LOCKE AND KEY AND UNK POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT TO SCREEN ‘I KNOW I’M NOT ALONE’ THURSDAY, FEB. 22

Dr. William Aviles
Department of Political Science, 308.865.8776 OR avilesw1@unk.edu.
 
The Locke and Key student organization, along with the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of Political Science, will host a screening of the film “I Know I’m Not Alone” on Thursday, Feb. 22, in Copeland Hall, Room 142.
    
Free and open to the public, the screening will begin at 7 p.m., and a discussion will take place after the documentary is finished.
    
The film covers the travels of musician and human rights activist Michael Franti as he travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to examine the human cost of war.
    
Throughout the film, Franti interviews members of the U.S. and Israeli militaries, as well as Iraqi and Palestinian citizens. In the documentary, Franti manages to evade a bombing attack in Iraq, and later brings Israeli soldiers and Palestinian farmers together to try to resolve some of their differences.
    
Locke and Key Society is a political science student organization. The organization sponsors   political film screenings, political issue forums, and workshops for careers and graduate study in political science.