"Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness"

Name: "Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness"
Start: 2024-09-26T16:30:00-08:00
End: 2024-09-26T18:00:00-08:00
Location: College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus

Schedule

Thu Sep 26 2024 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus | Las Vegas, NV

We will be a community screening of Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness, a documentary about a town coming together to take action after anti-immigrant violence devastates the community. In 2008, a series of attacks against Latino residents of Patchogue, New York culminate with the murder of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had lived in the Long Island village for 13 years.
Over a two-year period, the story follows Mayor Paul Pontieri, the victim’s brother, Joselo Lucero, and Patchogue residents as they openly address the underlying causes of the violence, work to heal divisions, and begin taking steps to ensure everyone in their village will be safe and respected.
After the screening there will brief panel discussion about the film and the ways Nevadans can come together to take action against acts of hate.