Hey all,

First: is anyone in contact with folks at The New Parkway Theater?

This group, Existence is Resistance, is trying to put on a screening of a documentary in Oakland about hip-hop artists who travel to Palestine to teach and learn. They're reaching out to The New Parkway, but as a fallback, I've offered the common space at 2141.

I checked the public school and sudo calendars, I did not see any reservations for 7pm-10pm Saturday night, please correct me otherwise.

https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/tentative-hip-hop-is-bigger-than-the-occupation-documentary-artists-in-palestine/

I assume The Public School will want to support this as well.

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View Trailer: http://youtu.be/PGvP0OREI2E

Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation is a documentary about a ten day journey of artists traveling through Palestine, teaching and performing nonviolent resistance through the arts. The tour included M1 of Dead Prez, Shadia Mansour, Marcel Cartier, Mazzi of Soul Purpose, DJ Vega Benetton, Lowkey, Jody McIntyre and Trinidad, Brandon and Lavie from the South West Youth Collaborative/University of Hip Hop Chicago.

Staying in the heart of Balata Refugee Camp at the Yafa Cultural Center in Nablus the group witnesses night raids, toured places like Hebron where there are roads for the Arabs and roads for the Jews, they meet families of shaheeds as well as young Palestinians who have been jailed, shot and humiliated. The group visits Bi’lin where they get shot at and tear gassed and experience first hand what it felt like living under occupation.

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// Matt