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CURRENT SCREENINGS
Scarboro Public Library
Date: October 16, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
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University of New Hampshire
Date: December 3, 2008
Time: 7 pm
Contact: Tami Kennedy
Phone: 207-838-0816
Email: tami@maine.rr.com
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NH Suicide Prevention Newsletter
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PAST SCREENINGS
Central Maine Community College, Auburn
University of Southern Maine, Portland
Bates College, Lewiston
Wellstone Film Festival, South Portland
Maine Statehouse, Augusta
Portland Friends Meeting, Portland
Eveningstar Cinema, Brunswick
Maine Women's and Girls' Film Festival, Portland
University of Maine, Orono
New Gloucester Congregational Church/
Cumberland County Democratic Committee
Bates College Democrats, Lewiston
Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville
Orono Community Forum, Orono
Historic Town Hall Theatre, South Woodstock, VT
Farnsworth Hard Museum Auditorium, Rockland
M.A.I.N. Fall Conference, Augusta
Temple Beth Jacob, Concord, NH
The Maine Council for the Social Studies Conference, Augusta
Harvard Injury Control Research Center Seminar Series, Boston MA
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
University of Vermont, Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, Burlington, VT
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Contact Us To Arrange A Screening!
The film's been seen at churches, community forums, film series, caucuses, discussion groups and house parties. It's a terrific discussion starter for activists, political organizations, and suicide prevention groups.
Speakers' bureau and discussion panels available upon request.
Email inquiries to: info@ThereOughtToBeALaw.com
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Cathy Crowley Honored with the Harry Bliss Award
Remarks by Daniel Oppenheim
In Judaism, when someone who has died is spoken of, the phrase “may his memory be a blessing” is used. Cathy Crowley has arisen from the most unimaginable personal tragedy, the death of her child, to make his memory a blessing for us all. With the most profound personal honesty & integrity, she has turned her anguish at the absolute wrongness of the fact that in this state a child of 18 can walk into Walmart or anywhere, buy a firearm on the spot, go home and turn it upon himself, into a fight for the lives of other young people who in a passing moment of their yet-fully-mature lives are moved to do themselves or others harm.
With no previous political experience or ambitions, she has become an expert advocate for the cause. The bill she designed & shepherded, with the help of legislators and others, most especially Cathie Whittenberg, asks simply for a waiting period of 10 days before a young person can purchase a firearm. This protection is already in place in 18 other states, but despite her almost ceaseless 2 year effort, hour by hour, day by day, individual by individual, the influence of the gun lobby in Maine served to temporarily defeat the bill in the last legislative session.
Cathy’s heroic commitment, at tremendous personal cost, is stunningly documented in Shoshana Hoose’s film “There Ought to be a Law”, of which we just saw the first few moments and which recently won the Maine Film Acadamy’s Galvanizing Activist Leadership Award. We are honored to have Shoshana with us here tonight as well. Cathy attends virtually every screening of the film to help answer questions & educate the audience, despite what must surely be an unbearably painful re-living of the experience each time she sees it.
No thinking person, who examines the data about youth suicide attempts (lower than average in this state), completion rates (higher than average), gun ownership rates, and suicide methods as well as the developmental data regarding the behavioral impulsiveness of young people, could disagree that this bill would help prevent the kind of suffering that Cathy & her family have had to endure. Through her persistence, the bill is still alive and there is no doubt that Cathy will continue & probably redouble her efforts, if such a thing is even possible, to prevent this form of tragic violence which has left her forever with no hope of knowing the answer to the most fundamental question, “why”. Cathy, may Larry’s memory continue be a blessing though your work and the work of those you inspire.
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