Previous Movies On The Grass

2008: The forth year for MOG! With the big national elections of 2008, we featured the film Hacking Democracy. It was by Michael Franti's I Know I'm Not Alone focusing on peace in the middle-East. King Corn was a hit with 2 college kids planting an acre of Iowa corn. The series culminated with Darwin's Nightmare about the introduction of a commerial fish caused a wide-spread enivironmental distaster in Africa. See more information on these movies by visiting the featured movie web sites.

• 8/24 Hacking Democracy
• 9/07 I Know I'm Not Alone
• 9/14 King Corn
• 9/21 Darwin's Nightmare

2007: Movies on the Grass in its third year. This year Movies on the Grass were especially exciting when we hosted an Electric Car Show and a concert by the Brazilian group AfroReggae on the first two evenings respectively. For more information on these events click on the corresponding links. For more information on the movies, click on the links below to go to each of the films website.

Visit the series announcement in the DowMRC's What's the Haps? blog.

• 8/19 Who Killed The Electric Car?
• 8/26 Favela Rising
• 9/09 Maxed Out
• 9/16 Yesterday

Movies on the Grass makes national news!!! Read the article here.

Click Here to watch AfroReggae in concert at K-State

2006: Amnesty International Group 254 was a proud co-sponsor of the second year production, free outdoor film and discussion series. The following films were shown free of charge Sunday evenings at 8:00pm from August 20th – September 17.

• 8/20 North Country
• 8/27 Born Into Brothels
• 9/10 End of Suburbia
• 9/17 Invisible Children

The following organizations co-sponsored this film series: ACTION; Amnesty International Group 254; Art Student Council; Campaign for Non-violence; Crossroads Ecumenical Christian Ministries; Dow Chemical Multi-cultural Resource Center; Indian Student Association; Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy; KSU Libraries; KSU Women's Center; Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice; Office of Diversity and Dual Career Development; Ordinary Women; Progressive Coalition; Students for Environmental Action; and Student Governing Association. Join us, and enjoy the evening!

2005: Amnesty International Group 254 was a proud co-sponsor for Movies on the Grass. The movies drew a large audience on every showing for this first innaguaral year. Movie dates were from September 11 – October 16.

• 9/18 Oil on Ice
• 9/25 Occupation Dreamland - a HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH traveling film festival selection
• 10/09 Store Wars; When Walmart Comes to Town and Mardi Gras Made in China - a HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH traveling film festival selection
• 10/16 Stop the Traffick and The Education of Shelby Knox - a HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH traveling film festival selection

The following organizations co-sponsored this film series: Amnesty International Group 254; Campaign for Non-violence; Crossroads Ecumenical Christian Ministries; Dow Chemical Multi-cultural Resource Center; Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy; KSU Libraries; Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice; Northern Flint Hills Audubon Society; Office of Diversity and Dual Career Development; Progressive Coalition; Queer Straight Alliance; Students for Environmental Action; and Young Democrats. Join us, and enjoy the evening!