Humanitarian Education.

Tonight, in my Arthouse films class, we watched a documentary called Darfur Now. A British girl who works with the I Vote for Darfur coalition was there with letters for people to sign that she would be taking to the capitol. I was at the South Carolina Save Darfur rally in October - it had a great turn out and was very moving and informative, but I am so glad I also had the opportunity to see this film for a class. It was powerful. At the same time as working on the emotions of the audience it also was massively informative. Hearing more details regarding the progress that was being made to recognize, if not try to stop, the genocide was both hopeful and despairing. But it was awesome having letters to sign that were being sent to representatives and the like... it reminded me of going to the Karmans or the Maynards growing up and writing something or signing something that would later change homeschooling laws. It was funny how the professor had just been telling us to think about our experiences and our filters through which we see films, and try to figure out what it is that we are bringing to a film before we see it, and something like signing some sort of homeschool lobbying letter years ago would come back to me in a South Carolina arthouse theater.