Cinematic representations of the Vietnam War hit new levels of grim realism in the 1980s. In 1987 alone, Hamburger Hill, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket were released to American audiences, bringing violent and unforgiving images of the conflict into shopping-mall movie theaters everywhere. Filmmakers in the 80s explored the chaos, violence and cultural […]
A Hellenic Red Cross volunteer helps Syrian refugees arriving by boat (photo credit: Reuters) The movement of migrants from the Middle East to Europe and the West has been deemed an international crisis by media, government leaders and social media – where the hashtag #migrantcrisis has arisen to tag stories, images and discussions. In the […]
Since the beginning of human history, populations have moved from place to place, fleeing conflict, seeking opportunity or simply to explore new territory. And although immigration and migration are concepts as old as humanity itself, so are the tensions that arise as people travel from one homeland to another. What is often ignored, however, in […]
Growing up in Longmont, I learned about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from those who had lived through it. Several friends of mine came to the area as refugees, fleeing Prime Minister Pol Pot’s efforts to purge Cambodia’s intellectual elite and return the country to an idealized agrarian society as part […]
By Jessica Murison Imagine telling your husband that you were going to visit family, unaware that as you leave your home that day that it would be the last time you would see or hear from your husband for several years. What is unimaginable for most of us is reality for some refugees. And it […]
Tehran, as viewed from the Modares Expressway (wikimedia commons) As an undergraduate, Jonathan Pinckney began what would become a years-long endeavor to better understand the complex history of nonviolent revolution and rebellion in countries around the world, including in Iran. While studying abroad in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt, Pinckney, this month’s International Services Lunch and Learn […]
A scene from 1964’s Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Please check our website, redcross.org/colorado to find out when it will return. More than a half-century after its original theatrical release, the absurdity and razor-sharp satire of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or: How […]
By Thea Skinner Burundi has gone through three major waves of political upheaval in the past half-century that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing their homeland. The first upheaval occurred in 1972, the second in 1994; the third is happening today as crisis once again strikes the country. With both 1972 and […]
Over the course of 100 days in 1994, between 500,000 and 1 million people were slaughtered by the Akazu, radicalized members of the Hutu ethnic group, in Rwanda. The early days of this Rwandan genocide form the backdrop of this month’s International Humanitarian Law Film Series installment: Hotel Rwanda. The critically-acclaimed 2004 film details the plight […]
By Patricia Billinger One year ago, Yowali Kitungano had no idea of the fate of her father, brothers, sisters and nephew – where they were, whether they were alive, or how they were doing if they were alive. She hadn’t seen or heard from any of them since at least 1997. During a pair of […]