From WOOD COUNTY GREEN PARTY
The Wood County Green Party is hosting a showing of “The Salt of This Sea,” a Palestinian film, at Woodland Mall cinema on Saturday, April 6 at 1 p.m.
According to the Media Decompression Collective “The Salt of This Sea,” is: “Annemarie Jacir’s politically charged feature debut is the story of Soraya, a Brooklyn-born woman who travels to Palestine to retrieve her grandfather’s savings, frozen in a Jaffa bank account after his 1948 exile. Her status as a dispossessed exile and encounter with contemporary politics provides a rare glimpse into the Middle East of today.
“Our first showing was a great success,” said Joe DeMare, co-chair of the Wood County Green Party, “‘Five Broken Cameras’ was a very moving film that showed the brutality and violence Palestinians suffer as Israel continuously annexes Palestinian land with illegal settlements.”
More than 25 people attended the first film and stayed for the Q & A afterwards that was mediated by Khani Begum, a retired film teacher from BGSU, and Ahmjad Doumani, of the Media Decompression Collective.
Doumani’s family is from Palestine and he is one of the organizers of the Palestinian Film Festival which is showing more than 20 films about Palestine in venues all over Northwest Ohio.
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“The US media does a very poor job of showing both sides of this conflict,” said Joe DeMare, “Even as we send billions of dollars’ worth of weapons into the situation, we are turning away from the root causes. If we don’t address those, the violence will continue. I urge everyone to come out to this film to gain a better of understanding of why the fighting has continued for so long. This conflict did not begin last October, and unless we understand who is fighting, and why, we have no hope of ever ending it.”
