Women of Washington

Communicating America’s Founding Principles

Women of Washington is an educational organization with a focus on understanding local, national, and global issues that are critical to our world today.

WOW presents a monthly film as an alternative medium for education, entertainment, and promoting classical liberalism: a philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets. The film group generally meets one Wednesday evening of the month. Film nights do not conflict with Speaker events or generally occur on the same Wednesday as Book Club.

Please mark your calendars for 2025:

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025


Time: To allow time for reaching the Theater and getting seated before the 6:30 pm start of the film, please arrive at Aljoya anytime at/after 6pm, no later than 6:20 pm.  After passing the restrooms, enter the second Double Theater Door on your right. Discussion (optional) begins at 8:45am, immediately following the screening. 

Parking:

Mercer Apartments has provided free parking passes to WOW at their lot behind their building. FREE parking is available in the exterior lot between the Chevron, 7655 Sunset Hwy, Mercer Island, WA 98040 and and Aljoya’s rear entrance. Parking passes are available on Film Nights in the Aljoya Theater or by contacting [email protected]. Please put your parking pass on the car front window dashboard. 

For information on the films, to RSVP to a film event or be added to the email contact list, contact [email protected].

Houseboat

Directed by Melville Shavelson

For July 9, 2025 WOW Film Group selected a feature film starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren called “Houseboat”. It’s a fun 1958 romp for summertime. Touching on the political, Cary Grant plays a lawyer working for the US State Department in this rom com set in Washington, DC. Afterward, interestingly, Sophia Loren and Cary Grant had a real life love affair. She loved Italy too much and Grant needed to stay in Hollywood he felt. As we all know she married Carlo Ponti and the rest was history. She is still alive, an icon from the Golden Age of Hollywood and is now 90 and still lovely and gorgeous.

Details

July 9, 2025
6:30 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

Electric Vehicles: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Directed by Larry Elder

Are electric vehicles better for the planet than gasoline-powered vehicles? This is the question we explore in Larry Elder's new documentary “Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

Whether one agrees with former President Joe Biden, who calls climate change “an existential threat,” or whether one agrees with the late physicist Freeman Dyson, who dismissed Al Gore and his “An Inconvenient Truth” as “lousy science,” this question remains. Are electric vehicles better for planet Earth than “gas guzzlers”?

After all, fossil-fuel-generated energy is required to manufacture an electric vehicle and then to transport it to the dealership. The electricity required to charge it comes mostly from fossil-fuel-generated power. 

Electric vehicles are a triumph of technology, with incredible features. They are quiet, fast and fun to drive. The self-driving feature, while not foolproof, will likely save lives because human driving error is more common. (There are some gas-powered cars with a similar feature.) There are concerns about driving range, as well as the availability for charging stations for long drives.

Right now, an EV compared to a gas-powered car of similar size may be more expensive. There are still tax incentives available, but they may be reduced, if not phased out at some point. With the more expensive purchase price, mandates to buy an EV or to restrict the sale of gas cars stand to hurt those less well off.

Then there is the China factor. The computer chips required for the EV disproportionately come from China. The minerals in the batteries — lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese — are mined, processed and manufactured in China, or in places under China’s control, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Take cobalt in the Congo. Two years ago, NPR wrote “How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy.” It featured the work of Siddharth Kara, author of the book “Cobalt Red.” Kara said: “People (including children) are working in subhuman, grinding, degrading conditions. They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain. … Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe — and there are hundreds of thousands of poor Congolese (workers) touching and breathing it day in and day out. Young mothers with babies strapped to their backs, all breathing in this toxic cobalt dust. … There’s complete cross-contamination between industrial excavator-derived cobalt and cobalt dug by women and children with their bare hands (for $1 or $2 a day).

”As for reviews about “Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Paul Bond, veteran journalist formerly of “Newsweek” and “The Hollywood Reporter,” wrote: “Larry Elder’s latest documentary … begins with … provocative claims: EVs might harm the planet more than gas-powered cars, they rely on child labor and open the door to privacy invasions and hacking. … Whether you’re waving a Trump flag or preaching clean living, Elder’s film demands a second look at the EV craze. It’s not just about cars — it’s about who controls your life, your data, and your future.”

Tyler O’Neil of The Daily Signal wrote: “While environmental activists and EV manufacturers have crafted a narrative that EVs are not just the cars of the future but our only clean solution to an ostensible climate crisis, Elder uncovers the dirty truth: EVs require more energy to produce, provide less freedom for drivers, empower America’s chief rival in the world, and actually make things worse for the environment.

