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"Witness at Tornillo" film

Join fellow witnesses at the La Plaza Bus Terminal Parking Garage (4th level) for a FREE screening of the documentary film Witness at Tornillo - A Carbon Trace Production.

The film follows one man from Brooklyn as he sits alone in a West Texas desert, 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 who has become a fixture of the #FamiliesBelongTogether protests. 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.

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"Witness at Tornillo" film

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Out of the Darkness: Bring Your Light to the Border