<div dir="ltr">Dear Peace<br><br>Event: Film: "Whose Streets?" + Q&A<br><div class="gmail-_publicProdFeedInfo__timeRowTitle gmail-_5xhk"><span><span>Date: Tuesday, September 5</span></span>, 2017<br><span>Time: 7 PM</span> - <span>9:30 PM</span></div>Where: The Art Theater // 126 W Church St, Champaign, Illinois 61820<br><br><div class="gmail-_4-u3 gmail-_5dwa gmail-_5dwb gmail-_57_-"><span class="gmail-_38my gmail-_5803">Details and Description: Q&A is after the film.<br><br><span class="gmail-_c1c"></span></span></div><span class="gmail-_4n-j gmail-_3cht gmail-fsl"><div class="gmail-text_exposed_root gmail-text_exposed" id="gmail-id_59a4b143b1da52614028674">Post-show
Q&A w/ Sundiata Cha-Jua (UIUC History & The North End Breakfast
Club), Karen Olowu (Black Students for Revolution), & Gus Wood
(UIUC History & The North End Breakfast Club)<br> <br> “Whose
streets? Our streets!” became the iconic slogan of protesters reclaiming
public spaces to express their voices. Directed by artists and
activists Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, Whose Streets? is a compelling
film about police brutality in the U.S. nowadays. The narrative focuses
on the popular mobilization in Ferguson in 2014, where Michael Brown,
an 18-year-old black teenager, was shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old
white police officer. The documentary is a sprawling, powerful immersion
into the upheavals of the area, p<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show">resenting
the portraits of several suffering inhabitants and activists, why they
want to fight for justice, and allowing those affected to stand up and
give their perspective about race relations in modern America and their
vision for their community’s future. Highlighting a provocative topic,
the storytelling is captivating and sincere, thanks to incorporation of
original cell phone footages shot by the crowd of protesters and social
media quotes that had a tremendous impact on demonstrations. Politically
strong and knowledgeable, Whose Streets? pulls no punches, enabling the
viewer to feel and understand the perspective of people of color, and
link individual stories to the bigger historical picture of racism. For
this generation, the battle is not for civil rights, but for the right
to live. (2017, Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis, US, 100 min, NR)<br> <br> (Bonus show sans Q&A Weds @ 7)<br> <br>
“Folayan and Davis’s outstanding and incendiary documentary about
Ferguson does a tremendous end run around mainstream news outlets and
the agenda-driven narratives that emerge, particularly on television.”
-The Guardian</span></div></span><br></div>