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Derry - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Bloody Sunday WEEK 24-30 Jan

category derry | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Wednesday January 19, 2005 16:52author by Shane OCurry - Pat Finucane Centreauthor email pfc at iol dot ieauthor phone 028/048 71 268846 Report this post to the editors

This Year's Bloody Sunday week draws parallells between British State crimes in Ireland and British/US State crimes in Iraq and Israeli State Crimes in Palestine.

Truth-seeking in the cause of justice

Programme Film Strand

There is a crucial connection between justice and journalism. How can we build the solidarity needed to create justice if facts are distorted and the context that generates the facts is seldom if ever reported? And there is always the ultimate sanction of the powerful, where journalists who seek to report the full picture, themselves become a target.

All screenings 8pm at the Gasyard Centre (except Divine Intervention, see below), Admission Free

Monday 24 January
Free Derry Tours/ Bloody Sunday Tour.

Tours at 2.00pm Monday to Friday, departing from the Bloody Sunday Centre in Foyle Street. Tours at 12noon and 3.00pm Saturday will depart from Pilots Row. Family members or some of those wounded will accompany each tour. Tours cost £4.00 per person Mon-Fri (Saturdays free). For bookings contact Ruairi on 07793 285972.

(EXHIBITION) ‘Murder on a Sunday’, AOH Hall, Foyle Street.

An exhibition of Charlie McLaughlin’s paintings about Bloody Sunday will be on display in the AOH in Foyle Street from 24 January.

(EXHIBITION) An Fhirinne Exhibition Launch, Pilots Row, 7.30pm.

The Mayor Councillor Gearoid O hEara, will launch this powerful photographic exhibition of over 200 victims of state collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, followed by speakers from An Fhirinne Campaign and the Pat Finucane Centre. Exhibition runs each day until Saturday 30th January. All Welcome.

(FILM) News from the Holy Land (UK, 2004, 50 mins, Documentary) Gasyard Centre, 8.00pm.

Written/Directed by Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick this is an illustrated call for a change in the way the Palestine-Israeli conflict is reported.

Tuesday 25 January

Museum of Free Derry Exhibition launch, Bloody Sunday Centre, Foyle Street, 7.30pm.

An exhibition detailing the Bloody Sunday Trust's plans for the Museum of Free Derry in Glenfada Park. Exhibition open Tuesday 25 January to Tuesday 1 February.

(FILM) Death in Gaza (UK, 2004, 80 mins, Documentary), Gasyard Centre, 8.00pm.

Written/Reported by Saira Shah, Filmed/Directed by James Millar, this is his poignant and unflinching look at the lives of three Palestinian children caught up in the cycle of violence, dramatically culminating in the director’s own death at the hands of the Israeli Security Forces.

Wednesday 26 January

(FILM) Bi Dam (With Blood) (US, Work in Progress, 50 mins, Documentary),

Gasyard Centre, 8.00 pm.

By Dan O'Reilly Rowe and Juliana Friedman. Using personal situations to demonstrate the spirit crushing impact of the occupation on health care, Bi Dam gives insight into a crucial aspect of life in the cities, rural villages, and refugee camps of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Introduced on the night by Juliana Friedman (producer/director)

Bloody Sunday Memorial Quiz, Sean Dolan’s GAA Club, Creggan, 9.00pm.

All welcome, £10.00 per team.

Thursday 27 January

(PANEL DISCUSSION) From Bogside to Basra, Gasyard Centre, 7.00pm

Ironically the 30th January is the date the US Government chose for ‘their’ elections in Iraq. From three very different perspectives the panel will discuss the US/British illegal occupation of Iraq through the lens of Fallujah (where 13 civilians where shot dead by US Marines at a peaceful protest on 30th April 2003) and Derry’s Bloody Sunday. Speakers: Eddy Cherry, a former British Soldier, stationed in Derry, now a leading member of ‘Ex Soldiers Against The War’, Dr Abdul Al-Jibouri an Iraqi scientist, living in Derry and Paul O’Connor, Coordinator of The Pat Finucane Centre, Derry. Chair: Jim Keys

(FILM) Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya) Gasyard Centre, 8.30pm (2002, Fr/Ger/Morocco/Neth/US, 93 mins, Feature)

Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya) reeled in the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festive and went on to win the Screen International Award at the European Film Awards. However the US Academy Of Motion Pictures told the producers of the film that it was not eligible to compete in the Academy Awards (The Oscars) ‘as Palestine is not a state we recognise in our rules’. So it’s with great pleasure that we have this opportunity to screen this feature as part of this year’s programme. It’s an engagingly offbeat Palestinian response to how Israeli checkpoints disrupt and frustrate the lives of ordinary individuals. The film begins with a deadpan comic sequence involving neighbourly neuroses, rivalries and rage in Nazareth. There is intelligence and freshness in the film’s mostly wordless comic style.

