This year African American History Month overlaps with Israeli Apartheid Week.
Join us at 7:00 pm on Friday, February 28 at 4200 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis for a film showing of Al Helm [The Dream]: Martin Luther King in Palestine. (Suggested donation $5.00; no one turned away).
“What would happen if African-American Christians – the same group who served as exemplars of the Civil Rights Movement – could witness first-hand the plight of Palestinians today?” asks the Vancouver International film festival. The film is about an African-American gospel choir visiting Palestine to produce Clayborne Carson’s play about Martin Luther King Jr., called Passages of Martin Luther King. They witness life under occupation and the non-violent movement for social justice. You can watch the trailer here: http://www.clarityfilms.org/mlk/.
Jim Haber, in his review of the film on Mondoweiss writes, “Beyond its excellent production quality, Al Helm—Arabic for “the dream”— has great crossover potential because it shows several (largely) apolitical, Black Americans meeting a people still locked in the nightmare of oppression. Their experiences at first seem just confusing to them, then political, and ultimately political and very personal.”
This film showing is sponsored by Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC) and the University of Minnesota Students for Justice in Palestine (MN SJP).