International Day of Peace: Film Screening and Discussion
- When
- September 21, 2015
- Where
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Rothko Chapel
3900 Yupon (at Sul Ross)
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $10.
To mark the United Nation’s International Day of Peace, the Rothko Chapel presents an International Day of Peace: Film Screening and Discussion Monday, September 21, at 7:30pm.
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley
Christopher Loperena, Ph.D.
Film in Spanish with English subtitles.
Q&A in English and Spanish; simultaneous Spanish and English interpretation available.
Explore the current economic and political situation in Honduras in the aftermath of the 2009 coup, the continued disenfranchisement of poor peasant farmers, and the dispossession on the Caribbean coast.
Dr. Christopher Loperena shares his firsthand account of the coup and holds a Q&A after.
Dr. Loperena is an assistant professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco and has worked with both Miriam Miranda and Berta Cáceres.
