Let’s get serious for a couple of weekends

This just in: Anyone interested in social issues should attend The Second Annual Human Rights Film Festival, which will be held over two weeks beginning Thursday. I’ve seen some of the films, and “American Gypsy” in particular would hold interest for those living in the region. It involves the legal case that the Marks family had, and probably still has, with the city of Spokane.

Films will be shown in the Moot Court Room of Gonzaga Law School , at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) and at the Seeley Mudd Chapel at Whitworth College .

Oh, by the way, all of the films are free and open to the public. The schedule is as follows:

Gonzaga Law School Moot Court Room
Thursday: U.S. Criminal Justice System
6:45pm: Professor Mary Pat Treuthart
7pm: “Presumed Guilty”
9:15pm: “Too Flawed to Fix”

Friday: Civil Rights
7pm: “Brothers and Others”
8:15pm: “Bringing Durban Home”
8:30pm: “Murder of Emmett Till”

March 25: Women’s Human Rights Issues
7pm: “Senorita Extraviada”
8:30pm: “The Day My God Died”

March 26: Roma and Stateless Persons
6:30pm: “Loneliness Kills”
7pm: Guest Speaker
7:30pm: “American Gypsy”
9pm: “Suspino: A Cry for Roma”

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC)
March 31: World Health (co-sponsored by the Spokane Human Rights Commission)
7 p.m.: “State of Denial”

Whitworth College’s Seeley Mudd Chapel
April 7:
7 p.m.: “Rana’s Wedding”

April 14
7 p.m.: “Bringing Down a Dictator”