[van-announce] Films/ speakers discussion: Jan 25th

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

Films will be followed by Q and A with
* Sid Tan: Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians and Canadians for
Redress
* Reem Alnuweiri: Palestine Community Center


StopWar Film Nite
Pacific Cinematique 1131 Howe St.
admission $8/5 (no PCP membership required)

7:00 Lest We Forget  follows the events post-9/11-giving attention to the
roundups and racial attacks that followed and continue to occur. The film
contains stories told by individuals who have felt the severity of wartime
racism in North America. Through 1st person account, individuals whose
lives were/are thrown into suffering will verbally recreate a montage of
their similar experiences. Pulling from the past and looking to the
future, members of the Japanese internments of WWII will be paralleled to
what is going on today to Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities.

Director  Jason DaSilva, USA/Canada 2004, 57 mins.


8:30 In the Shadow of Gold Mountain takes us from Montreal to Vancouver to
uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and
Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in our history, from 1885 until 1947,
plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family
separation. Through a rich melding of history, poetry and raw emotion,
this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of
generations, with deeply moving testimonials, it reveals the profound ways
this history still casts its shadow on Canadian immigration policy even
today.

Director  Karen Cho, Canada 2004, 43 mins.



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