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Film Screening: The Voice of Hind Rajab

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The Voice of Hind Rajab
March 24 | 6-8:45 PM | Lang Hall (HN 424)
Hunter Community: no need to RSVP
Open to the Public: MUST RSVP (Entrance at 69th St., between Lexington & Park Ave.)

Film screening followed by discussion. Prof. Kelly Anderson (Chair of Film & Media) will co-facilitate the post-screening dialogue. 

About the film:
Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, is trapped in a car under heavy Israeli military fire in Gaza, the sole survivor of their brutal assault. Her emergency calls reach the volunteers of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, who desperately attempt to calm and rescue her. But their rescue attempts are repeatedly obstructed by Israeli military gunfire, checkpoints, and delays. 

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Screening of A Home Worth Fighting For

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Screening of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR
March 12 | 6-7:30 PM
TV Studio (HN 436)
RSVP (open to Hunter Community & Public)

Come to Hunter’s Screening and Panel Discussion of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING
FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea

Public Housing Tenants Organize Against Demolition in the Heart of Manhattan

As the city’s affordable housing crisis remains center stage, New York
City’s vast public housing stock is relatively overlooked and unprotected.
Nowhere is this more pressing than in Chelsea, where a proposal to demolish
public housing in the neighborhood has spurred tenant organizing determined
to defend their community from privatization, gentrification, and
displacement.

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