Friday 28 January

Bloody Sunday Memorial Mass, St Mary’s, Creggan, 7.30pm.

All Welcome.

(MEMORIAL LECTURE) Annual Bloody Sunday Lecture, Guildhall, 8.15pm

The Annual Bloody Sunday Lecture, delivered this year by Geraldine Finucane, widow of the murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Event sponsored by the Bloody Sunday trust and the Pat Finucane Centre. Admission by donation.

Saturday 29 January

(PANEL DISCUSSION) Conflicts of Remembrance, Pilots Row, 12noon – 2.00pm.

Panel discussion and question and answer session where guest speakers will explore how and why we remember victims of conflict.

(PANEL DISCUSSION) The Truth of Bloody Sunday: Perspectives

Pilots Row, 2.00pm – 3.30pm.

Speakers John Kelly, brother of Michael, shot dead on Bloody Sunday, legal academic Angela Hegarty, Writer/academic Niall O Dochartaigh. The panel will present their perspectives on Bloody Sunday as people who have followed the Saville Inquiry, before the event is opened up for a Q & A with the audience. The event will close with the launch of an updated edition of Niall O’Dochartaigh’s book ‘From Civil Rights to Armalites’ which includes a new chapter on Bloody Sunday.

(PANEL DISCUSSION) Holy Cross in Context: Communities in Conflict over Shared Space in North Belfast, Pilots Row 3.30 – 5.00pm.

Was the horror at Holy Cross School in 2001, as loyalists attacked the school, the result of a breakdown of relations between two communities? Or just naked sectarianism? What was the damage and were any lessons learned? Anne Cadwallader, author of, "Holy Cross - The Untold Story", Tom Holland, republican community activist and Louanne Martin, who interviewed the children, try to answer these questions.

(FILM) Film Screenings, Pilots Row, 12noon – 5.00pm

‘Dangerous Liaisons’ (BBC Spotlight documentary on collusion); ‘Lifting a Dark Cloud’ (PFC produced documentary on Kathleen Thompson) & ‘Bloody Sunday: Massacre of the Innocents’ (Canada, documentary)

(PANEL DISCUSSION) At A Crossroads: Palestine & Ireland, Road Maps & Road Blocks to Peace Calgach Centre, 7.30pm

Speakers Dr Jamal Zahalka and Mitchel McLaughlin.

Dr Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian MP who sits in the Israeli Knesset and Mitchel McLaughlin MLA, Sinn Fein Chairperson and senior negotiator, will discuss the Irish and Palestinian peace processes, state repression and violence. Dr Zahalka has been centrally involved in the struggle for truth and justice around Israel’s own ‘Bloody Sunday’ against the Palestinian people. As Palestinians living inside Israel came out onto the streets in support of their comrades staging of a second intifada in the occupied territories, the Israeli police force opened fire, shooting 13 people dead. Since that day in October 2000 Jamal Zahalka has been working closely with the families of the dead in their efforts to take a legal case against the Israeli police force and its government. Dr Zahalka will speak on life as a Palestinian living inside Israel, on Israel’s murderous occupation of Palestinian land and its ruthless response to Palestinian resistance through its intifada. He will also speak on the current situation and the future direction for the peace process following the tragic death of President Arafat and the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new leader of the Palestinian people.

Traditional Music Night, Solas Arts Centre, Great James Street.

Traditional music, Adm £3.00, BYO.

Bloody Sunday Fundraiser, Gasyard Centre, 9.00pm – 1.00am

Live music and DJs – Cruncher, Gary Og, Declan McLaughlin, Eileen Webster, DJ One-Shot, Eamonn McCann, Joe Mulheron, Paul McCartney and Robbie McVeigh. Adm £5.00, BYO.

Sunday 30 January

Memorial Service at the Bloody Sunday Monument, Rossville Street, 11.30am sharp.

All welcome.

(MARCH & RALLY) Bloody Sunday March and Rally, Creggan shops, 2.30pm.

Speakers from the Bloody Sunday Families, an Fhirinne, Guest International Speaker, Palestinian MP, Dr Jamal Zahalka, Sinn Fein and the SDLP.

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