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Screening: The Central Park Five

The Central Park Five, a 2012 film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of the horrific 1989 crime. The brutal beating and rape of a white woman in New York City's Central Park provoked public outrage and sensational headlines during the prosecution and conviction of the five defendants.

"Why We Fight" A film by Eugene Jarecki

Why We Fight (99 min) describes the rise and maintenance of the United
States military-industrial complex and its  more than 50-year
involvement with the wars led by the United States, including he 2003
invasion of Iraq. The film includes interviews with politician John
McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson,
military policy analyst Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator
William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, Charles Lewis (founder of the