[opirgyork] Rebels With A Cause Film Festival Continues TODAY!

[Aruna]

Hey everyone!

If you haven't yet - check out some of the amazing events we have going 
on this week for the Rebels With A Cause Film festival!
Full details at www.opirgyork.ca

See you there!

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***Thursday October 27th 2011***
2:30PM – 4:30PM
Queer & Trans Activism
Vari Hall 3005
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250136485037721 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250136485037721>

This programme examines themes which confront racism within the queer 
community, the silence surrounding trans identity, rigid gender norms, 
and the criminalization of racialized and trans identities. Other shorts 
include an epic queer retelling of Jewish history which transgresses 
boundaries and a testimony on migrating through territories whilst 
fighting discrimination.

Invisible - Xavier Hogue
Seeking Single White Male - Vivek Shraya
Ache in My Name - Vivek Shraya
The Decadence of Your Starvation - Julia Rivera
Red Lips [Cages for Black Girls] – Kyisha Williams
CAMP – Alexis Mitchell
Land(E)scaping – Jorge Lozano

Queer & Trans Activism Panel
Panelists: Alexis Mitchell, Julia Rivera, Vivek Shraya, Kyisha Williams

6:00PM – 8:00PM
Indigenous Struggles
Vari Hall 3003
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261827130518978 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261827130518978>

 From Nomad to Nobody – Michael Buckley
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside 
– Alejandro Zuluaga & Harsha Walia
As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Story of the Grassy Narrows – Dave Clement

Indigenous Struggles Panel
Panelists: Rinchen Dolma, Monique Woolnough

***Friday October 28th 2011***
6:00PM – 7:00PM: Closing Event

7:00PM – 10:00PM
The Personal & the Political Story of Activism
Nat Taylor Cinema - 102 Ross
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154581571303806 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154581571303806>

This program opens with a short which focuses on black women and 
examines the issues of race, representation and the role of the spoken 
word in strengthening communities. This will be followed by the 
documentary "Mountains That Take Wing" which features conversations 
between activists Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama. The film explores the 
suppression of Women within the civil rights movement and activism, and 
deconstructs the prison industrial complex and the role of education in 
the struggle for social liberation.

Black Womyn Griots: D’bi Young & Helen Yohannes Speak – Helen Yohannes
Mountains That Take Wings – C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan

Personal & Political Story of Activism Panel
Panelists: to be confirmed