of Thais were gripped with suspense, misery, or delight seeing a Shakespearean display of political knives and an agonized "Et tu Brute?" echoing in the hostile Senate when it voted twice to crush popular Pita Limjaroenrat's chances to become prime minister.

The grim, militarized, junta-appointed 249-member Senate was not a welcoming place for Pita, 44, who won a nationwide House election in May, promising to reform the U.S.-trained military and stop them repeatedly seizing power through coups.

Pita also wanted to "reform" the constitutional monarchy, slash the military's opaque budget and lucrative commercial enterprises, downsize the swollen number of generals, end conscription, and disband the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) which is currently grappling with Islamist Malay-Thai separatists in the south.

The Senate's votes on July 13 and 19 ended Pita's current climb to the prime ministry.

Opens August 11
https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/lakota-nation-vs-united-states-2023/

It's the most sacred place on earth, the birthplace of the Lakota that has shaped thought, identity and philosophy for the Očéti Šakówiŋ since time immemorial, the life-giving land known as the Black Hills. Yet with the arrival of the first Europeans in 1492, the sacred land has been the site of conflict between the people it has nurtured, and the settler state seeking to exploit and redefine it in its own image. This documentary is a searing testament to the strength of the Oyate and a visually stunning rejoinder to the distorted image of a people long shaped by Hollywood. "Lakota Nation vs. United States" is a lyrical and provocative testament to a land and a people who've survived removal, exploitation and genocide, and whose best days are yet to come.

Thursday, July 20, 3-6pm, 935 Mount Vernon Ave. [near the intersection of Mount Vernon Ave. and N. 17th Ave.]

Join us each week for fresh, affordable, nutritious produce, local artisan creations, activities for youth, live music, and a food truck. This week there will be a Plant Swap and Recipe Swap; bring a plant and get a plant. And check out tasty plant-based recipes.

Vendors include Local Matters, Cynts Scents, Sankofa Love Designs, R02K, Coffico, and many, many others!

This event will repeat each Thursday, 3-6pm, until September 28.

Hosted by Bronzeville Growers Market. 

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“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.”

When it comes to climate change, one two-letter word has me totally perplexed: “we.” There’s an implication of global unity — a transcendent “we,” marching as to war (so to speak) — facing humanity’s greatest crisis, undoing the exploitative, Earth-destroying aspects of our social structure and grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature. We need to do everything we can!

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise consistently show their passion for high-octane action-adventure movies. They are in the business of giving audiences a seat-gripping, thrilling experience every time they release a Mission Impossible movie.

The 7th installment in the acclaimed spy-action franchise delves into the imminent concerns surrounding AI –– a theme anticipated to be the next cinematic trend akin to multiversal movies. While the concept of AI as a threat is not new to cinema, MI7 presents it in an eerily realistic parallel, reflecting genuine fears driven by our forever-advancing technology. Everything that Elon Musk has warned us about AI is essentially the setup in this movie. The threat of AI serves as the most formidable challenge yet for Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, setting a heightened atmosphere of paranoia, suspense, and tension.

The movie opens with a Russian submarine in the Bering Strait, followed by a series of thrilling action sequences in the desert and Amsterdam, all filled with tons of exposition, shootouts, explosions, and fake deaths –– everything you'd expect in an MI movie –– and this is before the title card shows.