[sudo-discuss] Tentative: Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation documentary screening Sat @ 7pm?

[Matthew Senate]

Hey all,

The event has been updated to CONFIRMED, we will be hosting this on
Saturday, I'll be around to help out. Anyone else available as a backup?

Please share and invite folks!

// Matt


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> First: is anyone in contact with folks at The New Parkway Theater?
>
> This group, Existence is Resistance, is trying to put on a screening of a
> documentary in Oakland about hip-hop artists who travel to Palestine to
> teach and learn. They're reaching out to The New Parkway, but as a
> fallback, I've offered the common space at 2141.
>
> I checked the public school and sudo calendars, I did not see any
> reservations for 7pm-10pm Saturday night, please correct me otherwise.
>
>
> https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/tentative-hip-hop-is-bigger-than-the-occupation-documentary-artists-in-palestine/
>
> I assume The Public School will want to support this as well.
>
> ++++
>
> View Trailer:  http://youtu.be/PGvP0OREI2E
>
> Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation is a documentary about a ten day
> journey of artists traveling through Palestine, teaching and performing
> nonviolent resistance through the arts. The tour included M1 of Dead Prez,
> Shadia Mansour, Marcel Cartier, Mazzi of Soul Purpose, DJ Vega Benetton,
> Lowkey, Jody McIntyre and Trinidad, Brandon and Lavie from the South West
> Youth Collaborative/University of Hip Hop Chicago.
>
> Staying in the heart of Balata Refugee Camp at the Yafa Cultural Center in
> Nablus the group witnesses night raids, toured places like Hebron where
> there are roads for the Arabs and roads for the Jews, they meet families of
> shaheeds as well as young Palestinians who have been jailed, shot and
> humiliated.  The group visits Bi’lin where they get shot at and tear gassed
> and experience first hand what it felt like living under occupation.
> ++++
>
> // Matt
>
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