DATE: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 6:00 pm

VENUE: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Auditorium A-5, 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC

RSVP: 202.727.1183

DETAILS: TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Writers' Corner and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library present a film screening of Stealing a Nation and book reading with David Vine, author of Island of Shame:  The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia. Stealing a Nation (56 min.) is an award winning documentary film by acclaimed investigative journalist John Pilger.  The film narrates the expulsion of the Chagossian people from Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians were exiled from their homeland by the U.S. and British governments so that Diego Garcia could be used as a major U.S. base. 

After the film, local author David Vine, will discuss the plight of the Chagossians and the history of Diego Garcia, the subjects of his new book, Island of Shame:  The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009).  David Vine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, at American University, Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Mother Jones online, Foreign Policy In Focus, Chronicle of Higher Education, International Migration, and Human Rights Brief, among others.

RSVP: 202.727.1183

For more information: 202.223.1960 ext. 137 or  info@transafricaforum.org.