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Tears of Gaza

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The film Tears of Gaza is a beautiful, true life film about one specific period, in 2008-9, in the never ending devastation of Gaza and Palestine. Through the use of multiple perspectives you are able to view the daily life and reality of the prisoners of the refugee camp known as Gaza. This film really helped me begin to understand the steadfastness that the people of Palestine feel against Israel. They are steadfast because they are subjected to daily, illogical, unprovoked, attacks and abuses. Children are arrested or shot in the head by Israeli soldiers for throwing rocks. Chemical weapons are used to debilitate entire houses full of people, not just for the day, but for their entire lives. This is done to them by a group of people who moved on to someone else’s land and are not attempting to find a middle ground. I know it was not only the Israeli’s who carried out the settlement, it was a great complicated web of decisions by larger powers, but the Israeli government is continuing its was crimes against Palestine even with those powers now encouraging them to stop. This film helps bring the reality that media and the cultural powers ignore.

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Invisible Children

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“INVISIBLE CHILDREN USES FILM, CREATIVITY AND SOCIAL ACTION TO END THE USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS IN JOSEPH KONY’S REBEL WAR AND RESTORE LRA-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY.”

Invisible Children, Film & Political Movement

This film is an attempt to bring attention and action against Joseph Kony and his Lords Resistance Army committing horrendous human rights violations in the countries of Uganda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The LRA is in the practice of recruiting children to be child soldiers, believed to be between 60,000-100,000 recruited. The armed conflict has been occurring for twenty years. There is a history of the conflict on the website explaining how a group of rebels standing up for their own became the oppressors. The history of the conflict

Thanks to this movie, international efforts have been made to raise money and awareness and call upon the United Nations to take action. Technology and people have been banded together to create a system of tracking the movement of the Lords Resistance Army that is broadcast over radio to local towns in central Africa. This is meant to help inform the residents as soon as possible of the movements of the LRA to attempt to dimish the damage they cause, possibly giving people time to prepare and hide. LRA Tracker