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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cora Zaletel
November 7, 2003 Executive Director, 
Development and Communications
(719) 549-2810

Colorado State University-Pueblo to view, discuss documentary of India

Pueblo -- Colorado State University-Pueblo's Women's Studies program will offer a free viewing of the documentary DAM/AGE, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11 in the Occhiato Center West Ballroom. This event is free and open to the general public.

DAM/AGE is a film about India's environment and water. It also features voices of disenfranchised peoples within the democracy and examines the activism of Arundhati Roy, Indian writer, actor, and screenplay writer.

Following the showing of the film will be a discussion by a panel of CSU-Pueblo faculty experts with different perspectives of the film: William Beverly, assistant professor of social work, social justice issues; Margaret Senatore, English, looking at the film as film; Bea Spade, associate professor, History, Indian history and culture; Cindy Taylor, associate professor of English and foreign languages, ecofeminism

Refreshments will be provided following the 50-minute film.

For more information, contact Carol Loats at 549-2348.

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