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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Showing
Thursday, Jan 8th, in Cambridge:<br>
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src="cid:part1.01050407.07000205@mynas.com" align="right" height="566"
hspace="10" width="440">Children of Shatila</big><span style=""><big> </big>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More
than 350,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon,
15,000 of them in the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut. Through the
eyes of
two children who live in this camp<b style="">, Issa</b>
and <b style="">Farah</b>, this documentary explores
the determination to keep family and dreams thriving in a landscape
that has
been sculpted by war, poverty, grief and displacement. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Issa</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, a little
boy who lives with his grandfather, sustained
severe injuries when he was hit by a speeding car and has trouble
learning in
school. <b style="">Farah</b> lives with her parents
and two sisters. The children’s memories and history are shaped by the
violence
that surrounds them. Both have lost family in massacres by Israel and
attacks that
followed the 1948 Diaspora and in Israel's 1982 invasion of and assault
on Lebanon. An
aunt
was decapitated, an uncle shot — every family and friend they know has
lost
someone to Israel's violence. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
filmmaker gives
Issa and Farah a small video camera to film their lives and learn how
they see
their own world. Both children start asking their elders how they felt
about
leaving Palestine. When queried about what he wants to tell the new
generation
of Palestinians, an old man asks that Palestine must never be
forgotten.
“Promise me that,” he tells the children.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
children inspire viewers with their ability to keep their hearts and
minds
open. Farah tells a nursery class, <b style=""><i style="">“Imagining
is the main thing, even if you
only draw a bird.</i></b>” And<b style=""> Issa has
a wonderful dream where he is a prince.</b></span><b style=""><span
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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>When/where</b><br>
7 pm<br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, <br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rule19.org/videos">http://rule19.org/videos</a><br>
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Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! Free <br>
film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.<br>
[donations are accepted]<br>
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"</font></font><i><span class="body">You can't legislate good will -
that comes through education.</span></i>" ~ Malcolm X<br>
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<i style=""><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“No people
anywhere in the world would accept being
expelled en masse from their country; how can anyone require the people
of
Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?</span></i><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">” ~Bertrand
Russell</span><br>
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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>UPandOUT
film series - see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rule19.org/videos">http://rule19.org/videos</a></b><br>
Why should YOU care? It's your money that pays for the occupation &
<br>
illegal Israeli settlements.<br>
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<b>[NOTE </b> beginning Jan 2009, our screenings will be every <b>2nd
Tuesday</b> of the
month </font><br>
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<font color="#ff0000">'<i>If you don't take responsibility for what
goes in your mind, someone else
will</i>"</font>
<p>pf soto<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rule19.org">rule19.org</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://upandout.org">UPandOUT.org</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://azapoi.org">AZAPOI.org</a><br>
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