Rebecca Sommer's 'Indigenous Peoples' Documentary will be Screened at Montreal Human Rights Film Festival (fwd link)

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March 4, 2008

Rebecca Sommer's 'Indigenous Peoples' Documentary will be Screened at Montreal
Human Rights Film Festival

By David M. Kinchen
Editor, Huntingtonnews.net

An "eye-opening and heartfelt" documentary made by New York City-based filmmaker
and human rights advocate Rebecca Sommer will be screened March 29, 2008 at the
Montreal Human Rights Film Festival. Sommer's activities with indigenous
peoples around the world have been covered extensively by Huntingtonnews.net
for the past few years.

What can you do when your land has been taken away from you, your culture
destroyed and your language is dying? How does it feel when history books
describe your ancestors as savages and the people who killed and displaced them
are portrayed as heroes? Where can you go with your grievances, when the courts
will not take your cases and the polices treat you as an enemy? When disaster
strikes and atrocities are committed, the world looks to the United Nations to
intervene, react and to help, but for the longest time, the doors of the UN
were closed to indigenous peoples and for decades they were left to fend for
themselves.

Full article link below:
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/events/080304-kinchen-eventsindigenouspeoples.html