Orwell Rolls in His Grave
at Vermont St just north of Univ. Ave, Hillcrest, San Diego, Ca 92103 (next to Trader Joe's)
Friday, August 22, 2008 7:30pm
at Vermont St just north of Univ. Ave, Hillcrest, San Diego, Ca 92103 (next to Trader Joe's)
"A marvel of passionate succinctness, Robert Kane Pappas' docu critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Docu asks, "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..." -- Variety
-- Free Speech TV
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A FORCE MORE POWERFUL
A CENTURY OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT
Friday Sept 5, 2008 7:30pm
Two-Part Documentary Explores
The Triumph of Nonviolent PowerThroughout the World in the 20th Century
Ben Kingsley Narrates Series
A FORCE MORE POWERFUL: A CENTURY OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT, a riveting three-hour documentary tells one of humanity’s most important and least understood stories – how, during a century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle brutality and oppression with nonviolent weapons – and won.
A FORCE MORE POWERFUL uses stunning archival footage to present stories of successful nonviolent movements around the world. Each includes interviews with witnesses, survivors and unsung heroes who contributed to these century-changing events. In part 1 the stories include:
The 1960 Nashville, Tennessee campaign to desegregate the city’s downtown business district, which was emblematic of the American civil rights movement. It profiles the Rev. James Lawson Jr., who studied Gandhi’s techniques in Nagpur, India and later joined forces with Martin Luther King Jr. to become a principal architect of the African-American struggle. His intensive training workshops for college students on the techniques of nonviolent resistance drove the success of the Nashville sit-ins and boycott, and became what King called “the model of the movement.”
Mohandas Gandhi’s famous Salt March of 1930, during which he enjoined Indians to protest the British salt monopoly – a turning point in the movement that paved the way for India’s independence from Britain. Gandhi, the most influential figure in the history of nonviolent resistance, steered a shrewdly strategic, ever-escalating course of “noncooperation” that included mass demonstrations, strikes, and the boycott of British goods.
The consumer boycott campaign against apartheid in the black townships of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa in the mid 1980s, led by the young activist Mkhuseli Jack. Radicalized at the age of 18 by laws that kept him from enrolling in school, Jack founded the influential Port Elizabeth Youth Congress and became a key leader of strikes, boycotts, and other grassroots efforts, which reverberated throughout the country and were instrumental in defeating apartheid and freeing Nelson Mandela.
The national protest days led by Chilean copper miners in 1983, which overcame a decade of paralyzing fear, showed that public opposition to the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was possible, and signaled the start of a nonviolent democratic opposition. Brutally repressed, opposition forces persisted and eventually removed Pinochet’s military government in a 1988 referendum..
“Although it is indebted to the many leaders of these movements, history shows that strategy and discipline determine a campaign’s success,” says filmmaker Steve York.
“The stories that comprise A FORCE MORE POWERFUL demonstrate how nonviolent conflict is enacted through well-planned campaigns.”
“The greatest misconception about conflict in our century is that violence is always the ultimate form of power,” says Peter Ackerman, the series editor and principal content advisor. “But Indians, Danes, Poles, South Africans, Chileans, African-Americans, and many others have proven that to be wrong.”
“The ability to produce enormous change without violence shouldn’t come as a surprise,” observes York. “We see nonviolent change occurring every day – through political diplomacy, popular culture, and advertising. What makes strategic nonviolent action so compelling, and so important, is that it cannot only induce change; it can do so in the face of violent opposition. It’s happened many times before. It can happen again.”
Download free study guide http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/films/pdfs/studyGuide-en.pdf
Jamaican World Beyond Tourism
at Vermont St just north of Univ. Ave, Hillcrest, San Diego, Ca 92103 (next to Trader Joe's)
please use Ralph underground parking lot
****This Event is Free****
(Nobody turned away for lack of funds - Donations Gladly Accepted)
For more info: (619) 528-8383 or www.ActivistSanDiego.org
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi
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