Central Coast Antiwar Coalition Screens “MIRAL” – Potluck and Fundraiser

Join the Central Coast Antiwar Coalition and CODEPINK-Santa Barbara for a tasty potluck, a fundraiser for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, and a screening of movie, a biographical film about the coming of age of a Palestinian girl named Miral who grows up in the wake of Israel’s 1948 dispossession of Palestinians. Bring your favorite dish, learn more about the plight of Palestine’s children facing mass starvation and watch the riveting Miral. RSVP: Marcy Winograd, marcy@codepink.org

From Wikipedia, “The film begins with a chronicle of Hind Husseini‘s effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalemafter the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Deir Yassin Massacre,[ and the establishment of the state of Israel. In Jerusalem in 1948, on her way to work, Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) comes across 55 orphaned children in the street. She takes them home to give them food and shelter. Within six months, the number of children grows to almost 2,000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute is born.

Miral (Freida Pinto) is sent to the Institute by her father in 1978, at the age of 5 following her mother’s death. Brought up safely inside the Institute’s walls, she is naïve to the troubles that surround her. Then, at the age of 15, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of the Palestinian refugees. When she falls for Hani, a militant, she finds herself torn between the First Intifada of her people and Mama Hind’s belief that education is the road to peace.”