[1273] in peace2
Re: FRIDAY MOVIE! "Missing" by Costa Gavras
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Voelker)
Fri Nov 30 11:05:19 2001
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Which reminds me:
I taped Ed Horman's widow this spring at UMass talking about her law
suit against Kissinger and the CIA. I can make that available if
someone is interested.
Martin
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Human Rights Forum with Joyce Horman and Jennifer Harbury
Wednesday April 25, 2001 at 4:00pm
On April 25th beginning at 4:00PM in the Faculty Club on the top floor of
the Healey Library at Umass Boston we are going to have a Human Rights Foru=
m
in which Joyce Horman and Jennifer Harbury will be the featured speakers.
Professor Winston Langley, a human rights expert here at UMass Boston, will
be the moderator.
Joyce is the widow of Charles Horman. Charles was arrested, tortured and
killed in Chile after the 1973 coup. Recent evidence supports the view that
the CIA had a role in his arrest and murder. Joyce will discuss that
evidence.
The academy award winning Costa-Gavras movie Missing starring Jack Lemmon
and Sissy Spacek was made about Charles=ED father and Joyce=EDs search for =
him.
The film will be available for viewing before and after the forum.
Jennifer Harbury is a Harvard trained lawyer who began working with refugee=
s
from Guatemala in the 1980s. Her work led her to Guatemala where she met an=
d
fell in love with Efrain Bamaca Velasques (Everardo), a guerilla leader and
Mayan Indian whom she later married. Everardo was captured, tortured and
killed in 1992. U.S. government officials knew about his capture and did
nothing to prevent his being tortured and killed. Furthermore, they withhel=
d
information from Jennifer even as she endured hunger strikes, one as long a=
s
32 days, which threatened her life. Her story has received international
attention. Now she has new information about our government=EDs involvement=
in
the murder of her husband.
One of the purposes of the human rights forum is to bring together students
and faculty from UMass Boston with students and faculty from other
universities to raise human rights issues. In other words we hope this
events will lead to additional forums in which faculty and students from
many departments and universities come together to address human rights
questions. We view the forum as something that will be ongoing and
interdisciplinary in nature.
Already at UMass it has gained the support of and is being co-sponsored by
the Provost=EDs Office, The College of Arts and Sciences, The Department of
Economics, Women=EDs Studies, The Radical Student Alliance, The Politics
Society, The Anthropology Department, The Gaston Institute, and the Hispani=
c
Studies Department.
**FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT, PLEASE CONTACT PAUL CANTOR AT
mailto:paulcantor@hotmail.com**
>WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 PM
>WHERE: Room 36-225
>WHAT: "Missing" by Costa Gavras (same director as Z)
>
>Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the story of
>an American father (Jack Lemmon) of conservative background who comes
>to a Chile to search for his missing son, a political activist. Ed
>joins with his daughter-in-law Beth (Sissy Spacek), who like her
>husband is politically polarized from the father, in prying through
>the bureaucracy and dangerous political intrigue in search of their
>son and husband. Little by little, the father comes to realize that
>his own beloved government is not telling him the truth.
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