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“Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North” Documentary Screening and Filmmaker Discussion

Event info: Sunday 8 March 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join us for a special screening of the acclaimed documentary “Traces of the Trade,” with filmmaker and JP-resident Katrina Browne. Featured on PBS and at the Sundance Film Festival, this film recounts Browne’s inquiry into the DeWolf family, her forefathers and the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. “Traces of the Trade” follows ten DeWolf [...]

Tagged as: Africa, local, reparations, slavery, wealth

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“The Dhamma Brothers” Film and Discussion

Event info: Thursday 11 December 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program. This film, with the power to dismantle stereotypes about men behind prison bars also gives you hope for the [...]

Tagged as: meditation, peace, prisons, race in America, reparations

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“New Year Baby” Documentary Screening and Discussion

Event info: Friday 30 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

  Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth and why her family’s history had been buried [...]

Tagged as: militarism, peace, reparations, social movements, South East Asia, war

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“A Dream in Doubt” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 18 April 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

It was the first hate-based murder in the wake of September 11, 2001–one of thousands of reported and unreported hate crimes in the years that followed. The victim: a turbaned Sikh man in Mesa, Arizona, where his family had sought religious freedom, searching for the American Dream. Meet a family still determined to believe in [...]

Tagged as: militarism, race in America, reparations

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“Banished” Documentary and Discussion

Event info: Friday 18 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. BANISHED tells the story of three [...]

Tagged as: community, race in America, reparations, social movements

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