[tadamon-l] Montreal: Anti-colonial films under the stars! II: Thursday September 18th

[Tadamon!]

Barriere Lake Solidarity and Tadamon! Montreal present.
Anti-colonial films - under the stars! II

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 7:30PM, 2008
(rain-date, same time Sunday)
in the lot beside l'Insoumise
2035 St-Laurent
(between Ontario and Sherbrooke)
metro St-Laurent
free, but a donation is encouraged
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/post/1681

Join us under the moon in downtown Montreal for a triple-bill of documentary 
films, depicting communities engaged in struggles against land theft and 
colonialism in Palestine and Canada.

bring your own: blankets, lawn-chairs, cushy seats...

---> featuring the screenings of:

* Blockade! Algonquins Defend the Forest (1990, 26mins)
Directed by Boyce Richardson

Blockade! follows the Barriere Lake Algonquins as they take on the government 
and the logging industry in a struggle to save their traditional hunting 
grounds and way of life. In September, 1989, this small indigenous community 
blockaded logging roads, calling for a moratorium on logging and insisting that 
the government recognize their rights to have a decisive say in the management 
of their traditional territories. Filmed on site during the blockades, Blockade 
offers a portrait of Barriere Lake just before they succeeded in forcing Canada 
and Quebec to sign the groundbreaking Trilateral agreement in 1991.

---> for more info:
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=18423

* Against All Odds: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake (2008, 40min)
Directed by Peter Vicaire & others

This documentary runs the Algonquin's story through till 2007. Since 1991, 
Barriere Lake has had to contend with government attempts to break their 
resistance and push their agreement aside. Canada and Qu ebec have stalled, 
quibbled over legalities, cut funding, and tried to undermine Barriere Lake's 
customary Chief and Council by recognizing and propping up a minority ready to 
compromise the Algonquin's rights.

  * Palestine Blues (2006, 72 min)
Directed by Nida Sinnokrot

Palestine Blues takes us on a journey into a vanishing landscape, exposing the 
motives behind Israel's Wall, and into the heart of Palestine's non-violent 
resistance movement. Focusing on the village of Jayyous in the West Bank and 
its campaign against the wall, the film documents the heroic victories and 
tragic defeats of this farming community's fight for survival. Filming at times 
with a hidden camera, Palestinian-American filmmaker Nida Sinnokrot gives us a 
lasting chronicle of a people and their ancient life-giving orchards, 
threatened by destruction. Palestine Blues is full unforgettable characters, 
heroism, desperation, poetry and song.

---> for more info:
www.palestineblues.com

* this event is a co-presentation with CKUT Radio.

for more information:

Barriere Lake Solidarity
514-398-7432
www.barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com
barrierelakesolidarity at gmail.com

Tadamon! Montreal
514 664 1036
http://tadamon.resist.ca
tadamon at resist.ca

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