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Fresno Rogue Festival March 4-12

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RAMBO: THE MISSING YEARS will be at the Fresno Rogue Festival for six shows beginning March 4, 2011

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CONTACT
Howard Petrick
415 740-5161

Howard at nvcsf.net

Preview at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpuOcOIes0I

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http://www.sirnosir.com/the_film/synopsis.html
Excerpt:

Epilogue: The Myth Of The Spitting Hippie

As the U.S. military and its allies flee Vietnam in disarray in the Spring of 1975, the government, the media, and Hollywood begin a 20 year process of erasing the GI Movement from the collective memory of the nation and the world. Ronald Reagan’s “Resurgent America” campaign re-writes the history of Vietnam and erases the GI Movement; by 1990, over 100 theatrical films have been produced about the Vietnam War, none of which portray the GI Antiwar Movement or any opposition to the war by soldiers; the myth that antiwar activists routinely spat on returning soldiers is spread as part of the buildup to the 1990 Gulf War.
The story is told with the rising intensity characterized by each chapter–the vivid, heart-wrenching stories of participants in the movement are, fitting the times, surrounded by and infused with the growing swirl of events of which they became a part.
One thing that is startling about the GI Movement, given how thoroughly it has been erased from memory, is how widely it was covered by the media at the time it happened. There are literally thousands of news reports, both from local and national television and newspaper and magazine articles about the movement–several of which appear in the film. We have obtained thousands of editions of GI Underground papers from archives around the country. With this material, we have created a vivid picture of the development of the movement.
In addition, we have obtained exclusive rights to the handful of documentary films that dealt with the GI Movement at the time, along with: FTA, the feature film about Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s antiwar review that traveled to military bases around the world (and we have included an exclusive interview with Jane Fonda about her role in the GI and veterans’ antiwar movements); moving footage of Vietnam veterans hurling their medals onto the capitol steps in 1971; an audio recording made by Richard Boyle, journalist and author of The Flower of the Dragon and the Oliver Stone film Salvador, of the combat refusal by troops at Firebase Pace in 1971 that sped up the final withdrawal of U.S. ground forces; and never-before-seen Super-8 and 16mm film footage of events in the GI Movement shot by GIs and civilian activists.
The heart and soul of Sir! No Sir! is found in the individuals who’s stories it tells. A few are:
        • Greg Payton, an African-American, imprisoned at Long Binh Jail for refusing to fight, who was part of the uprising there.
        • Dave Cline, wounded three times in Vietnam and antiwar activist at Ft. Hood, the site of some of the staunchest resistance to the war and racism.
        • Keith Mather, jailed in the Presidio for publicly refusing orders to go to Vietnam and a leader of the Presidio 27 mutiny.
        • Dr. Howard Levy, jailed three years for refusing to train Special Forces troops.
        • Navy nurse Susan Schnall, jailed for dropping leaflets from an airplane onto the Presidio army base.
        • Terry Whitmore, a highly-decorated combat veteran who deserted to Sweden.
        • Members of “WORMS” (We Openly Resist Military Stupidity), Air Force linguists stationed in Asia who went on strike during the 1972 Christmas bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong.
        • And many more of the thousands of GIs who, during what was the worst time in their lives, created something new, dynamic and groundbreaking.

Friday 3/4/11 8:30pm
Saturday 3/5/11 1:00pm
Saturday 3/5/11 5:30pm
Sunday 3/6/11 7:00pm
Friday 3/11/11 10:00pm
Saturday 3/12/11 7:00pm
$9
Broken Leg Stage – 1470 N Van Ness Ave.
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