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Western Sahara Solidarity - Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara.Venue: 2/57 Willis Street
Time: 6pm kai provided. Film starts at 6:15pm
Koha: $10 unwaged, $15 waged. Proceeds go to Western Sahara Solidarity. Koha suggested but all welcome.
Hear from visiting Sahrawi activist, Hlaila Ahmed. Hlaila is a translator and journalist and director of the Feminist Gender Group in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria.
More about the film:
What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent movements around the world? Join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers. More than four decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony. While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
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2/57 Willis St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, 57 Willis St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington
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