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Please help tell this important story! To help offset production costs, please donate to our fundraising campaign: igg.me/at/UpstairsInferno/x/83651 "UPSTAIRS INFERNO" is the eagerly anticipated followup film to the award winning documentary, "Raid of the Rainbow Lounge". After months in development, production has begun. Directed by Robert L. Camina. Forty years ago, on June 24, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans called the Upstairs Lounge was firebombed, resulting in the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history. Despite that, few people know about the tragedy. Thirty-two people were killed and some bodies were never identified because their families were ashamed that the victims were gay. No one was ever charged with the crime. It appears that the grisly fire had a devastating impact on the New Orleans LGBT community. While the Stonewall Riots in New York City only four years earlier united a community, the fire caused many in the New Orleans gay community to stay in the closet. Why isn't this story more prevalent in our culture? Why don't we know about it? It's as historic as the Stonewall Inn raid, but it doesn't exist in the common LGBT history narrative. That needs to change! UPSTAIRS INFERNO will finally reveal this story to a national and international audience. "It is crucial to acknowledge, preserve and honor our history as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. The LGBT dialogue has changed so much in the past few years. As popular attitudes shift on LGBT issues, we risk losing the stories of the struggles that got us where we are today. It's our responsibility to honor the memories of those who came before us, including those who died at the Upstairs Lounge" says Camina. "The men and women who experienced this tragedy paved the way for the freedoms enjoyed by the New Orleans LGBT community of today, as well as the overall LGBT movement. UPSTAIRS INFERNO intends to honor their forgotten stories." An IndieGoGo fundraising campaign was launched this week to help cover production costs for preserving the UPSTAIRS INFERNO tragedy on film. It continues for 45 days, but donors shouldn't hesitate. People can donate to the film and help tell this vital story by following the link on upstairsinferno.com. Camina's full length film aims to tell the story primarily through emotional interviews of survivors, families of victims and key players involved with the aftermath. UPSTAIRS INFERNO will also feature interviews with historians, experts and current leaders of the New Orleans LGBT community. Police reports, crime scene photographs, personal photographs, newspaper clippings and video clips from local news stations will support the interviews. The film will also feature footage from next week's 40th anniversary memorial services, which will be held in New Orleans on June 24th. "We don't want the film to simply be a stagnant exposition of facts. To truly understand the impact of this tragedy, you have to find the humanity in the story and build an emotional connection. The audience will relive the roller coaster of events through the eyes of those who lived through it. A full length film will allow us to not only provide the historical background, but also pay respect to the hearts in the story", says Camina. "With access to a new leads, the film is pursuing untold avenues of the story! This film will take us on a journey that will educate, enlighten and hopefully lead us to new revelations and possibly some closure." Camina's previous documentary, "Raid of the Rainbow Lounge" recounted the widely publicized and controversial June 28, 2009 police raid of a Fort Worth,Texas gay bar that resulted in multiple arrests and serious injuries. The film, narrated by TV icon Meredith Baxter, continues to engage sold-out audiences across the country! Over the past 15 months, the documentary has screened over 35 times, including 29 mainstream and LGBT film festivals across the United States, Mexico and Canada. The film has won several awards including 3 "Best" Film and 3 "Audience Choice" Awards. The film also received attention from the Office of the White House, Department of Justice and a division of the U.S. State Department. (RaidoftheRainbowLounge.com) UPSTAIRS INFERNO Anticipated release: 2014 Estimated run time: 70-80 minutes. Directed and produced by Robert L. Camina More information is available at upstairsinferno.com Facebook page: facebook.com/UpstairsInferno Twitter page: @UpstairsInferno

• published: 03 Jul 2013
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Welcome to Resurrection Life of Jesus Church This is a video from our weekly webcast. Sunday Service: 10:30AM PST Thursday Bible Study: 7:00PM PST eaec.org/​webcast.htm We are a Bible centered group of believers in Sacramento, California, who desire to grow in the full knowledge of Jesus Christ without compromise to His Word. We believe, teach and practice all things that Jesus taught and that were practiced by the Church in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. Our ministry is geared to strengthen people who are walking with Christ by equipping them to reach the younger generations so that God will continue to have some mighty men and women to proclaim the good news of the Gospel. ABOUT THE VIDEO When Pharaoh refused to let Moses and the people of Israel leave Egypt, God initiated ten plagues that financially and physically destroyed Egypt. After the tenth plague, Egypt was laid waste and has never recovered since that time. God has allowed selective judgments on our nation, but size and power dramatically increased in August of 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and laid to waste the city of New Orleans. Thousands of people were killed and the damage was estimated around 81 billion dollars. Less than a month later Hurricane Rita slammed into Louisiana and Texas and caused damage to the tune of 11.3 billion dollars. Since these two powerful hurricanes slammed into the United States, there was the BP oil spill in the Gulf that spewed out oil for three months and destroyed wildlife and fishing from Texas to Florida. From 2010 there has been severe flooding in many states, fires burning million of acres and while some areas are covered with water, other areas are in drought. The crops were destroyed for farmers and that means higher food prices. Earlier this year the citrus crop in Florida was damaged by freezing temperatures and right now 17 states in the Midwest, including Texas and Minnesota, have been baking for weeks in a triple digit heat wave. God is also judging America in her finances. We have not recovered from the recession and more than 10% of the American work force is still unemployed. If we add all these disasters together, it is obvious that our nation has never been hit by so many disasters so close together. I have lived in the United States since 1963 and have never seen anything on this scale. I believe that God is trying to break us and bring us to repentance just like was done with Egypt so many years ago. In the meantime the homosexual community is gloating over two victories: homosexual marriages are legal in the state of New York and the mandate for California schools to teach homosexual history in public schools. I have not heard any prominent American pastor or television evangelist calling the nation to repentance. Governor Rick Perry of Texas has called for a day of prayer for the nation on August 6th and 6,000 people have sent in their registration as of July 18th. Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma called for a day of prayer on July 17th to break the deadly heat wave that is threatening the lives of people and livestock in that state. Some may look upon it as political posturing but it looks like our elected leaders are waking up while the pastors are sleeping. The sad thing is that a left-wing organization has filed suit against Texas and its governor, claiming that it is unconstitutional for a political leader to call for a prayer meeting. Is the current heat wave in the United States a precursor to what is described in the Book of Revelation? “And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.” (Revelation 16:8-9) How long will it be before God starts his judgment on the state of California? So far we have been spared from much of the damage done to the rest of the nation. God is not mocked, and unless America repents as a nation, the hammer will come down harder and harder until we repent or are destroyed. If the pastors are not standing in their pulpits and preaching “Thus says the Lord,” how can the people repent? Have you repented? Have you turned from your sins? Are you warning people? “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” (Galatians 6:7-9) http://www.eaec.org/desk/07-17-2011.htm

• published: 19 Jul 2011
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