The Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF) celebrates the invaluable contribution filmmakers offer to raising public awareness and understanding of often overlooked human rights issues. Since 1992, SHRFF has brought some of the world's most thought-provoking films to our community, covering critical issues that face us as global citizens. Through scenes of despair, death and destruction, themes of survival, compassion and hope emerge.
SHRFF films cover a wide range of important human rights topics from across the globe, each with their own unique, compelling stories to tell. Our film selection and festival goals remain consistent with Amnesty International's mission to "investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world.”
2009 promises to be our most successful year yet! Featuring a variety of special engagements at premiere Seattle venues, an exceptionally impressive selection of 16 cutting-edge documentaries, and a wealth of guest speakers that will include award-winning filmmakers, producers, activists and academics, SHRFF ‘09 is a human rights event not to be missed.
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Global Health Symposium
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Many thanks for the add. Hope you enjoy the music and message behind it. My mission in life is to fight Human Trafficking. understanding the individual pain of others is sometimes to painful for an other individual to touch and that is frightening ... what i mean is that someone whose life is not traumatized and brutalized as a regular sequence of every day events unconsciously seeks the camouflage and shelter of apathy and banality from the reality of such devastating anguish and terror ...
but the spirit of young people who are used as sex slaves in the systematized global industry of human trafficking is now reaching out to the human fellowship in hope and desperation and through technology ...
it is scary when humanity turns a blind eye to this horror ... its like ignoring genocide whilst it is happening ...
what i am asking is that if you hear the cry of these young people who are existing in an environment of torture and brutality each and every day that you then please do not turn away from them ...
please reach deeply into your heart and soul and please in 2009 join a movement or become a part of an event that challenges modern slavery in the 21st century ... colin
A certain Communist regime is preparing the Olympic Games . . . .
While Falun Gong is practiced openl y in 80 countries, today in its homeland of China it is subject to severe human rights violations . The scale and scope of abuse s taking place make it possibly the largest religious persecution in the world today .
Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that is Buddhist in nature. It consists of moral teachings for daily life, a meditation, and four gentle exercises. Falun Gong is always taught free of charge and is practiced in over 80 countries.
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In case you missed NEW YEAR BABY at this year's fantastic Seattle Human Rights Film Festival, ITVS Community Cinema Seattle is presenting a free screening of the film THIS Saturday at 4pm at the NW Film Forum. Here are the details:
NEW YEAR BABY is the first documentary directed by a Cambodian-American woman about her family's survival. The film is a personal documentary - a search for the truth about how Socheata Poeuv's family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide and why they buried the truth for so long. NEW YEAR BABY will play Saturday, May 10 at 4:00 PM at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington. Doors open at 3:30 PM. There is no charge to attend this event. More info at communitycinema.org
Director Socheata Poeuv explains, "My father pruned our trees in a sarong with a kitchen cleaver. My mother stored stinky fermented fish under the sink. My parents made us go to Buddhist temple on Saturdays and Bible study on Sundays. In some ways, they never left Cambodia though we lived in Dallas, Texas. While I thought everything about my parents was 'old country,' they were desperately trying to forget their past. They are survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide. In fact my whole family is, and it’s something they almost never talk about."
This event is co-sponsored by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), KCTS Television Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM, Colors NW Magazine, The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Amnesty International of Washington, and the Northwest Film Forum. Free to all.
WHAT: Special community screening of NEW YEAR BABY and discussion with local families WHEN: Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (doors at 3:30 PM) WHERE: Northwest Film Form - 1515 12th Ave at Pike
Thanks for adding me. ¶ Love, but not blindly -- don't confuse it with sleep. Love all people, but not all ideas; think to distinguish helpful ideas from hurtful ones. We are immersed in a culture of destructiveness, and we must end it before it ends us. Our many problems have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, and murderers — particularly those in public office — believe people are motivated only by greed and fear. They want us to share that belief, because they use it to justify themselves and to manipulate us. That belief shapes the economic and political systems of the world. But you and I have found something better inside ourselves and our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them — we're all one flesh and blood. Spread the word; until we do our advances will be minor and temporary. The outcome to the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be a spectator. Join the conversation. ¶ The Iraq war, like most wars, was based on lies. And now the occupation is making new enemies faster than it can kill them; that's helpful only to arms dealers. The economy is all wrong too: the rich get richer and fewer, everyone else gets screwed, and the ecosystem gets trashed. These problems are not new, but lately they've become so blatant that we've begun to understand them. It's time to end the military-industrial complex and the corporatocracy. We the people must control government, and government must control business, not the other way around. A good start would be transparency in government, public financing of election campaigns, trustbusting the media, and ending corporate personhood. ¶ Question authority. Keep on fighting, loving, hoping, and singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal the world. — Love, Eric
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