Posts Tagged ‘ human rights watch ’

What Happens When Young People Call “Action”

April 16, 2009
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What Happens When Young People Call “Action”

Sofia Snow grabbed the mic, paused, looked out into the audience, took a deep breath and began. In her own unique rhyme and metre she delivered a poem, like a long, lyrical and very personal sentence, about speaking “broken” English. It made for a fitting finish to a screening of “Youth Producing Change”, a...

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Film Review: Eden is West

March 24, 2009
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Film Review: Eden is West

Costa-Gavras, in his latest film, has distilled such messy subjects as race, class and immigration into something tender and simple, even sexy. When audience members, after a recent London screening, asked about his motivations for the film, Costa-Gavras, who is known for injecting politics into his work, was hardly provocative. He explained that “Eden...

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