‘Mass delusion has always fascinated me,’ Elder says in the film, ‘Scientists, media people, politicians, academics have convinced the average person that our climate is in peril and if we don’t do something real fast to get us off fossil fuels, we’re going to be in trouble. I just, intuitively, am skeptical about that.'”

“He asks the hard questions and comes away with unsettling answers — for the proponents of EVs. Ironically, only the oft-demonized fossil fuels give viewers a sense of hope for the future, and many political and ideological forces are attempting to snuff out the lights powered by the internal combustion engine.”

“Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is available on SalemNow.com. (run time 1 hour, 28 minutes)

Details

June 18, 2025
6:30 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

All the President’s Men

Directed by Sean Stone (son of famous director Oliver Stone)

This documentary is one of a six-part series exposing the coordinated attack on Trump supporters revealing untold stories of personal sacrifice, political corruption, and the fight to preserve our constitutional Republic. The episode we are showing delves into the journey of Tucker Carlson, from his beginnings as a conservative commentator to becoming one of the most controversial and powerful voices in American media. Run time is 82 minutes.

Details

May 21, 2025
6:00 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

The Relentless Patriot, the Scott LoBaido Story.

Directed by Christopher Martini

For 30 years, Scott LoBaido has been a voice; fighting with you and for you on so many issues: promoting and celebrating Old Glory, those who serve, and our great American way, using art, heart, and passion. Now it is time to tell his story, the good, the bad and the ugly that got him to where he is today. He is advocating as a giant voice for you, the American People, through the unusual suspect…Art. An inspiring American Story of art, patriotism, and activism, told with tons of stills and video footage from Scott’s extensive career, that will surely blow your mind. After 30 years, this story must be told…. NOW more than ever. This is a wild-ride film like no other and a call to action at a time like no other. This documentary will definitely fire up the patriotic passion in the American people and will give Scott the grand-scale stage to encourage all Americans to join him as he continues to be your voice, as big tech and the media at large fight to erase us every day. We plan to embark on a nationwide tour with our documentary, “The Relentless Patriot”, targeting conservative cities leading up to the film’s release on June 14, 2024, coinciding with Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s birthday. By strategically organizing screenings in these communities, we aim to create a grassroots movement, engaging with conservative and patriotic-minded individuals. These screenings will not only generate anticipation for the film but also foster a sense of community and shared values. We believe this approach will help build momentum, generating word-of-mouth support and creating a strong foundation for a successful box office presence among our target audience. With an endorsement from President Donald J. Trump, this film is sure to inspire those who believe in the American flag and everything that stands behind it. 

Details

April 9, 2025
6:00 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

Reagan

Directed by Sean McNamara

Released August 2024, Reagan will be screened Wednesday, March 12. Starring Dennis Quaid, this 135-minute biography follows Soviet spy Viktor Novikov (Jon Voigt), who narrates the story of Ronald Reagan to a new Russian leader, explaining why the Soviet Union fell. The drama is based on Paul Kengor's 2006 book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.

https://www.reagan.movie/

Location: Aljoya Mercer Island Theater, 2430 76th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040 https://www.eraliving.com/community/aljoya-mercer-island/
Time: 6:30pm Screening. Please arrive anytime at/after 6pm.
Discussion: 8:45pm begins. (Attendance optional.)
Free Parking: Behind The Mercer Apartment Homes (Between Chevron, 7655 Sunset Hwy, Mercer Island, WA 98040 & Aljoya (ERA Living))
Thanks to The Mercer Apartment Homes, Parking Sponsor: https://www.themercer.com/

Details

March 12, 2025
6:30 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

Forensic Arborist, Robert Brame

 We will be viewing an hour-long interview of Forensic Arborist, Robert Brame. He shares extensive and shocking photo evidence from a variety of fires across CA (note: this predates the current CA Apocalypse). Time permitting, we will view brief clips of information about the LA fires. The interview and discussion is not intended to fuel conspiracy theories but help us become critical consumers of information.  

Time: 6:30 pm (You are welcome to arrive anytime at/after 6 pm)
Discussion: Begins @ 8:00 pm

Details

February 19, 2025
6:30 pm

FREE EVENT

Venue

Aljoya In-House Theater
2430 76th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040