Film
8 Borders, 8 Days Film Screening
Maybeck High School 2727 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAmnesty International Maybeck High School Group in Berkeley, CA will host a film screening and discussion of 8 Borders, 8 Days on Friday, February 16th from 4:00-5:30pm.
Leaving Fear Behind
Esquire Theatre 320 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH, United StatesJoin us for LEAVING FEAR BEHIND May 19th at 1:00pm. Presented by Amnesty International Group 86, This 25min film will be followed by a Q and A discussion with the filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen, his wife Lhamo Tso and our AIUSA Executive Director Margaret Huang. Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker imprisoned by the Chinese government …
Group 86 Film Screening in Cincinnati: “Leaving Fear Behind”
Esquire Theatre 320 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH, United StatesThis a special event for our chapter, as the filmmaker, Dhondup Wangchen, was our group’s case commitment for over six years. Dhondup, a Tibetan filmmaker, was arrested and imprisoned in China on charges of 'subversion' for making and showing this documentary before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Though freed from prison in 2017, Dhondup was forbidden …
Free Shawkan with Amnesty International San Francisco Group 30 and USF
University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street, McLaren Center 252, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPlease join Amnesty International San Francisco Group 30 For a call to action for Shawkan and press freedom Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Kim Komenich in conversation with award-winning San Francisco-based Egyptian photojournalist and filmmaker Khaled Sayed Join us for an evening of discussion and film clips about Shawkan, jailed journalists, and issues of press freedom …
Refugee Journey: Rescuing Lives
24th Street Theater at Sierra 2 Center 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA, United StatesSacramento, California, Wednesday October 3, 2018. Join Amnesty International Sacramento group as we partner with International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Doctors Without Borders for an evening about the world refugee crisis. The event starts at 6:15 with the short film Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis, followed by a panel of experts to update on the …
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BRONX CHAPTER WRITE 4 RIGHTS
Bronx Community College 2155 University Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesAIUSA Bronx Chapter have partnered with Peace December, Safari Yangu Immigrant Stories, Bronx Community college students and four other different organizations to organize a community event that will include the following- 1. Write 4 Rights- Letter writing 2. Candle lighting in solidarity with those killed, unjustly incarcerated or facing different forms of abuse. 3. Networking …
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BRONX CHAPTER WRITE 4 RIGHTS
AIUSA Bronx Chapter have partnered with Peace December, Safari Yangu Immigrant Stories, Bronx Community college students and four other different organizations to organize a community event that will include the following- 1. Write 4 Rights- Letter writing 2. Candle lighting in solidarity with those killed, unjustly incarcerated or facing different forms of abuse. 3. Networking …
Longer Table Event at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School!
Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School 123 Coles St., Jersey City, NJ, United StatesThis Amnesty Group is hosting a potluck dinner in support of refugee and migrant rights, with representatives from their local refugee resettlement agency and refugees in their community. Come join them for a night of discovery and awareness to learn about the challenges that refugees and asylum seekers face across the world and in the …
Film screening of “Icebox”
"Icebox" is the story of Oscar, a 12-year-old Honduran schoolboy who flees forced recruitment by a violent gang. When he arrives at the U.S. border, he struggles to gain some control over his fate, while being held with other unaccompanied children in an "icebox" (cage) detention center and facing an impatient asylum judge alone without …
Film Screening & Panel Discussion: The Feeling of Being Watched
City Garden Montessori 1618 Tower Grove, St. Louis, MO, United States“The Feeling of Being Watched,” is a documentary by filmmaker Assia Boundaoui about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal." It was one of the largest counter terrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11 and its focus was an Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago, where Boundaoui grew up. The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and …