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I reviewed  this Great Bioethics Movie in theaters in the USA now. 

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September Williams MD-Writer Joins Sister Writers at Sausilito Books By the Bay for Women's History Month

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Paula Farmers Annual Race in America Series At Book Passage, Marin

Join Us - - in Person or on the Book Passage Website

Paula Farmer is force of nature. Looking for a guide to reading and watching relevant new literature. Paula Farmer is a one stop shopping on paper, brick and mortar book store (Book Passage Marin), film commentary, regular Instagram shows with noted Authors and Activist in their films. And I’m not biased because she supports all of my creative work — but cause she’s really good at what she does.

I’ll be there virtually — join us— 3 Days of RACE IN AMERICA She has for several years done a major review of new books and dialog —with authors and readers, live or online. This includes a number of pop up type Instagram shows monthly — you can join in person , or often the chats available after online on the Book Passage website. This is already one of hardest few months of violence in my lived history related to race and class… and its only January. You don’t wanna go there? It means you really should Join us.

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AN ACT OF UNITY by Cedric O'Bannon at SF International New Concept Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AN ACT OF UNITY AT San Francisco New Concept Film Festival

AN ACT OF UNITY (AAOU) is a Flash Documentary by African American Director Cedric O’Bannon, Video Journalist and Media Consultant, Cedric O’Bannon with co-producer writer September Williams. Both filmmakers are NWU and IFJ members. The film was selected by the San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival. The festival runs Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, October 30, 2022.

The last day of the festival includes a Red Carpet, the awarded films will be revealed and screened in their different categories. AN ACT OF UNITY trailer is already on the festival website in the “short documentary” section. Over the past year AN ACT OF UNITY has been recognized in festivals in Singapore, India, Canada, and now in the filmmakers home region the USA, San Francisco Bay area. The location of the screenings is the Herbst Theater/War Memorial at the San Francisco Civic Center.

AN ACT OF UNITY shows demonstrators memorializing Micheal Brown’s life by protesting against police killings of specifically unarmed Black people, unarmed poor people, and any other unarmed people in the USA. The film focuses on the Demonstration that occurred at Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, CA in 2015. Part of Micheal Brown’s legacy is that because of him now death by fire arms including fatal police shootings are being studied by race, ethnicity, wealth disparities and access to guns. Numbers don’t lie only people do.

Filmmaker and video journalist Cedric O’Bannon, realized that he was still holding in his archives video footage of the aforementioned demonstration. It did not escape him that mainstream media rarely shows different peoples of color supporting the dignity of others. AN ACT OF UNITY shows that in Oakland it can, does, and did. Eight years later O’Bannon’s footage and film  is still and even more relevant.

Please join the Filmmakers of AN ACT OF UNITY at the San Francisco New Concept Film Festival—and plan to support them in the future. (By the way the “new concept” is that the festival is more than just films with new concepts.) This is the 9th year of this festival. Tickets available for 10/30/22 Awards ceremony which includes winning films screening. Wish us luck! Check the festival website for the Trailer of AN ACT OF UNITY.

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Ratification of the United Nations convention on mercury 2017, Geneva. from september williams on Vimeo.

Capital I PEN members demonstrate concern about things which have not held major focus during the dialogue about mercury contamination cleanup and control over its uses.

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12/29/2021 5PM PST/8PM EST: Cedric O'Bannon's An EXERCISE IN EMPATHY at Kwanzaa Film Festival, Harlem

Since I Know you want to go to the Kwanza Film Festival Page, Browse and like it. It’s also were you will find information about workshops and other activities and screenings. https://www.facebook.com/KwanzaaFilmFest — All the best for the season!

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NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH COMMEMORATION@Book Passage/Thurs 11/18/2021, 5:30PM

Thurs, November 18th • 5:30pm PT • Live •

Online https://www.bookpassage.com/event/special-event-native-heritage-panel-online-event

Featuring Calvin Crosby, Denise Low, Georgina Marie, Kim Shuck, Martin Smith & David Weiden - Read the comparative writings at the website as well as hearing the authors present. See you there.

Featuring Calvin Crosby, Denise Low, Georgina Marie, Kim Shuck, Martin Smith & David Weiden

Moderated by (the inimitable )Paula Farmer!

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September Williams, MD-Writer Talks Film at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

So — later this month, on 9/21/2021, I will talk about complex screen works, not just medical TV, where we try to make it all “real” but the producers don’t care to. What is most important in my story (to me) is that 25 years later, Dr. Franklin is still making me think about things more deeply — just as he had when I was on call in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, ICU as a resident.

Films are made of serial photographs. However, a single shot can tell a whole story itself. I call this particluar single shot: “Permission to Breathe.” It is a sunset over Lake Merritt, Oakland. Like this photo, complex screen-works can help you go places at times when you are least likely able to do so. That tall white building with the flag pole on top, in the background, that’s the Alameda County Courthouse. It is where members of the Black Panther Party stood more than once in protest of racism and poverty. If we aided a frame of that image — we would have the beginning and ending of a complex screen narrative.

Please join us later this month while I try to explain what I’m thinking.

