What happened to the $10 dollars you donated to charity last year?

by Nelima

If you are a fan of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead AID,  ’What are we doing here?’ is a documentary you may want to watch. Here’s a synposis, for more information visit their website by clicking here.

WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? explores why the charity given to Africa over the last five decades has been largely ineffective and often harmful. The film tells the story of Brandon, Nicholas, Daniel and Tim Klein who travel across Africa in an attempt to understand one of the great problems of our time; the failure to end poverty.

Documentary on the Somali Refugee Experience

Getting Here from There: The Somali Refugee Experience

When: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009, 5:00-9:00pm

Where: Mondale Hall (Law Building), Room 25 University of Minnesota, 229 19th Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55455

 

From the refugee camps of Dadaab, Kenya to Libya, Malta, and the European mainland, Somali refugees have faced and continue to face harrowing journeys as they search for a better life, journeys that include detention, discrimination, and even torture.  The Somali Documentary Project is recording the stories of the Somali Diaspora as they happen, not only for historical record, but also to encourage action on important human rights issues raised by this wave of migration.  Join us for an evening of advocacy, discussion, and stories.

Ugandan documentary ‘Invisible Children’ screening tomorrow.

by Nelima

If you missed this documentary when it was showing at Metrostate, you have another chance to see it at the U of MN tomorrow.  “Invisible Children: The Rough Cut”  is a documentary about children in northern Uganda who commute every night from their homes into the streets to avoid attacks and abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army. 

It will be showing at U of MNs Wiley Hall rm 175 from 7:30-9:30pm.

“Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Mathaai” showing at Metrostate

This is the final film of the Women’s Human Rights Film Series.

“Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Mathaai”

Fri., April 3, 7 p.m.
Metropolitan State University Auditorium, 700 E. Sixth St.
Don’t miss this acclaimed documentary, the dramatic story of the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai,” tells the dramatic story of the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Her simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. A discussion follows the film with Mary C. Ellison, staff attorney at The Advocates and Korir Sing’Oei, founder of the Centre for Minority Rights Development in Kenya.