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Reminder - Global Economic Justice Film Festival (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Fri Aug 23 18:00:36 2002
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:33
From: Basav Sen <basav@igc.org>
Everyone,
Please come to this important festival, which is happening at the same
time as the huge protests planned in Johannesburg, South Africa, against
the sham World Summit on Sustainable Development.
The Western media are likely to totally ignore the huge protests by
South African miners, shantytown dwellers, agricultural workers - who are
just as badly off today as they were under apartheid, thanks to the economic
policies of privatization and austerity imposed by global institutions
like the IMF and World Bank, and willingly implemented by the South
African elite. People from throughout Africa and the rest of the world
are also converging on Johannesburg to protest.
But let us show that there are people in Boston who do care about a
*real* end to apartheid, which includes global economic apartheid. So
please come to the festival, and support the movement for global
justice!
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BankBusters presents:
GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE VIDEO FESTIVAL
Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St., Brookline (Coolidge Corner
stop on the Green C Line).
Friday August 30 through Sunday, September 1.
A fundraiser to support the local mobilizing for the September 28-29
protests in Washington DC against the annual meetings of the IMF and
World Bank. All shows $5-$15 sliding scale.
For more info on the festival, contact BankBusters:
617-755-0795 www.bankbusters.org
noimfwb@yahoo.com
FRIDAY AUGUST 30, 7 pm and 9 pm
Double feature of the following two films (each show features both
films):
"Not for Sale/ No se Vende" (32 minutes, 2002)
Global trade agreements expand what corporations can own and control -
from things like machines to knowledge and even living creatures. What
does this mean for the environment, our food supply, and human rights?
With beautiful footage from the head waters of the Amazon, farms in
Washington and Iowa, as well as India and Peru, plus glimpses of the
Seattle WTO protests, NOT FOR SALE brings this global issue into focus
with stories of everyday people.
"Another World is Possible: Impressions of the 2002 World Social Forum"
(24 minutes, 2002)
What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to
discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change
it? In early 2002, public officials, representatives of
non-governmental organizations, indigenous nations, farmers, and labor,
including 11,000 young people, gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the
World Social Forum, which was called in response to the elite gathering
of the World Economic Forum. Another World is Possible presents a
sampling of the issues and events at this enormous and creative
gathering.
Both films produced by: Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young
For more info: www.movingimages.org
SATURDAY AUGUST 31, 7 pm and 9 pm
Double feature of the following two films (each show features both
films):
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the IMF (30 minutes,
1996)
"Deadly Embrace" documents the current neo-liberal economic order as it
"embraces" Nicaragua. The video combines outstanding footage of people’s
lives and their struggle to survive with a textbook-clear analysis.
"A powerful and entertaining documentary that effectively humanizes
critical economic issues." – David Wildman, The Boston Globe.
Director Liz Canner will be present to answer questions at the 7 pm
show.
Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy (28 min., 2001)
A compelling documentary about how the global economy has forced people
to leave their home countries. UPROOTED presents three stories of
immigrants who left their homes after global economic powers devastated
their countries. These powerful stories raise critical questions about
U.S. immigration policy in an era when corporations cross borders at
will. Their stories are a testament to the hardship caused by policies
that favor the rights of corporations over the needs of people as
immigration laws around the world grow increasingly restrictive.
Uprooted is a production of the National Network for Immigrant and
Refugee Rights with the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights and
Caminante Cultural Work.
Co-produced by: Ulla Nilsen, Sasha Khokha, Francisco Herrera, and Jon
Fromer.
For more info: www.nnirr.org
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 7 pm and 9 pm
Narmada: a Valley Rises (86 minutes, 1994)
This film documents a 200 kilometre non-violent march in India,
involving 6,000 participants. The march is an important event in the
history of the long struggle by farmers and indigenous people against a
partially World Bank-funded dam, which will provide water and
electricity to industry, agribusiness, and affluent urban consumers,
while destroying hundreds of tribal and farming villages and displacing
over 160,000 people. The march shown in this film was instrumental in
forcing the World Bank to withdraw from the project. But the struggle
against the Government of India goes on.
Produced by: Ali Kazimi.
For more info: http://www.socialdoc.net/kazimi
