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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Second Sunday Cinema's November presentation will be “Dirty Wars.”
The free film will be shown Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the film beginning at 6 p.m.
This well-researched, fast-moving 2013 documentary is based on investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill's book, “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.”
Scahill, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller, “Blackwater,” comes upon a fatally flawed night raid by US forces in a remote corner of Afghanistan.
He finds that a highly secretive covert group called Joint Special Operations Command, whose job it is to “find, fix and finish” targets, is involved.
This discovery leads him to further important revelations in other hot spots like Somalia and Yemen.
Scahill finds that no one is beyond reach for JSOC operatives, not even US citizens.
“These wars being fought in our name may be dirty, but this courageous film reminds us that as long as we have a free press, they don't have to be secret,” according to the St Louis Post Dispatch.
Bill Moyers calls Scahill “a one-man truth squad.”
Dirty Wars opened at this year's Sundance Film Festival and won “Best Cinematography.”
For more information about Second Sunday Cinema call 707-889-7355.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The legendary singer and songwriter Holly Near will perform in a benefit concert for Lake County Community Radio on Thursday, Nov. 14.
The show takes place beginning at 7 p.m. at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.
Near, a North Coast native, will present a simple, elegant evening of songs and stories that articulate her work in the world for peace.
Tickets cost $25 per person in advance or $30 per person at the door and are on sale now at the Soper-Reese box office, which is open Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., telephone 707-263-0577; or online at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=3&;p=2 .
There also are special VIP and premier seating packages available.
Proceeds benefit Lake County Community Radio, KPFZ 88.1 FM.
For more information call 707-998-1302.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Linda Guebert, local educator and author, will read from her memoir, “The Hardest Thing I’ll Ever Do,” on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Redbud Library.
The reading will begin at 3 p.m.
Guebert lost the love of her life Ken Kysely in a car crash nine months after their wedding.
Her book lays bare the sorrow and pain that she felt as she learned to live as a widow and to find hope and joy again.
Guebert says that she hopes that sharing her experience will help other people with their own losses.
This free program is open to the public.
The Redbud Library is located at 14785 Burns Valley Road.
For more information, contact Redbud Library at 707-994-5115.
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I’m a sucker for miniatures, I suppose because it’s easy to believe I have control over my world when some of its parts are very small and I have positioned them to my liking.
Here’s a telling poem about a tiny plastic soldier by Mary M. Brown of Indiana.
Classic Toy
The plastic army men are always green.
They’re caught in awkward poses,
one arm outstretched as if to fire,
legs parted and forever stuck on a swiggle
of support, as rigid and green as the boots.
This one has impressions of pockets,
a belt, a collar, a grip on tiny binoculars
intended to enlarge, no doubt, some
tiny enemy.
In back, attached to the belt is a canteen
or a grenade (it’s hard to tell). The helmet
is pulled down low, so as to hide the eyes.
If I point the arm, the gun, toward me,
I see that this soldier is very thin.
It’s almost unreal, how thin he is.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright 2012 by Mary M. Brown, who is working on a collection of poems about John Steinbeck. Poem reprinted from Third Wednesday, Vol. 4, Issue 3, by permission of Mary M. Brown and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2013 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.