Join us for a screening of There is a Field and a conversation about the intersection of Black and Palestinian rights.
Join the Museum of the Palestinian People and producer and director Jen Marlowe for a screening and discussion of her timely documentary There Is A Field. The film tells the story of Asel Asleh, an un-armed 17-year old killed by the police. Asel’s story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field is performed by Black Lives Matter activists in the U.S., and is intercut with the activists’ own realizations of the parallels they see between Asel’s story and the experiences of BIPOC communities in the US. Amidst the ongoing Black Lives Matter uprising that reignited this spring following the police murder of George Floyd, There Is A Field provides a unique and timely lens for discussing decolonization, Black liberation, Black-Palestinian solidarity, and cross-movement organizing, and for examining root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism.
The discussion will bring together activists from the film and the director to talk about the parallels between the Black Lives Matter movement and the struggle for Palestinian human rights in honor of Black History Month.
The screening and discussion will be held virtually via Zoom on February 19th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.