Wednesday, May 27th 5:30 - 7:30pm UC Law San Francisco 333 Golden Gate Avenue, 5th Floor
Please join the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE) Center, and the Law & Society Association (LSA) for a film screening and discussion exploring the Sanctuary Movement that took root in the United States in the 1980s.
The movement, born in a time when the U.S. rejected the asylum claims of those fleeing U.S. funded wars in El Salvador and Guatemala, was, and continues to be a concrete form of resistance. This year, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention during a time of unprecedented global abandonment of the obligation to protect those fleeing persecution. We come together at this moment to draw inspiration from the Sanctuary Movement, and the courage and conscience of those who have participated in it.
The event will feature a presentation by documentary filmmaker Theo Rigby, with excerpts from two of his films, and will include remarks by Karen Musalo, Ming Hsu Chen, Jose Artiga and Pastor Drew Paton. | 
