[Mitai-announce] Come to the Genocide in Film Series! Starting TONIGHT

[Stephen Fried]

Hey everyone!

MIT-STAND (A Student anti-Genocide Coalition) and Amnesty International 
are sponsoring a film series focusing on awareness of genocide during 
IAP. The movies that we have selected highlight lesser-known episodes 
and aspects of genocide in modern history to illustrate that the 
phenomenon is not insulated or exclusive to a single group but a 
recurrent theme of our times that must be addressed in its various 
contexts.  We will have dinner and a movie in 6-120 at 6:00PM during the 
Wednesdays of IAP, starting tonight!  Extra details about the individual 
films can be found below.
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Wed Jan 14, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"Amen." (2002)
"Amen." (2002) examines the complex nature of Jews in Christian 
narratives, and what effect this had on the deteriorating position of 
European Jews in the 1940s. This film raises the question of complicity 
of the Catholic Church with the Holocaust.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280653/


Wed Jan 21, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"The Great Silence" (2007)
Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in 
any conflict since World War II. "The Great Silence: Rape in the Congo" 
(2007) exposes the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in this 
perennially war-torn region.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157650/


Wed Jan 28, 06-08:00pm, 6-120
"Las Madres de la Plaza" (1985)
"Las Madres de la Plaza" (1985) discusses the massive disappearances and 
kidnappings that occurred from 1976-1983 in Argentina during the 
tumultuous rise of a military dictatorship.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089460/

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| Stephen D. Fried
| sdfried at mit.edu
| Class of 2009
| Dept. of Chemistry | Dept. of Physics


-- 
 _______________________________
| Stephen D. Fried
| sdfried at mit.edu
| Class of 2009
| Dept. of Chemistry | Dept. of Physics