New York Metro WILPF - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Background

wilpfnycoordinator — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:50:22 -0400

Since its independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the Congo) formerly known as Zaire, has been a hotbed of violence and conflict. Straddling the equator, the central African country has a tropical and humid climate. The Congo is surrounded by the countries of Angola, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

The Congo’s population, which is 56 million, comprises more than 200 ethnic groups. An estimated 65 percent of the population can read and write in French, the official language. The proportion of people who have entered primary school has decreased steadily since the wars began in 1993.

FILM SCREENING - "Lumo"

admin_wilpfnet — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:39:33 -0400

Start: 06/21/2008 - 14:00

End: 06/21/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

YOU ARE INVITED to view this films shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

"Lumo"

Lumo, tells the story of a twenty year old woman whose fiancé and family rejected her after she was raped by marauding soldiers and left incontinent and possibly sterile.

Bloomingdale Public Library
150 West 100th Street
Between Columbus & Amsterdam
Film begins at 2:00 PM

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Since 1998 a brutal war has ravaged the Congo, killing over 4 million people and resulting in tens of thousands of women and girls being raped and mutilated by soldiers from neighboring militias and the Congolese army.

This is Hi-Tech genocide. The Congo is rich in natural resources, diamonds, gold, plutonium and iron, etc. Eighty percent of the world’s coltan is in the Congo which is used in cell phones, laptops and other high-tech products. The war is being fought by armed militias sponsored by multinational corporations and foreign countries, including the U.S., They want to control the land and exploit these natural, precious resources. While women are being raped as a weapon of war, Congolese men are either killed or forced to join the conflict.

FILM SCREENING - "Lumo"

admin_wilpfnet — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:31:13 -0400

Start: 06/16/2008 - 18:00

End: 06/16/2008 - 21:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

YOU ARE INVITED to view this films shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

"Lumo"

Lumo, tells the story of a twenty year old woman whose fiancé and family rejected her after she was raped by marauding soldiers and left incontinent and possibly sterile.

Schomburg Research Library
135th and Lenox Avenue
Film begins at 6:00 PM

In the American Negro Theatre

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FILM SCREENING - "The Greatest Silence"

admin_wilpfnet — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:29:34 -0400

Start: 06/12/2008 - 18:00

End: 06/12/2008 - 21:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

YOU ARE INVITED to view this films shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Schomburg Research Library
135th and Lenox Avenue
Film begins at 6:00 PM

In the American Negro Theatre

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