Director Eunice Lau and film subject Yusuf Abdurahman will be Journey’s Ends’ special guests for this talkback! The event is FREE & virtual.
Twenty-five years after Yusuf Abdurahman left Somalia as a refugee to begin his life anew in Minnesota — which has the largest population of Somalis in the United States — his worst fear is realized when his 19-year-old-son Zacharia is arrested in an FBI counter-terrorism sting operation.
Through the eyes of an anguished father desperate to understand why his young son would choose to leave his American life behind to attempt to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, Accept the Call vividly explores racism and prejudice against immigrants, the rise of targeted recruitment by radicalized groups, and the struggles of Muslim youth growing up in the US today.
This intimate film captures the story of a father and son attempting to mend their relationship after breaking each other’s hearts, showing how a parent’s worry for their children is a universal predisposition.
Join Center for Community Alternatives for a rally and press conference to protest the anniversary of the infamous ’94 crime bill and call for #CommunitiesNotCages.
The ’94 Crime Bill – passed on September 13, 1994 – decimated Black and brown communities, ballooned prison populations, and gave money to states for building jails and prisons in exchange for eliminating earned time and rehabilitative opportunities for incarcerated people. Much of the harm we collectively seek to undo with #CommunitiesNotCages spouts directly from this notorious federal legislation.
On Sept. 13, we will turn the page on the ’94 Crime Bill, memorialize those we have lost behind bars, and call for the passage of the Earned Time Act, Second Look Act, and Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Act. Please wear black and bring photos of loved ones behind bars.
Will you join us and help spread the word? RSVP here and share the action on social media. You can re-tweet here or download the graphic below & use this sample tweet/post:
- Sample tweet: The ’94 Crime Bill decimated Black and brown communities and exploded prison populations. On September 13, join us for a rally and press conference protesting the anniversary of its passage and demanding #CommunitiesNotCages. RSVP: bit.ly/CNC-Sept13
April 8th is the last day to visit the Attica NOW exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio! Attica NOW is the culmination of CALDODECULTIVO‘s four month research residency as part of the Displacement: Reclaiming Place, Space, and Memory exhibition program.
“Currently based in Buffalo, NY, CaldodeCultivo is a Spanish-Colombian art collective founded by Unai Reglero and Gabriela Córdoba in 2006. CaldodeCultivo addresses conflicts of a global nature that manifest in the local realm. Using different artistic languages, from public installation to video, the collective creates devices of counter-information, agitation, and provocation that work as catalysts for dissent.
During their residency, CaldodeCultivo examined the 1971 Attica uprising, which left 43 people dead, almost all of them killed by law enforcement officers retaking the prison. Attica NOW places the current conditions of prisons and detention centers at the center of their project and identifies incarcerated people, both past and present, as political subjects.”
