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DESCRIPTION:The following 4 films deserve a full house as both the issues of civil 
 rights and the support of the Palestinian liberation struggle must be part 
 of any serious labor movement.\n\n"USA v. Al-Arian" is a film that tells 
 the story of the targeting by the US government of Palestinian American 
 professor Dr. Sami Al-Arian at the University of South Florida in Tampa. 
 Sami who was also a member of the NEA United Professors of Florida received 
 their support against the pressure to fire him after he appeared on Fox¹s 
 Bill O¹Reilly show. The film shows a personal story of a family living in 
 a society where scapegoating of Muslims for the 9/11 Inside Job has caused 
 torture, false imprisonment, frame-ups, deportations and death of innocent 
 human beings.  For years, Nahla Al-Arian and her children have been 
 fighting to prove the innocence of husband and father Sami, a Palestinian 
 refugee, and civil rights activist, who has lived in the USA for more than 
 thirty years. In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was accused of giving material support 
 to a terrorist organization and held in solitary confinement for over three 
 years. His six-month trial ended without a single guilty verdict. The 
 failure to convict Dr. Al-Arian was seen as a stinging rebuke for the 
 federal government. While the Bush administration considered this a 
 landmark case in its campaign against international terrorism, Professor 
 Sami Al-Arian claims he has been targeted in an attempt to silence his 
 political views. Because the jury hung on some of the counts, however, Dr. 
 Al-Arian remained in jail as the prosecution threatened to retry him.  
 Laila Al-Arian, daughter of Sami Al-Arian will be attending.\n\n"The 
 Alley," a film From Occupied Palestine, explores aspects of the current 
 political economy of Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus. Perspectives from this 
 hard-hit community include the insights and voices of vegetable sellers and 
 other residents of Balata, such as those forced by the harsh conditions of 
 Israeli occupation to seek work in a sweatshop at the edge of the 
 camp.\n\n"The Suicide Jumpers" This work focuses on the Filipina house 
 domestics who were seeking to leave Lebanon during the Israeli attack 
 during 2006. Around 30,000 to 50,000 Filipino migrant workers ­ most of 
 them female domestic helpers ­ were subjected to collective punishment in 
 August 2006 in Israel because of the Lebanon bombing. Many of them were 
 locked in their homes and had to jump out of their employers' homes to 
 escape  to the Philippines. It looks at the exploitation of these women and 
 the hidden cost of the war against Lebanon paid for with US tax dollars.\n 
 \n"The Wisconsin Plan, From Welfare to Work" Israel’s welfare-work 
 experiment “Wisconsin Plan” has entered its decisive phase, as the 
 two-year pilot period is about to end in June 2007. This film shows how 
 this plan is causing the social and economic problems on Palestinian people 
 in Israel.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/30/18431941.php
SUMMARY:LaborFest: 4 Films on Civil Rights and the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St, near 24th St, San Francisco (24th 
 St BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/30/18431941.php
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