[and PICK UP a free copy of Remember These Children - thanks to Bob Cable!] Tears of Gaza Showing Thursday, March 20, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record—presented with minimal gloss—of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military (with overwhelming approval and support of Israelis). Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg uses local Palestinian crews to provide footage of a Palestinian reality largely unseen by the Western media. Løkkeberg’s film tracks the everyday existence of a people living in a city ill-prepared to cope with a tragedy of such scale; it captures the stories of three children surviving in Gaza's impoverished infrastructure. "Few antiwar films register with the disturbing immediacy and visceral terror of Tears of Gaza. Almost purely observational, "Tears" doesn't take sides as much as obliterate politics: the bullet holes in the 2-year-olds did not arrive by accident... The inherent cruelty of so much of the action, committed against civilians with very little infrastructure, services or commercial goods, much less equipment to fight fires, comes through loud and clear... Production values are good overall, but the cinematography is the standout..." ~ John Anderson, Variety “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure Including roads and water” ~ Eli Yishai, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, 2001 "The UN has repeatedly found Israeli’s actions in Gaza to be a war crime.  [destroying infrastructure, targeting civilians, using indiscriminate force, using incendiary devices - white phosphorus ...]  ~Washington's blog When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film & free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights...