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Today's Newsletter
  1. Webinar: "Understanding & Comparing Mass Protest Movements"
  2. Headlines
  3. Book Talk On French Politics
  4. What To Watch This Weekend
  5. Previous Webinars
Webinar
The French-American Foundation, in partnership with  Alliance , will host a Zoom webinar on Tuesday, June 16 at 1:00pm ET on mass protest movements in the US & France.



with
Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po
&
Distinguished Professor Emerita & Internationally renowned social scientist, scholar, and activist  

  • Topic: Social movements in the US & France
  • Date & Time: Thursday, June 16 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Headlines
# BlackLivesMatter
  • "This past Thursday, at 6 p.m., Keyonna Jones received an unexpected call from a fellow-artist, about a secret project starting in just a few hours. Was Jones available? The mother of two kids under ten, Jones scrambled to find child care. (...)" 

  • "Millions of Americans have experienced the coronavirus pandemic directly, as they or their loved ones suffered through infection. But for most of us, the experience is defined by weeks and months on end stuck at home. The shut-ins are testing the safety of our home environments. Stress and isolation combined with another feature of American life — easy access to firearms — could form a deadly brew. (...)"

  • "Democrats are challenging President Trump and Republicans over Confederate symbols, with calls to remove statues and rename military bases despite the president’s objections. The clash comes amid a national reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man killed in Minneapolis police custody. (...)"

  • "The WHO's Africa regional director Matshidiso Moeti said it was spreading beyond capital cities and that a lack of tests and other supplies was hampering responses. But she said that it did not seem as if severe cases and deaths were being missed by authorities. (...)"
Book Talk on French Politics
We’re pleased to invite you to join us for a webinar with William Drozdiak to discuss his new book,  The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive Europe and Save the World .



with
 Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia at McLarty Associates
The discussion will be led by Ambassador James G. Lowenstein, co-founder of the French-American Foundation

  • Topic: French Politics
  • Date & Time: Thursday, June 18 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
What To Watch This Weekend
In an effort to educate viewers about the topic of systemic racism, “Just Mercy”, “Selma”, the documentary “13th” and "American Son" are being offered for free on several digital platforms.

“Selma” (2015) - The film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2014 and tells the story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the three month charge from from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 to secure equal voting rights for all Black Americans.
-- on YouTube, Apple and Amazon Prime

" 13th" (2016) - The Academy Award-nominated film explores the historical and present-day ills of the U.S. prison system through historians, elected officials, academics and personal accounts.
-- on Netflix

“Just Mercy” (2019) - The movie stars Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan and dramatizes the real-life story of a wrongly accused death row inmate and a civil rights attorney.
-- on Amazon, AppleTV, Redbox, GooglePlay, and YouTube

"American Son" (2019) - The movie is based on the Broadway play of the same name, the 2019 film follows a black mother and white father as they desperately look for their 18-year-old son when he doesn't come home.
-- on Netflix
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