1:1 Center for Art and Politics and the ARDC - African Refugee Development Center marked World Refugee Day with a busy broadcast schedule dedicated to the struggle of black people and refugees to fulfill their right to liberty and security.

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Hosts: Yaser Abdallah (1:1), Guli Dolev-Hashiloni (ARDC)

The artist Oren Fisher illustrated the broadcasts with his electronic pen as a part of the 1:1 TV broadcast.

Police brutality in Israel - Panel discussion

Participants:

Adv. Efrat Bergman Sapir - Head of the legal department, The Public Committee against Torture in Israel

Solomon Gebreyohanes - Eritrean community leader, ARDC board member, reception manager in ASSAF

Bar Peleg - Journalist, Haaretz

Dr. Eli Cook - Head of the USA studies program, University of Haifa

Eritrean music with the krar builder Merhawi Gobre 

Civil rights activism, politics and art in the public sphere - Panel discussion

Participants:

Abed Abu Shehadeh - Member of Tel-Aviv City Council, Yaffa party

Efrat Yerday - Sociologist, Chairperson of the Association of Ethiopian Jews 

Awet Madhane - Eritrean poet and political activist

Adv. Barak Cohen - Political and social activist

Noureldin Mohammed Adam - Sudanee actor in the Stage for African Israeli Theatre 

Screening of "Manpower" (Israel, 2014, 85 min) - Noam Kaplan's renowned film, about the tense relationship between asylum seekers and police in southern Tel Aviv. Hebrew with English subtitles. Producers: Gum Films.

Event organizers: Adi Englman, Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Omer Krieger

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World Refugee Day 2020 was a joint event by MARCEL art projects, the African Refugee Development Center and the 1:1 Center for Art and Politics.

Due to the Coronavirus restrictions, the entire event was broadcasted on Facebook, in order to maintain physical distance and at the same time social solidarity within local society.