THEY WERE PROMISED THE SEA - FILM AND DISCUSSION


featuring Kathy Wazana, documentary filmmaker and founder of Cooks for Peace and the Toronto Just Peace Seder and Amirah Mizrahi, a queer Mizrahi (Moroccan/Palestinian) artist and educator

Thursday Febuary 19th  7:00-9:30

South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis Street, Berkeley CA (near Ashby BART)

Join us for this myth-shattering documentary that investigates the 1960’s exodus of Morocco’s Arab Jewish population to Israel. Film will be followed by a conversation and Q & A with Kathy Wazana and Amirah Mizrahi. 

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1540795592866305/

$10-$20 Suggested Donation, no one turned away

Hosted by JVP Bay Area
Cosponsored by Middle East Peace Committee of Kehilla Synagogue, MECA (Middle East Children’s Alliance), Arab Film Festival and Bay Area Women in Black

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RESISTANCE GROWS IN HAITI

5 Years After the Earthquake
11 Years After the Coup

SUNDAY, March 1, 3-5PM
Humanist Hall
390 - 27th Street
Oakland

SAVE THE DATE!

Join Haiti Action Committee on the 11th anniversary of the US-backed 2004 coup that overthrew democracy in Haiti. While the US/UN occupation continues to impose President Martelly's dictatorship, popular resistance in Haiti grows.

A two-day general strike ended yesterday that paralyzed Port-au-Prince and many other cities. The popular movements are striking to demand that the entire Martelly government resign. They’re also protesting governmental repression and corruption. Haiti faces a constitutional and profound political crisis.

Join us on March 1st for an in-depth look at this situation.

Sent by Haiti Action Committee

www.haitisolidarity.net and on FACEBOOK

Follow us on Twitter @HaitiAction1

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THE MOSQUE OF PARIS:

How Muslims in Paris Sheltered Jews during World War II

Join Ecumenical Peace Institute and the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists ' Hal Carlstad Social Justice Center in welcoming Annette Herskovits (PhD). Dr. Herskovits will tell the story of how she survived as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Paris and present a short film about how the Mosque of Paris sheltered Jews.

She will also speak of the several hundred thousand Muslim men from the French colonies who fought the Nazis with the Allies and suffered disproportionate casualties. A slide show of personal and historical photos will accompany the talk.

Thursday, March 12, 7:00 p.m.   BFUU Fellowship Hall,
1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Ave.), Berkeley
For information call 510 - 990-0374 or 510-275-4272
visit www.bfuu.org

This event is part of BFUU's Conscientious Projector series.