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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><tt><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>(sorry for short notice)</strong></span></tt></p>
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<tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong></strong></span></tt></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Several films this
week, 6:30PM every day through Thursday in GSLIS, as part of an<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> International
Summer Institute on Global Protest Movements<br>
<tt><a
href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2594?eventId=15942498">http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2594?eventId=15942498</a></tt><br>
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For *tonight*'s film, "Egypt: The Story behind the Revolution,"<br>
we'll get to hear (via skype) from the filmmaker himself.<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br>
GSLIS (Grad. School of Library & Information Sciences) is near
5th and Daniel.<br>
Enter by the <b>east-side door</b>, a few steps up from the
parking lot on that side,<br>
along Daniel between 5th and 6th St. The auditorium, room 126, is
just inside the door.<br>
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<tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong></strong></span></tt><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong></strong></span></p>
<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>June 19, 2012</strong></span>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color:
#000000;"><strong>Egypt: The Story behind the Revolution</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">6:30 pm </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Room 126, Graduate School of Library
and Information Sciences</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">501 E. Daniel St, Champaign</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">The feature length documentary "Egypt
the Story Behind the Revolution," directed by Khaled Sayed and
produced by M. David Green, introduces Egyptian activists to the
American audience, and gives them a voice. Hear them tell the
story of their struggle during the 18 days standoff with the
Egyptian state police, and how they finally succeed to remove
Mubarak after 30 years as a sitting president.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">The film won the Visionary Award at the
Awareness Film Festival in West Hollywood. <a style="color:
blue; text-decoration: underline; " track="on" shape="rect"
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001_wnsxaBy2hDKxornmOcV_C5OP6cTDuVR2fbOv0xsLwvvNIgN-RJonmrwXyzG1G72BQvb1XjSUMcM3rptdLzUfe7sKUm7OJcs9BxkxTgijw-mptmLx1M2j57VDK83-LgTaB3VPctYbpw9Py7zt7dgaBhkMtd4dcvYbACQY0HD6zBfpm9bJq9qJbpG2rEB_76t-xOnhW-PSwlMzy-gLvSwYw3aVwFqnv4j"
linktype="1" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Discussant</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">: Khaled Sayed, Film Director (via
Skype)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color:
#000000; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>June 20, 2012</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color:
#000000; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">6:30 pm </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Room 126, Graduate School of Library
and Information Sciences</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">501 E. Daniel St, Champaign</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Over sixty million Indians belong to
communities imprisoned by the British as "criminals by birth."
The Chhara of Ahmedabad, in Western India, are one of 198 such
"Criminal Tribes." Declaring that they are "born actors," not
"born criminals," a group of Chhara youth have turned to street
theater in their fight against police brutality, corruption, and
the stigma of criminality ' a stigma internalized by their own
grandparents. Please Don't Beat Me, Sir! follows the lives of
these young actors and their families as they take their
struggle to the streets, hoping their plays will spark a
revolution. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Not only does the film show the power
of art as a tool for resistance and social change, it also takes
us inside Chhara society to reveal a community in transition.
Made over a five year period, during which the filmmakers worked
in close collaboration with their subjects, Please Don't Beat
Me, Sir! exposes the tensions that exist between an older
generation who did whatever it took to make ends meet and young
people for whom theater offers a new world of opportunity. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Discussant</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">: Mara Thacker, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Library Administration</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color:
#000000;"><strong>June 21, 2012</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color:
#000000;"><strong>Putin's Kiss</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">6:30 pm </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Room 126, Graduate School of Library
and Information Sciences</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">501 E. Daniel St, Champaign</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Nashi is an increasingly popular
political youth organization in Russia with direct ties to the
Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the current
political system by creating a future elite among the brightest
and most loyal Russian teenagers. But the organization also
works to prevent the political opposition from spreading their
views among young people. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Masha Drokova, a 16-year-old Nashi
commissar and spokesperson, is an ambitious middle-class student
from the outskirts of Moscow. After joining Nashi at the age of
15, she moves to the very top of the organization, and is
rewarded for her dedication with a university scholarship, an
apartment, and even a pro-Putin talk show. Everything changes
when Drokova becomes acquainted with a group of liberal
journalists, including popular anti-Putin reporter Oleg Kashin.
At first, she remains devoted to Nashi while pursuing tentative
friendships with its left-wing critics ' but when Kashin is
brutally beaten by "unknown perpetrators," she has a genuine
change of heart and decides to take a stand.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Discussant</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">: Alisha Kirchoff, Associate Director,
Russian, East European and Eurasian Center</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>_______</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><em><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">For more information about the film
screenings:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><em>Angela Williams (<a shape="rect">aswillms@illinois.edu</a>)
</em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Co-sponsors</strong></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>:</strong> Center for African
Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; European
Union Center; Center for Global Studies; Center for
International Business and Education Research; Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies; Russian, East European and
Eurasian Center; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies; and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education
Title VI Program.</span></p>
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