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May 21, 2012 at 04:40 PM

TRINITY UNITED CHURCH
2211 Prairie Ave (at Shaughnessy)
ADMISSION BY DONATION

June 8, 7 pm

  • Film "Enemy Aliens" - a film about a stateless Palestinian, swept up with hundreds of other Muslims in the US, all victims of post-9/11 Islamaphobia. The films maker notes the parallels with the injustice inflicted upon the Japanese during World War 11.

June 9

  • 10 a.m. Film "Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague" - when the next pandemic takes place, are we prepared to defeat it, or would we repeat the same mistakes of the past? 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. - A TED Production: "Learning from a Barefoot Movement" A film about empowering people in rural India.

Lunch available at $6.00

  • 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (two venues)- Film "The End of Poverty" The problem exists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies. Asks why 20% of the world's population uses 80% of its resources. Narrated by Martin Sheen Film "Eco Pirate" - the story of the controversial founder of Greenpeace--a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans.
  • 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Two venues)- Film "A Step Into Darkness" - an award-winning film about an Iraqi girl, who is the survivor of a mistaken Allied military raid, only to be captured by Islamic militants. Film "The Last Continent" - a look at the environmental impact of modern life on the continent of Antarctica and the importance of that continent in the survival of our species.
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In the enlightened world it's called robbery

Benny Ziffer, Ha'aretz
May 11, 2007

The discovery of Herod's tomb, or to be more precise a few fragments of dressed stone that one archaeology professor has concluded are the remains of Herod's sarcophagus, have preoccupied television news and magazine programs since Tuesday. Amid the general zeal of the Londons and the Kirschenbaums and their talking-heads colleagues for demonstrating their mastery of the history of the Second Temple period, and to revive debates from their youth movement days over whether Herod was good or bad for the Jews, one important detail was forgotten, or almost forgotten: that the excavation of this tomb of Herod was carried out in occupied territory, where Israel has no moral right to dig and certainly not to remove archaeological artifacts. In the enlightened world, what Israel is doing is called robbery.

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