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DESCRIPTION:Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)\nWritten and Presented by John 
 Pilger\n\nIn 1977, the award-winning journalist and film-maker, John 
 Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue (1977). In 
 this film Pilger tells how nearly a million Palestinians had been forced 
 off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. In this new in-depth 
 documentary, he has returned to the West Bank and to Israel, to ask why the 
 Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more 
 than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo -- refugees 
 in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation 
 of modern times. \n\n"The fate and struggle of the Palestinians," says 
 Pilger, "are not just critical to the overdue recognition of their basic 
 human rights, but are also central to whether the region, and the wider 
 world, are plunged into war. Israel is now one of the biggest military 
 powers in the world. While nothing changes, the dangers become greater. 
 This is a film about a nation of people, traumatized, humiliated and yet 
 resilient. In trying to liberate less than a quarter of historic Palestine, 
 they have had no army, no air force, and no powerful friends -- and have 
 fought back.” \n\nThis screening of Palestine is Still the Issue is to 
 benefit a delegation of Arab-American youth activists from the Bay Area who 
 plan to go to Palestine this coming summer. The delegation plans on working 
 to support grassroots Palestinian organizations and their programs, work 
 with youth, build international alliances, and upon return, report back to 
 the Bay Area activist communities on the most current situations effecting 
 Palestinian people and their youth. \n\nAlready widely viewed in Britain 
 and Australia, John Pilger's informative and chilling documentary could not 
 be more timely.  It is a film that deserves to be watched by everyone in 
 the US, who unknowingly perhaps, has been subsidising Israel's 37-year-old 
 military occupation, illegal under international law. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/14783.php
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Palestine is still the Issue
LOCATION:@ The Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley\n2451 Shattuck Ave (at Haste)\nSliding 
 Scale $10-25\nFor information call: 510-848-1143\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/14783.php
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