10/20 - Palestinian Child Prisoners and Resisting Israeli Apartheid

Join award-winning journalist Adam Hanieh
for a screening of the documentary Stolen Youth
and a discussion on Palestinian prisoners
and the North American Palestine solidarity movement.

Thursday, October 20
7:00pm
The Women’s Building
3543 18th St., San Francisco
$5-15, no one turned away for lack of funds

Adam Hanieh is co-author of Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children and will be in the Bay Area to receive a Project Censored award ( http://www.projectcensored.org) for his Left Turn article, “Control & Resistance: Palestinian Child Prisoners.” He is active with Al Awda (Toronto) (http://www.al-awda.ca) and Sumoud Political Prisoner Solidarity Group in Toronto ( http://sumoud.tao.ca/) and recently returned from working in Palestine.

The short documentary Stolen Youth sheds further light on the experiences of Palestinian child prisoners. It includes interviews with ex-child detainees, their families and their lawyer as well as exclusive footage from the inside an Israeli military court.

Discussion about strategies for strengthening the North American Palestine solidarity movement will follow the presentation and film screening

Co-sponsored by Left Turn Magazine ( http://www.leftturn.org ), SUSTAIN ( http://www.sustaincampaign.org ) and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee – San Francisco ( http://www.adcsf.org )