406 Calle La Calzada, 3.25 blocks towards Lake Nicaragua
Granada, Nicaragua
A
woman's life spins out of control when she promises her son that she'll
get an evil cop fired who pepper-sprayed a baby squirrel. A dark comedy
about living with male violence. Features Granada's own Dreamlander,
Mary Vivian Pearce as the sleazy school principal. View the trailer
here: https://vimeo.com/164283185
In English with Spanish subtitles.
Come eat, drink and watch independent film with us!
La vida de una mujer gira fuera de control cuando ella promete a su
hijo que ella obtendrá la despedida a un policía malvado quien rocía una
ardilla bebé con gas pimienta. Una comedia oscura sobre la vida con
violencia masculina. Cuenta con la propia “Dreamlander” de Granada, Mary
Vivian Pearce como la directora escolar sórdida. En Ingles, con subtitulos en español. Ver el tráiler aquí: https://vimeo.com/164283185
¡Ven a comer, beber y ver la película independiente con nosotros!
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Interfaith Peace-Builders May 2017 delegation to
Palestine/Israel. Trip co-sponsored by Defense for Children
International – Palestine and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Delegation
theme: "Incarceration, Detention, and Political Prisoners." #ifpb61
Interactions and Materials Affecting Environment | Emma Johnson - Midland, Michigan
Military presence and eclectic reading. In
Palestine/Israel, myriad soldiers with machine guns inhabit the public
spaces. I wasn't used to the military in the forefront of my
environment. With only 1 percent of the U.S. population serving in the
military, national service seems abstract, out of sight and out of mind.
But in Israel, everyone is required to serve for three years.
Young men and women, who oftentimes stand casually and look bored and
ready to be off their shifts, become part of the background. Yet, you
always know the military is there. The Israeli government projects a
presence, a constant surveillance where you know they're looking and
they know you know they're watching.
I saw a variety of magazines at a small shop at the airport in Tel
Aviv: Fashion, home decorating, celebrity gossip ... and military
equipment as just another magazine among them. Who is this customer? Of
course, I want to read about the latest lipstick and then find out about
the innovations for the next models of machine guns!
Concrete doesn’t equal permanence. Another visual in
the environment is the apartheid wall. The concrete divides Israel from
Palestine for miles, and more is planned.
The material of concrete suggests permanence.
At Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank, the Palestinians carry the
mentality, and pass this mentality down to their children, that despite
their concrete housing, the situation isn’t permanent. (In fact, they
lived in tents and held off on living in buildings made of concrete.) In
spite of its material, this is temporary housing and they will return
home since international law recognizes the Right of Return. An enduring
material doesn’t mean the situation will also last forever.
Driving, sometimes the road becomes monotonous. In Palestine/Israel,
the tall concrete slabs that comprise the apartheid wall are the same
rectangular shape repeated over and over. The wall is an ugly concept,
but by repetition I get used to it.
It is serene watching the steady flow of cars,
blurry blue and white squares moving slowly from a distance.
But the by-pass road means the people inside are probably Israeli settlers.
Reading, intellectually I understood this.
Seeing it in real life,
I wonder about the people inside the cars.
Who are they?
Do they think occupation is wrong but inure themselves to the Palestinians' pain?
Or, are they clueless, just going about their day?
Do they tell themselves they just have to do what they can to survive, lines blurred?
I wonder about the people inside the cars.
I wonder what kind of people they are and what their lives are like.
