— Valarie Kaur
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath
The award-winning film by Sharat Raju & Valarie Kaur 2008 | 90 min | Color | U.S.A.
Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college student when she set out across America in the aftermath of 9/11, camera in hand, to document hate violence against her community. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American west, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis–racism and religion, fear and forgiveness–until she finds the heart of America: halfway around the world.
Winner of more than a dozen international awards, Divided We Fall “is an illuminating meditation upon what it has meant to be ‘one of us’ since September 11″ (Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School). On tour, the film is opening spaces for deep dialogue in 120 cities at more than 200 universities, festivals, religious centers, corporations, and schools around the world. It is celebrated as “a starting point for the new dialogue on race and religion that is essential to America’s future” (Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University and director of The Pluralism Project).
Brought to you by New Moon Productions, Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath is the first feature-length independent documentary film about hate crimes since September 11, 2001. Today’s resurgence of anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence makes the film relevant now more than ever.
About Sikhs
SIKHISM is the youngest of the major world religions. It is the fifth largest organized world religion. There are half a million Sikhs in the US and 23 million Sikhs worldwide. This means that there are twice as many Sikhs than there are our Jewish brothers and sisters, and yet very little social knowledge about Sikhs and Sikhism.
For additional information on Sikhs, post-9/11 prejudice, and what you can do to make a difference, please visit these links.
- An Introduction to Sikhism
- American Made
- Groundswell Movement
- Harvard Pluralism Project
- South Asian Americans Leading Together
- Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- SikhNet
- The Sikh Coalition
- The Sikh Next Door
- UNITED SIKHS