THE SUFFERING GRASSES Film Screening at Portland State University - January 24 at 7:00 pm

Panel discussion with Taghrid Khuri, Steve Nakana & performance with hip hop artist Omar Offendum follows.

Please visit: www.culturesofresistance.org/suffering-grasses

(PORTLAND, OR) - A year and a half after the revolution in Syria began, activists struggling for freedom in their country need support more than ever. Come and see our new documentary, The Suffering Grasses, a film on Syria's troubled revolution, which conveys the situation in all of its complexity and challenges people to get involved. Given the escalating violence, this is a crucial time to express solidarity.

We collaborated with the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University to organize this screening. Check out the trailer at www.culturesofresistance.org/suffering-grasses and spread the word!

When: Thursday, January 24, at 7:00 pm

Where: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, room 296/8, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland

Panel discussion with Taghrid Khuri, Steve Nakana & performance with hip hop artist Omar Offendum follows

Free & open to the public

http://www.pdx.edu/middle-east-studies/events/art-and-nonviolent-resistance-syria-featuring-hip-hop-artist-omar-offendum?delta=0

In solidarity,

IARA LEE * CulturesOfResistance.org
iaralee@CulturesOfResistance.org
www.facebook.com/iara.lee.filmmaker.activist
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