[tadamon-l] [Montreal] TUESDAY! Resistance & Hezbollah.

[Tadamon!]

Soha Bechara Returns to Lebanon:
Resistance & Hezbollah.

An evening of film, discussion & music ...

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TUESDAY, March 20th
Doors: 7pm
Suggested Donation: $7-10
Mile End Cultural Center
5390 St. Laurent
[corner St. Viateur]
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* Film Projection:
Soha Returns to the Country of Hezbollah [French]

* Middle Eastern Music: Hassan el-Hadi on Oud
DJ Leila P / DJ Kandis

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/550

This event will feature the first public screening in Canada of a recently 
released T.V. documentary on Soha Béchara's return to Lebanon after 
Israel's attack on the country this past summer.

Béchara herself is a symbol of the movement of national resistance against 
Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000. A former 
Lebanese political prisoner, she spent 10 years in the notorious 
Israeli-run Khiam prison in southern Lebanon. She was released in 1998 
after a major international campaign, and now lives in France.

The film documents Béchara's first visit to Lebanon following the 2006 
Israeli attack. This powerful documentary portrays Béchara's interactions 
and discussions in the wake of the summer war, providing insights into 
Hezbollah's role in southern Lebanon and in Lebanese national politics, 
while examining the overall political complexities of the country.

Tadamon! presents this film with a view to uncovering something of the 
underlying reality of resistance movements in Lebanon, a reality that is 
often obscured by Canadian mainstream media coverage and government 
discourse. In fact, Canada currently categorizes Hezbollah as a 
"terrorist" organization; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Mackay 
referred to the political movement as a "cancer" on Lebanese society, 
while Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day denounced it as "one of the 
most vicious Murderous groups in the world today." Such stances support 
Canadian policies towards the Middle East which undermine the political 
aspirations and autonomy of people throughout the entire region, from 
southern Lebanon, to occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The 
domestic face of such rhetoric and policies is the use of "anti-terror" 
legislation to criminalize communities in Canada that support popular 
movements against North American economic and political domination of the 
region as well as Israeli apartheid and occupation.

Join Tadamon! for a film screening aimed at creating a space for genuine 
political debate regarding Hezbollah and the role of different Lebanese 
resistance movements.

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Tadamon! Montreal
http://tadamon.resist.ca
tel. 514-664-1036
tadamon[at]resist.ca