Join us on Monday April 10th at 21:00 for the sixth Cinema Politica-Berlin screening of our Spring season - 2017. Note that the screening is on MONDA

   
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Join us on Monday April 10th at 21:00 for the sixth Cinema Politica-Berlin screening of our Spring season - 2017.

Note that the screening is on MONDAY and that we will screen at our traditional location: Du Beast: Innstraße 4, 12045 Berlin, Germany

The screening will start at 21:00, so please make sure to arrive on time.

This is a link to the Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/210026926148725/

Pinkwashing Exposed (2015)

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Pinkwashing

Queer activists fight against the Israeli pinkwashing propaganda in their community and provide a strategic primer on intersectional social justice activism.

SYNOPSIS
"Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initiated it as part of a rebranding campaign has been engaged in for the last decade.

In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region. Local queer Palestine solidarity activists exposed the "Rainbow Generations" tour as pro-Israel propaganda and got some of the events, including the tour's centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle's LGBT Commission, cancelled. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle's leading LGBT and HIV organizations. Through the inspiring story of these activists' victory, PINKWASHING EXPOSED explores how pinkwashing works and what local activists are doing to fight back. The film was made in Seattle, on Duwamish Land.
TRAILER
https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/pinkwashing-exposed

Original title: Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back
Languages: English (with subtitles)
Directors: Dean Spade
Release date: 2015
Run time: 56 min

Date: MONDAY, April 10th, 2017
Time: 21:00
Location: Du Beast, Innstraße 4, 12045 Berlin, Germany

ABOUT
Cinema Politica Berlin is a non-profit organization that regularly hosts alternative,
independent, and controversial political film screenings in Berlin. We believe in the power of cinema not only to entertain, but also to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change. Cinema Politica is the largest volunteer-run, community and campus-based documentary-screening network in the world.

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Cinema Politica Berlin
Team: Colette Beukman, Subhodeep Jash, Rina Hajdari, Sebastián Martínez, Luke Sherman, Jon Vrushi
http://www.cinemapolitica.org/berlin
berlin@cinemapolitica.org

Supported by the Hertie School of Governance Student Association

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