This film documents a trip to the West Bank in 2022, when Dr. Gabor Mate did trauma-healing work with a group of women who were tortured in Israeli prisons.
Directed and produced by Zaya and Mauricio Benazzo, the film features Palestinian journalist and therapist Asira Darwish, Palestinian grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. There will be a Q&A with Zaya Benazzo and Ashira Darwish. click here for tickets. No one turned away. click here for the full event flyer. Donations to Palestine Red Crescent Society, Middle East Children Alliance, Catharsis Holistic Healing, and Treedom for Palestine. Sponsored by the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County. |
Since its independence from joint Egyptian-British rule (1899-1956) on Jan. 1, 1956, Sudan has had three civil wars: 1955-72; 1983-2005; and the current one that began on April 15, 2023. The War in Sudan pits the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of the government, under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, AKA Hemedti (“little Mohamed”) from Darfur (“Home of the Fur,” a local tribe).
The SAF and RSF are engaged in a longstanding struggle for political power. In April 2019, al-Burhan and Hemedti joined forces and staged a coup. The two initially shared power. However, when an internationally backed Framework Agreement in Dec. 2022, tried to integrate the RSF into the SAF, as a security reform and toward a transition to democracy, the two leaders faced off in tank battles in the streets of Khartoum, each fearing that the other would take over the government. Currently, the majority of Sudanese consider neither group capable of governing, and many are frustrated with the lack of reporting of their desperate plight in the mass (corporate) media... read the full article |
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