[R-G] Palestine Truth Tour 2002 (Thu., 10/24), Etc.

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Thursday, October 24, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Palestine Truth Tour 2002
Featuring:
* New Video From Palestine by Big Noise Films (the producer of 
Showdown in Seattle, Black and Gold, Zapatista, 9.11) featuring 
Mustafa Barghouthi, Hanan Ashrawi, and recent footage from Jenin, 
Hebron, and more.
*Reports from International Solidarity Movement activists who 
recently returned from Freedom Summer in Palestine, and activists 
from Palestine solidarity and other movements.
Location: 300 Journalism Building, Ohio State University, 242 West 
18th Ave., Columbus, OH
Campus Map: <http://www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Sponsors: Student International Forum & Social Welfare Action Alliance
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554 or <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
Download the flyer at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/PalTruth-GazaStrip.doc>!

Saturday, October 26
NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON DC to STOP the WAR ON IRAQ.  For details, see
<http://www.InternationalANSWER.org>.
For info about transportation from Columbus to D.C., call the 
Community Organizing Center at 614-252-9255.

Sunday, October 27
War Without End? Not In Our Name!
Demonstrate against Bush's Endless War!
Time: 5-6 PM
Location: 15th Ave. and High St., Columbus, OH
Contact: 614-252-9255

Thursday, October 31, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Screening: Gaza Strip (Dir. James Longley, 2001)
*****   Like most news reports and television images coming out of 
the Middle East these days, "Gaza Strip," an unsparing new 
documentary by James Longley, offers little reason for optimism.  The 
film, which opens today at the Anthology Film Archives in the East 
Village, was shot in the winter and spring of 2001, and it provides a 
grim, upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million 
Palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of 
Gaza.  Mr. Longley makes powerful use of the techniques of cinéma 
vérité. The absence of voice-over narration and talking-head 
interviews gives his portrait of daily life under duress a riveting 
immediacy.  Much of "Gaza Strip" follows Mohammed Hejazi, a 
13-year-old newspaper vendor.  This youth, who left school after the 
second grade, spends much of his spare time with other boys throwing 
rocks at Israeli soldiers, even though his best friend was killed by 
the gunfire that is the inevitable response, and his father, who had 
spent time in an Israeli prison, once tied his son up to keep him at 
home.  Mohammed presents a mixture of hardened cynicism and childish 
innocence that is both heartbreaking and unnerving. He is equally 
contemptuous of Ariel Sharon, whose election as prime minister takes 
place early in the film, of Mr. Sharon's predecessor Ehud Barak and 
of Yasir Arafat, and he fluctuates between weary sorrow and 
militaristic bravado. ("We want weapons. We don't want 
food.")...There are moments in "Gaza Strip" that disclose a wrenching 
human reality deeper and more basic than any politics.  At one point 
Mohammed muses on death and the afterlife.  His words cut against 
much of what we have heard lately about the Muslim view of martyrdom 
and paradise.  He imagines receiving a stern interrogation from God - 
"Why did you throw those rocks?" "Why did you steal?" - after which 
he will be sent to heaven or hell, he doesn't know which.  After some 
thought, he decides that he would be happiest in the solitude of 
purgatory.  Such is the aspiration of a boy in Gaza.   (A.O. Scott, 
New York Times 1/8/02)   *****
Cf. <http://www.littleredbutton.com/gaza/>
Location: 300 Journalism Building, Ohio State University, 242 West 
18th Ave., Columbus, OH
Campus Map: <http://www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Sponsors: Student International Forum & Social Welfare Action Alliance
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554 or <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
Download the flyer at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/PalTruth-GazaStrip.doc>!
-- 
Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: 
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
* Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html>
* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>