Come and find out where the inspiration for all the changes going around the world came from.

Friday May 18th 2012 5pm

Poet's Den Theater

309 East 108th Street

New York, NY 10029

The East Harlem International Film Festival

The Barcelona – New York – Paris Human Rights Film Festival

A film about how half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world's dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime. People outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy', a 93-page, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE FILM, RUARIDH ARROW, AND GENE SHARP's COLLEAGUE JAMILA RAQIB, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTE WILL JOIN US TO DO PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

Learn more about Jamila Raqib

ON MONDAY MAY 21st JOIN US FOR A ROUNDTABLE

"THE OBJECTIVE AND DIRECTION OF THE ACTUAL PACIFIC REVOLUTIONS"

FEATURING:

Jamila Raquib President of the Albert Einstein Institute

Amy Goodman Co-Founder of Democracy Now!

Raphael Benavides from Human Rights Film Festival NYC

Poet's Den Theater 6pm

Reception to follow film screening at the Poet's Den Gallery

Festival Tickets: $10