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Saturday 28th June,
8pm
Filmscreening: 'The Black Panthers
(in Israel) speak', a film by Eli Hamo & Sami Shalom Chetrit
(2003)
To conclude our Trilogy about Israeli
Protest Movements we would like to screen the film about the Black Panthers in
Israel. Last week Reuven Aberjil spoke about the history of the Arab (Mizrahi)
Jews and the struggle of the Black Panther movement. If you want to know and see
more about the Israeli Black Panthers, come and see the film on Saturday.
You can also join the tour of
the Musrara neighborhood in Jerusalem, tomorrow at 10am (see information
below)
The
uprising of the Black Panthers in the early 1970s
had a radical effect on Israeli society. It signaled an awakening of Mizrahi
cultural consciousness that continues to this day. The movement took the
Mizrahi/class struggle out of its local and nationalist Jewish framework,
linking it to the civil rights struggle in the United States, Third World
Marxism, and, for the first time, to the Palestinian struggle in Israel. In this
film, key leaders in the movement speak of the Mizrahi struggle in the 1970s and
now, of the tragic role played by Shas in quelling that struggle, of the
relationship between the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians, and the
social and cultural oppression of the Mizrahim.
The AICafe is open on Tuesday and Saturday night from 7pm. It is
located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, close to Suq a
Shaab square (follow the sign to Jadal Center) We have a small library with both
novels and political books and magazines. Phone number; 02
2775444
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