The newly produced film work Reading Group zooms into and interweaves three independent bookshops in Berlin and Honolulu - Hopscotch, Khan Aljanub, Native Books - each of which offers the nourishment for mind and spirit as well as a pu’uhonua (sanctuary, refuge or safe space) via a reading group and other forms of gathering for those whose practices move towards alternatives to the current colonial state structure of governance. Posing a question of ways in which revolution can take place and other ways of governing beyond statehood, the film also brings together activists and researchers from Palestine and Hawai'i, the places of different yet shared histories of colonial violence and oppression, for a potentially revolutionary reading group of transnational solidarity in the interchanging space of pō (darkness) and ao (light).



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