Tuesday March 11 at 6:30 pm
Asian American Writers Workshop, 112 West 27th Street, 6th floor
World Can’t Wait invites you to see WE ARE UNARMED
WE ARE UNARMED bears witness to the historic, peaceful resistance at Standing Rock in North Dakota, when the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) encroached on treaty land in 2016. In this beautiful, heart-wrenching documentary, award-winning filmmaker Gwendolen Cates goes behind the scenes with three Indigenous women who play central roles. At a critical moment in American history, the film encourages us to study the past in order to understand the present.
Standing Rock becomes both a warning and an inspiration as this country moves into uncharted territory. The parallels with Palestine are stark – a brutal, militarized response to the Indigenous struggle for justice, colonial environmental and cultural desecration, and the courage of Indigenous people in their determination to remain on their ancestral land.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Gwendolen Cates and Hadeel Assali and will end with a poetry reading by Palestinian poet/artist/performer Farid Bitar.
Watch the trailer. Initiated by World Can’t Wait and co-sponsored by NYC Jewish Voice for Peace, NYC War Resisters League and Brooklyn For Peace.
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