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Naila and the Uprising screening

2018-Oct-21 @ 14:00 - 15:22

The Little will screen Naila and the Uprising (Julia Bacha, U.S. / Palestine 2017, 77 min.) followed by a videoconference discussion with Daniel Nerenberg as part of the 2018 Witness Palestine series. The film will be preceded by I Was Living Here (U.S. 2018, 5 min.)

The film revolves around the tragic and remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, an active student organizer in Gaza in the 1980s. When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Naila must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women at the frontlines, whose stories weave through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history — the First Intifada in the late 1980s. While the First Intifada provides the backdrop for Naila and the Uprising, its lessons transcend that particular time and place. Through the experience of countless women engaged at all levels of society, we learn what is possible when women take the lead in struggles for rights and justice — from a movement's inception to peace talks — and what we lose when they are stripped of their roles. In Naila and the Uprising we see how women-led civil resistance can stir the masses, put pressure on power-holders, and affect real structural change.

[source: Little Theatre calendar, 2018-Oct-15]

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Date:
2018-Oct-21
Time:
14:00 - 15:22
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Venue

Little Theatre
240 East Ave. #100
Rochester, New York 14604 United States
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