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SDS Weekly Meetings | Fall Semester 2016 Blegen 135 Tuesdays @ 5:30 PM
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Movie Showing: 5 Broken Cameras
Thursday, October 27th @ 7pm @ U of MN, Hanson Hall Room 1-106 on the West Bank, 1925 4th Street S., Minneapolis
Academy Award nominated film 5 Broken Cameras is a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his community's nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army. When film director, Emad Burnat, flew into LA for the Academy Awards he was detained and harassed by US immigration officials. He said, "All the Palestinians get the same treatment in our country, in our home and in different countries. So it's not normal for a human to be treated like this for all our lives, or for our kids. So I am seeking for peace and for freedom for my kids. And I want them to be treated like humans, not because we are Palestinians that we should get bad treatment or different treatment."
Mark your calendar: The director's brother, Iyad Burnat, who appears in the film, will speak in the Twin Cities on November 19th.
Hosted by the Anti-War Committee with Students for a Democratic Society and Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Revolution in the Philippines: Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
A presentation by Joe Iosbaker
Saturday, October 29th @ 1 pm @ Mayday Books, 301 Cedar Ave S., Minneapolis
Snacks will be servedIn the context of the U.S.’s “Pivot to Asia,” a delegation of activists from 25 countries traveled to the Philippines this summer for an International Solidarity Mission. Joe Iosbaker, a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and anti-war activist from Chicago, was one of 100 who came from the U.S.The movement in the Philippines is making steady advances, guided by the Communist Party of the Philippines and the revolutionary National Democratic Front, which includes the New People’s Army (NPA). A U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign has cost the lives of over 40,000 people in the past 47 years. But the revolutionary movement is making gains. The revolutionaries enjoy the support of millions in their base areas. They can move freely in 80 percent of Philippine territory while the enemy armed forces can occupy or control only ten percent at any given time. Iosbaker visited the region known as Western Mindanao, the base of the U.S. troops in their counter insurgency war against the NPA. He’ll talk about the mass movement, the revolutionary movement, the Communist Party, and their strategy for victory.Sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization FFI: frso.org
RSVP & Share on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1204444039621046/
SAVE THE DATE! SDS & Progressive Students TEACH IN on the state of the University according to US.
Wednesday, November 9th @ 12 pm @ Coffman Memorial Union
**MORE INFO TO BE ANNOUNCED CLOSER TO DATE**
Week of Actions: JusticeThruJamar
Sunday, November 13th - Saturday, November 19th
On November 15th, 2015, 24-year old Jamar Clark was shot in the head within 61 seconds during an encounter with two Minneapolis police officers Schwarze and Ringgenberg. In the 18 days that followed, community members occupied the Fourth Precinct police station in North Minneapolis, demanding justice and calling for the prosecution of the two officers that killed Jamar Clark. One year later, we are still calling for justice.
Hennepin County Prosecutor Mike Freeman failed to charge the killer cops. He justified his decision with a series of lies. He told the public that Jamar had been involved in a domestic violence matter the police were responding to. This is a PROVEN LIE. He claimed that Jamar was acting aggressively, resisting arrest and trying to take an officer’s gun. But these LIES weren’t backed up by his video “evidence,” or the accounts of two dozen Black eyewitnesses.
Everything about this system tries to take justice out of our hands; everything about our movement aims to win back that power, and see justice. James Clark said of his son, “There can never be justice for Jamar, but maybe we can win justice through Jamar.” Our hearts go out to both sides of Jamar’s family, and all those who loved him. Thousands of people in Minneapolis and beyond have been forever changed. One year later, join us for a week of actions, as we still fight for Jamar Clark, alongside all those lives stolen by police crimes against our communities.
<More details coming soon!>
Organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar and endorsed by Students for a Democratic Society
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Justice4Philando: Emergency Response Action
6pm – in the event that Ramsey County Attorney John Choi undercharges or fails to charge Philando’s murderer @ JJHill Elementary School, 998 Selby Ave. St. Paul, MN
There will be a rally at the school followed by a march.Organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar and endorsed by the Anti-War Committee.
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