[antiwar-van] Fw: Award Winning Documentaries by John Pilger - Tuesday July 6

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: Award Winning Documentaries by John Pilger - Tuesday July 6


StopWar.ca Presents: 
Tuesday, July 6 
7:30 pm 
Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street - 

Double Feature of John Pilger's Award Winning Documentaries 

Breaking the Silence:  Truth and Lies in the War on Terror 
& 
Palestine is Still the Issue 

Breaking the Silence: 
While President Bush refers to the US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq as two 'great victories', Pilger asks"Victories over whom, and for what purpose?"  Pilger describes Afghanistan as a country "more devastated than anything I have seen since Pol Pot's Cambodia".  He finds that Al-Qaida has not been defeated and that the Taliban is re-emerging.  And of the "victory" in Iraq he asks: "is this Bush's Vietnam?" 
"Astonishing... should be required viewing in every home, school and office"  The Guardian (UK). 

Palestine is Still the Issue: 
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine.  He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims.  He sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa's infamous pass laws.  He goes into the refugee camps and meets children who he says, "no longer dream like other children, or if they do, it is about death." 
Continually asking for the solution, John Pilger says that it is time to bring justice, as well as peace, to Palestine. 
  

$8 admission includes both films; (no PC membership required) 
Organized by StopWar.ca.  For more information email <contact at stopwar.ca> 
www.StopWar.ca 
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