[Peace] FW: [Idf-l] Thursday: GHOSTS OF RWANDA!

[Jen Tayabji]

AWARE is a cosponsor of the IDF Human Rights Film Series.
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THURSDAY!

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"Ghosts of Rwanda"

Part of the IDF Human Rights Film Series
Fall 2006

Thursday, October 19
7-9pm
First Floor, IDF*

Free Admission and Snacks

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This week, the Human Rights Film Series continues with GHOSTS OF RWANDA.
The Human Rights Film Series is an opportunity for campus and community
members to come together to view and discuss films pertinent to those
issues that face us all. Following each film, there will be a discussion
facilitated by a local campus or community member who has expertise on the
topic of the documentary. The films will be shown using IDF’s newly
purchased projector and large screen. Light snacks and refreshments will
be available!

Rwanda was supposed to be easy. Ten years ago, when the United Nations
sent peacekeepers to this small, Central African nation -- with the full
support of the U.S. government -- most of the policy-makers involved
believed it would be a straightforward mission that would help restore the
U.N.'s battered reputation after failures in Bosnia and Somalia. Few could
imagine that, a decade later, Rwanda would be the crisis that still haunts
their souls. GHOSTS OF RWANDA, a special two-hour documentary to mark the
10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide -- a state-sponsored massacre in
which some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by
Hutu extremists as the U.S. and international community refused to
intervene -- examines the social, political, and diplomatic failures that
converged to enable the genocide to occur.

For more information: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

The IDF would like to thank this semester's cosponsors:  Action Darfur,
Activist Forum, Amnesty International #124, Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort
(AWARE), Coalition Against Coke Contracts, Community United Church of
Christ, Feminist Majority, Jewish Social Justice Network of Champaign
County, Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, UC Friends Meeting, UC
IMC Steering Group, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (CU Chapter).

The Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF) is a pioneering peace with justice
campus ministry and non-profit organization located on the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. For more information about the film
series or the IDF, please contact us at (217) 352-8721,
idf at prairienet.org, or visit our website at http://www.prairienet.org/idf.

*The IDF is located at the NW corner of Springfield and Wright streets in
Champaign. It is only 2 blocks from the U of I Quad and on several CU-MTD
bus routes. Limited free parking is available. The film series is
wheelchair accessible.

**UPCOMING EVENTS:

* The IDF Human Rights Film Series will conclude on Thursday, October 26th
with a showing of SIR! NO SIR! The film will begin at 7pm at the Illinois
Disciples Foundation.

* IDF Annual Fall Dinner: Saturday, November 4th.
http://www.prairienet.org/idf/falldinner06.html.

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Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
610 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL  61820
Office Hours: Mon - Fri from 12-5pm
(217) 352-8721 | idf at prairienet.org
www.prairienet.org/idf