Movie Night: Rights on the Line and Beyond Borders
Friday, November 6th 7pm
Join RCTA Board Member, Joy Nelson and RCTA Instructor, Megan McCormick as they lead a discussion about our southern border.
We will show two brief videos “Rights on the Line” and “Beyond Borders” and discussion will follow
About the films: Rights on the Line: In the name of “securing” the borders, private militias like the Minuteman Project are calling on citizens to join armed patrols on the U.S-Mexico Border, where blockade-style border control policies have created a virtual war zone for more than a decade. Rights on the Line exposes the ugly anti-immigrant politics that lurk behind the Minuteman Project and similar vigilante groups. Shot by human rights activists and border residents, the video tells the story of border crossers and communities whose rights are being violated-and provides a close-up look at vigilantes through interviews and disturbing footage of their nighttime patrols.
Beyond Borders: Over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 men, women, and children have died trying to cross the Sonoran desert in Arizona. As the death toll skyrocketed, people of faith began working together to prevent these desert deaths and to call attention to the border policies that contribute to them. While immigration is an emotionally-charged issue usually defined in political and economic terms, “Beyond Borders” reveals the human side of this complicated situation.