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September Williams Reads “ A Love Letter to My Juneteenth Baby” at Book Passage

Join us this: Sat., June 19th • 4:00pm PT • Online The written works are already available on line. And each author will be reading their works on line. Featured Authors are : Kia Corthron, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Rhonda V. Magee, Jason Mott (submission read by Ernest Jolly), Zach Norris (submission read by Chris Bass), Anna Malaika Tubbs & September Williams, and Moderated by Paula Farmer (@paulawritesreviews)

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MEDIA RELEASE; BATH PARTY FOR UNHOUSED PEOPLE

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LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA'S LIFE: A Book Review

A Book Children’s Book Review: LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE 

Belinda Hernández Arriaga and Veronica Castillo’s children’s picture book LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE is a bold and beautiful addition to the cannon of children’s literature. That boldness is in prose, art, and therapeutic concept.LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE acknowledges that adults can try to run away from the reality that their children live in a disparate world — but they cannot hide from it forever.

It is a children’s book for a child, but, for parents, older siblings, friends, and teachers— it is a road map. It is a way to build an emotional safety net for children and families who are disproportionately affected, by forced deportation, incarceration, and early death. This book is not for “the faint of heart”.

As a Bioethicist — I am aware that writings on loss involving children usually are directed at parents who loose children. LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE acknowledges that there are whole generations of children who loose their adults, and siblings, who also need support and protection from the most virulent consequence of their valid fears, the allostatic load of oppression, and potentially devastating grief.

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An Historical Link to Bioethics: The author of LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE is Belinda Hernández Arriaga, Ed. D, MSW, LCSW. Dr. Arriaga is an assistant professor of psychology at University of San Francisco. The University of San Francisco has had a profound presence in the history of bioethics. And Dr. Arriaga’s cross disciplinary work truly reflects that history.

Though I feel somewhat like a character out of the animated film INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE saying this, Bioethics is a cross disciplinary field, clinical ethics is one aspect of it. But there are no coincidences in the universe — so how a book for kids and their families is related to bioethics “…one more time;”

The recently late Dr. Albert Jonsen PhD (1931-2020) was the president of University of San Francisco from 1969- to 1972, Where Dr. Arriaga trained and completed her doctorate in education and following her work in therapy. From 1972-1973 Dr. Jonsen left the University of San Francisco answering the cal to be on on National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research), charged with formulating regulations and clarifying the bioethical paradigm that should govern the use of humans research studies —across race class and culture. The report of the commission was in part written by Dr. Jonsen as well and it is named the Belmont Report because the commissioners met in the Belmont Hotel in washington for those years.

The report has been codified in the Federal Registry of policy and procedure for all research, drug development , public health medical and such related to human beings in the USA. It has become the model for bioethically sound medical related research and drug development for much the world. Al Jonsen was among the named authors of the Belmont Report.

The Belmont Commission and the subsequent report arose from the demand by the 600 African American Men who had been immorally and anti-scientific supposed research study on “The Natural History of Syphilis in the Negro Male'‘ by the US PUBLIC HEALTH SEVICE — from the 1930s to the 1970s— being denied treatment for the disease for more than 30 years after Penicillin had become— and remains— the primary treatment for Syphilis. The Belmont Report is the summary of the application of the findings from the congressional hearing which the men in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study demanded be done as apart of their law suit which was settled under gag order. The men wanted to prevent further atrocities of the like they had suffered to reoccur under USA purview so despite the gag order they demanded the inquiry and the commission, and the report and establishing scientifically valid research protocols for all USA funded medical research.

Dr. Belinda Hernández Arriaga’s cross disciplinary, cross racial, cross cultural clinical work with a vulnerable client population derived from the need to serve her community as well as history. It is a direct extension of the work demanded by 600 Black men a Tuskeggee Alabama through their already and still incomparable famed attorney Reverend Fred Gray, Esq. Dr. Hernandez’s work across race classed culture was outlined broadly, and is related to the rules of medical and psychological care as requiring prima-facie dependence on the bioethical rules of Beneficience, Autonomy and Justice. Precisely the same principles which the children’s book LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE so elegantly wields.

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September Williams at Women's Empowerment Open Mic /Kathleen Torian Taylor Book Launch

Launch/reading for Kathleen Torian Taylor's suspense novel DEATH BY ARRANGEMENT, followed by a women's empowerment themed open mic where September Williams read a short preview of WEIGHING LEAD , the second book of the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy—along with many other authors.

FOR BOOK LOVERS IT’S A AGREAT WAY TO KICK OFF VALENTINES DAY WEEKEND DURING A PANDEMIC! Free - Register at Eventbrite

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A THOUSAND CUTS Film Virtual Live Stream Question and Answer with Christine Amanpour, Ramona Diaz , Maria Ressa.

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September Williams supports film: A Thousand Cuts Virtual Opening August 8, 2010

September Williams MD-Writer supports the film A THOUSAND CUTS directed by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND) and featuring the work of Philipino Journalist Maria Ressa ( CEO of news organization Rappler.)

Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Cl Click here: Release Date August 7, 2020, USA nationwide, Running Time: 98 minutes, Language: English/Tagalog with English Subtitles. The release is virtual and the link will take you to more information.