ITVS Community Cinema Presents: KNOCKING

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Date:

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Time:

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Type:

Screening

Organizer/Author:

Mo Kinberg

Location Details:

Oakland Museum of California
10th and Oak Streets / One block from Lake Merritt Bart
Oakland, California 94607
Free parking in museum garage -enter on Oak Street at 11th Street

They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, but they embrace the science behind bloodless surgery. In Nazi Germany, they could fight for Hitler or go to the concentration camps. They chose the camps. Following two families who stand firm for their controversial and misunderstood Christian faith, KNOCKING reveals how Jehovah's Witnesses have helped shape history beyond the doorstep.

Panel discussion featuring:
Stan Yogi, Co-Author, Vying for History: How Strikers, Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Miners, Immigrants and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California (1850-2001).
To be published by Heyday Books
Andy Mendell, Jehovah’s Witness
Admission is free, reservations required
RSVP via email before Monday, May 7th at 5:00 p.m. to moriah_kinberg [at] itvs.org

Partner Organizations: The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and BAVC

For more information: http://itvs.org/outreach/knocking/

Added to the calendar on Wed, Apr 25, 2007 12:18PM

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