[Peace] FW: TONIGHT! Human Rights Film Series: "The Men in the Tree"

[Meridith Kruse]

TONIGHT! TONIGHT!

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IDF Human Rights Film Series:
"The Men in the Tree"
Thursday April 3rd 7pm
Illinois Disciples Foundation
(corner of Springfield and Wright)
Free refreshments
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In early 1993, Lalit Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team completed a
documentary film, The Boy in the Branch, for Channel 4 Television, U.K.
Set at the headquarters of the RSS in Nagpur, the film was about the
indoctrination of young Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, the foremost
Hindu fundamentalist organization in India. Eight years later, Vachani
returned to Nagpur to meet the characters from his earlier film. This
resulted in The Men in the Tree, a political documentary on Hindu
fundamentalism, that focuses on the incorporation of young Hindu boys into
right-wing fundamentalism. The personal stories illustrate the process of
transforming the boys from innocent and playful to perpetrators of
genocide.

Srirupa Prasad, a Sociology PhD student will facilitate a discussion
after the movie.

For more information about the Illinois Disciples Foundation and the Human
Rights Film Series see our website at: www.prairienet.org/idf or call us at
352-8721.

The IDF Human Rights Film Series is cosponsored by: Activist Forum,
African American Cultural Program, Amnesty International (UIUC Chaper),
Anti-War Ant-Racism Effort, Channing-Murray Foundation, Common Ground Food
Cooperative, El Centro por los Trabajadores, Graduate Employees'
Organization, U-C Independent Media Center, La Casa Cultural Latina,
McKinley Foundation, Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, St. Jude
Catholic Worker House, South Asian Collective, University YMCA, Vietnam
Veterans Against the War (CU Chapter), and the Women's Direct Action
Collective.