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The Subversive Act of Seeing - “Witness at Tornillo”: Screening and Q&A

To register for this Zoom Webinar: https://www.mobilize.us/witnessattheborder/event/373939/

This film follows one man from Brooklyn as he sits alone in a West Texas desert in 2018, feeling morally compelled to witness the horrors of family separation and child detention on the southern border. His goal is to shut down an American internment camp and free 2,800 migrant teenagers kept against their will. “Witness at Tornillo” follows 66-year-old Josh Rubin, an activist for immigrant rights. He helped draw national attention to the Tornillo facility, moving on from there to a similar youth detention facility in Homestead, Florida. Rubin defines witnessing -- the "radical act of seeing" -- as a key form of protest. Q & A after the film.

Film trailer: https://vimeo.com/347136517

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