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Keeping Our Promise:A World AIDS Day Event

What is the current status of AIDS in Africa? What are Africans themselves doing to beat their AIDS crisis? How is the U.S. living up to its economic and political promises to help Africa curb the epidemic? What can you do to help?

Please join us for a film screening and spoken word performance in celebration of World AIDS Day 2005.

WHEN: Thursday, December 1 from 7:30-9:30pm

WHERE: International Center for Tolerance Education, 25 Washington Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn, New York

WHAT: Film screening of “We Will Not Die Like Dogs” with spoken word performances by the youth of Urban Word NYC. Q&A with global AIDS experts, filmmakers and poets to follow.

Visit www.governessfilms.com/aids for RSVP and directions.

WHY: Because AIDS is destroying Africa, enough said.

“We Will Not Die Like Dogs” is a film conceived by Drs. Kebba Jobarteh and Nduka Amankulor and directed by independent filmmaker and global health specialist, Lisa Russell. Slated for PBS broadcast in 2006, “We Will Not Die Like Dogs” is a feature length documentary film that profiles four African AIDS activist and their fight to curb Africa’s deadly epidemic– a well-known musician from Zambia who integrates AIDS prevention messages in his music, an HIV-positive teen peer educator from Nigeria, a Ugandan doctor who treats children with AIDS in the rural communities with minimal resources and an HIV-positive mother who fights against stigma and discrimination in Burkina Faso. A Radioaktive Film Production with funding by the National Black Programmers’ Consortium, Rockefeller Foundation, Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and the Philadelphia Foundation, “We Will Not Die Like Dogs” provides a refreshing look at the AIDS epidemic in Africa as seen by the people who fight on the front lines with it every day.

Starts12/01/2005
Ends12/01/2005
IssuesGay/Lesbian, Gender/Women, Health/Health Advocacy, Human Rights, International, Gay/Lesbian Health, AIDS, Africa, Media Literacy, African-American
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Contactvgraham@tmf-tolerance.org

Posted on December 1, 2005 in Event / Call to action by omlaura