ARC Zoom Conversation

You are invited to join our Fall Retreat, ”Welcoming All to God’s Table"

The next event in our Fall Retreat is a Zoom conversation of “The Indoor Arm”.  This event is for people who missed the in-person conversation and also for people who went to the in-person conversation and would like to continue the discussion. The new date for the “The Indoor Arm” Zoom Conversation is Thursday, October 17, 6:30 pm.

The final event of our retreat will be a Multi Lingual Storyteller’s Circle, an in person gathering on Nov. 10th from 11am - 1pm in Fromm Hall.

The Indoor Arm” is a 30 minute episode of the Apple TV series, Little America. Please view this episode on your own prior to joining the Zoom on Oct. 17th. Unfortunately, Apple TV does not allow sharing on Zoom, so we are unable to show the episode together on Zoom. If you do not have access to Apple TV, ask your friends and neighbors if they have a subscription to Apple TV, and invite them to watch the episode with you. If you do have a subscription to Apple TV please considering being a “Champion” and inviting a few (3 - 6) people into your home to watch the episode together. If you are willing to be a “Champion” choose a date and time prior to Oct. 17th, and submit your invitation. It might be an easy way to grow your community in the parish or your neighborhood! The show is only 30 minutes long, so it is a small commitment. Please sign up below to RSVP to attend the Zoom conversation, and we will send you a link to the Zoom.

Here is a link to the episode on Apple TV, and a viewing guide.

The Indoor Arm” (2022)

Watch Little America · Season 2 Episode 8 · The Indoor Arm Full Episode Online - PlexLittle America - Episodes & Images - Apple TV+ Press

Characters: Ciela (younger sister), Mariana (elder sister), Mrs. Danforth (Bel-Air homeowner and Mariana’s employer), Ray (Mrs. Danforth’s resident gardener), Miss Dunning (Ciela’s teacher)

The characters we come to know on-screen and in print help familiarize us with the experiences and feelings of people like and unlike us. And, in doing so, they help us imagine alternative scripts for how we encounter and embrace each other.

“The Indoor Arm,” an episode of AppleTV’s inspired-by-true-life Little America series, brings together a cast of characters from vastly diverse backgrounds, during the 1980s, when “the Reagan Doctrine” provided considerable US resources to support anti-communist insurgencies in Central America. This policy contributed to destabilizing the region, increasing political and military violence, and producing large-scale migration to the United States, “as hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans fled north from civil war, repression, and economic devastation”. 

Resources:

• Salvadoran Civil War, Loyola University Chicago Library; 

• US intervention in Central America, Texas National Security Review’s Policy Roundtable on Reagan and Latin America; 

• Impact of Civil War and US intervention on US immigration, see this Migration Policy Institute report.) 

These characters offer us a way to imagine the multiple ways we offer welcome, connection, and sanctuary—and/or overlook, alienate, and even exploit each other.

To help us view and discuss “The Indoor Arm” in ways that help us consider how we are doing, and what more we can do, as a racially just immigrant sanctuary, we offer the following prompts to help you watch the episode. We won’t collect these, and you don’t need to “answer” all—or any—of these questions. Just consider this a tool to help you share and participate in our future Zoom conversation.

If you have any questions please contact Lucy Irwin or Ana Gonzalez Lane using this contact form.

Learn more about  ARC, the St. Ignatius Parish Anti Racism Committee.

Lucy Irwin, Member of the St. Ignatius ARC