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Event Time and Location
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Film Events are held every third Tuesday. We begin sharply at 7:00 and all are welcome to join in a discussion following the showing.
Once again, Kelly's Restaurant is providing space and a screen. Water and coffee available. But we suggest you come early and have dinner/drink and a movie.
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Coalition Principles
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We value the voice of every person.
May we accept, listen to, and learn from one another.
May each and every person find the freedom and courage to do what they believe is true and right.
May each of us work together for a peaceful, just and free world.
May we care for each other and our planet Earth, the home we share with all living things. |
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About the Coalition
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The Outer Banks Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition is an education/social action organization that believes love, commitment to future generations, wise stewardship of the environment and promotion of social, political, and economic justice are responsibilities of all people. Faith refers to that which motivates people, shapes the way they live, informs their choices and without which it would be difficult to carry on living. For many their faith and beliefs are clearly identified with a named religious or ethical system and they may belong to an institution or community. Others may not find it so easy to identify their beliefs and faith with an existing organization. The Coalition recognizes a whole range of beliefs, of faith traditions, of ways of belonging and of practice.
The Coalition empowers people of faith and people of conscience in the Outer Banks Community to act on their moral and religious values to build a better world.
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Greetings!
We are very excited about the social justice documentaries we will be showing the 2012-2013 season. Selection is based not only on issues but on films that have been recognized by national and regional film festivals. The public is always welcome to attend. Once again, Kelly's Restaurant is graciously providing us space. Films are scheduled for the third Tuesday at 7:00 pm. Please be prompt as we start on time. The films last from 60 to 90 minutes and are followed by a faciliated discussion.
If you or a community group would like to co-partner a showing of a particular film, please contact. All of these films have excellent resources for preparation, events, and follow-up activities.
Funding for the films is provided by donations from Holy Redeemer, All Saints Espiscopal, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, community partners and private donations. Your donation is always appreciated.
The Outer Banks Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition
Films are subject to change
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About the film series
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Through its annual film series, the Coalition strives:
- To help members put their faith into action on issues of peace and justice for all people
- To encourage dialogue among members of the various faiths on peace and justice issues of our time
- To raise awareness in the wider community of our vision of peace and justice and the ways in which all of us can bring it about.
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 September 2012: Bullied Every day, thousands of gay and lesbian students are verbally and physically harassed in schools. Bullied centers on the powerful story of Jamie Nabozny, a gay teenage boy, tormented for years by classmates in his middle and high schools. Jamie fought back, not with his fists but in a courtroom. His historic federal case established that gay and lesbian students have a constitutional right to be free from harassment and bullying. |
October 2012: Pricele$$
PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker's personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government's most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date . . . and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion of fellow-citizens, including a class of young civics students, that campaign money is involved, the filmmakers set out on a spellbinding - and at times hilarious - ride from rural America to the halls of Congress to find out more, because democracy is a precious resource. In fact, it's PRICELE$$. The film shines a light on the corridors in our nation's capitol to reveal how campaign money from deep-pocket special interests can influence both, our electoral process and national policies like food and energy. In addition to time spent with seasoned lawmakers, lobbyists, and a few dauntless citizen watchdogs, the filmmakers visit farmers and an unusual group of Iraq War veterans with strong opinions about policies that have changed their lives.
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November 2012: Where Soldiers Come From
From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war.Returning to her hometown, Director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access following these young men as they grow and change from reckless teenagers, to soldiers looking for roadside bombs in Afghanistan, to 23-year-old veterans dealing with the silent war wounds of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and PTSD.
Enticed by a $20,000 signing bonus and the college tuition support, best friends Dominic and Cole join the National Guard after graduating from their rural high school. Soon their group of friends joins them, and eventually the young men are sent to Afghanistan, where they spend their days sweeping for Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). By the time their deployment ends, they are no longer the carefree group of friends they were before enlisting; repeated bombs blowing up around their convoys have led to TBI symptoms, and they have all become increasingly disillusioned about their mission.The challenges really begin to surface when they return to their families and communities in Michigan. WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM looks beyond the guns and policies of an ongoing war to tell a human story about family, friendship, and community and how they all change when young people go off to fight. |
December 2012: The Light in Her Eyes
Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus 30 years ago. Every summer, her female students immerse themselves in a rigorous study of Islam. A surprising cultural shift is under way-women are claiming space within the mosque. Shot right before the uprising in Syria erupted, The Light in Her Eyes offers an extraordinary portrait of a leader who challenges the women of her community to live according to Islam, without giving up their dreams.
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January 2013 Freedom Riders
The powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives-and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment-for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. The Riders' journey was front-page news and the world was watching. After nearly five months of fighting, the federal government capitulated. On September 22, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its order to end the segregation in bus and rail stations that had been in place for generations. Says filmmaker Stanley Nelson, "The lesson of the Freedom Rides is that great change can come from a few small steps taken by courageous people. And that sometimes to do any great thing, it's important that we step out alone." |
February 2013: Crips and Bloods: Made in America
From the genesis of LA's gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., the film chronicles the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony that provides the film with a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor. Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South LA's malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life. Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life. They provide CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA with its ultimate statement: a message of hope and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South LA but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists. |
 March 2013: Climate Refuges This film is about what happens when an over populated world with lack of resources and a changing climate all collide with each other. An intersection of humanity that many are calling the greatest challenge mankind will ever face. If an "Inconvenient Truth" was about what causes climate change, this film is about what are the effects of climate change on our civilization. There is a new phenomenon in the global arena called "Climate Refugees". A climate refugee is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters. Such disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change, resulting in increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, cyclones, fires, mass flooding and tornadoes. All this is causing mass global migration and border conflicts. For the first time, the Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the term climate wars is being talked about in war-room like environments in Washington D.C |
April 2013: The House I Live In
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong, and what can be done? Comprehensive in scope, heart wrenching in its humanity, and brilliant in its thesis, Jarecki's new film grabs viewers and shakes them to their core. The House I Live In is not only the definitive film on the failure of America's drug war, but it is also a masterpiece filled with hope and the potential to effect change.
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 May 2013: US Health Care: The Good News The United States is the only industrialized democracy that doesn't provide health care for all its citizens. "It's generally agreed," says Dr. Elliott Fisher, of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy," that about 30 percent of what we spend on health care is unnecessary. If we eliminate the unneeded care, there are more than enough resources in our system to cover everybody." There are actual communities all over America that have found ways to cut costs while still providing excellent care. These places - from big cities to rural outposts - could be the model for achieving large savings in American medicine with no loss of quality. The Good News looks at a few of these high-quality, low-cost regions of the country, to find out how they do it. They offer many different models of health care delivery, from small rural private practices to big-city clinics treating hundreds of thousands of patients. For all their differences, though, these communities have several important things in common, including a clear commitment by doctors and hospitals to lower the cost of health care. |
June 2013: Love Free or Die
Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since. The film follows Robinson's personal story as American churches debate whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God while our nation debates whether LGBT people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of the law. Bishop Gene steps onto the world stage as he travels from small-town churches to Washington's Lincoln Memorial to London's Lambeth Palace calling for all to stand for equality - inspiring bishops, priests and ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change history. |
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