Kieran Ridge, TMS English Dept. Chair, will host a screening at the Sausalito Film Festival, at Cavallo Point Resort, on Sunday, August 21 at 4 pm. The film is called Blood in the Mobile, and is a powerful investigation of how the "conflict minerals" necessary to our IT gadgets -phones, computers, cameras - are at the heart of the ongoing wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He'll be joined for a Q&A session by Muadi Mukenge, a powerful and well-informed speaker originally from the DR Congo; she is now working here in the US with Friends of the Congo and the Global Fund for Women.
The Congo wars have claimed nearly six million lives since the mid-1990's, drawing in all of the DR Congo's neighbors, and are perhaps the most under-reported major news story globally. Most casualties are civilians, and this screening provides a follow up to our TMS Presents event focusing on human rights in the DR Congo at UCSF a couple of years ago.
Tickets and event info:
www.sausalitofilmfestival.com/films/blood.html
YouTube Trailer
We'd love to see you there, in support of the Congolese people and our friends and neighbors at the Sausalito Film Festival.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Incoming TMS Freshman in the News
Incoming freshman, Simonne Berg, was recently featured in Tiburon's "The Ark" newspaper for her winning performance at the Big Skyliner amateur horse-jumping competition at the prestigious Spruce Meadows facility in Calgary, Canada.
Among the events she won medals for were first place for a team event, a $3,000 jumping competition and a bronze medal for the overall best rider. Her horse, Limerick, was named best of the competition.
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