Variety calls Countdown to Zero “a politically urgent picture; it will also literally scare the breath out of what will certainly be a worldwide audience.”   Entertainment Weekly says “Countdown to Zero makes old terrors radioactively new again.”

Countdown to Zero highlights the global nuclear threat and spells out, in chilling terms, the danger facing everyone if nuclear weapons end up in the hands of terrorists. The film features an array of international experts and statesmen and it ends with a powerful message: no country should have nuclear weapons.

Academy Award winner Lawrence Bender and Jeffrey Skoll  – the team that produced An Inconvenient Truth –  produced Countdown to Zero.

See the Film

Countdown to Zero will be released in select cities on July 23, July 30, and August 6, including the Main Art Theater in Royal Oak on July 30 (Showtimes: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:45).

Free Tickets

Carpool from Ann Arbor

ICPJ will organize carpools for the Friday and Saturday showings at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. showings. Fill out the carpool request form for details.
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ICPJ joined 15,000 other activists converging on Detroit from June 22nd-26th for the 2nd ever US Social Forum.

UPDATE: ICPJ will host a post-USSF reflection meeting on Thursday, July 1st at First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor. Join us to keep the momentum from the forum going!

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The US Social Forum (USSF) will provide a space to build relationships, learn from each other’s experiences, and share analysis of the problems our communities face. It will help develop leadership, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

United States Social Forum
June 22-26, 2010
Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit
Read more  at http://www.ussf2010.org/

How you can get involved:

1. Join the ICPJ delegation. We’ve organized carpools to commute from our area to Detroit each day of the forum. Contact gracek@icpj.net.
2. Organize your congregation to attend. Whether you’ve got 5 or 50 interested members of your congregation, we can help to support you. Contact gracek@icpj.net. Read this informational sheet on how faith communities can get involved with the USSF.
3. Attend an ICPJ workshop at the forum (ICPJ is leading or participating in the following workshops/PMA):
   

• DEFENDING CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS: Issues, Strategies, and the Need for Allies, Wed, 06/23/2010 – 3:30pm – 5:30pm, Woodward Academy: 1475. http://tinyurl.com/27xclus
• WORKING FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN: A People’s Movement Assembly, Wed, 06/23/2010 – 1:00pm – 5:30pm, Cobo Hall: O3-45, http://tinyurl.com/2726crc
• TORTURE, THE LAW, AND THE MEDIA, Thu, 06/24/2010 – 10:00am – 12:00pm, WSU Student Center: 261, http://tinyurl.com/2fytpn5
• DEPLETION AND ABUNDANCE: Living abundantly with less impact on our Earth, Thu, 06/24/2010 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Cobo Hall: D2-10, http://tinyurl.com/22wtvfl

Join ICPJ to be a part of this exciting grassroots movement for peace and justice!

There will be specific faith and spirituality activities at the social forum. Click here to learn about the “Word and World” workshop offerings; check out the Sacred Space Tent activities; and click here to search all workshops by topic .

We were all horrified when we saw the photos of abuse of foreign detainees in Abu Ghraib. We should all be aghast at the continued abuse of domestic inmates in U.S. prisons.

This Monday, June 14, we’ll discuss the connection between torture of inmates at home and abroad in a panel discussion with four amazing panelsts. Join us for the discussion:

What: Human Rights Beyond the Prison Door: Stopping Detainee Torture and Prisoner Abuse, a panel discussion

When: Monday, June 14, 7:00 p.m.

Where: Ann Arbor Public Library, Downstairs Multipurpose Room, 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (Map).

Details: Contact Chuck Warpehoski, Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, 734-663-1870, chuck@icpj.net.

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