Thursday, August 21, 2008

[SDCPJ] ACTIVIST FILMS: Orwell Rolls in His Grave - FRI. Aug. 22 at 7:30; NONVIOLENT CONFLICT = Friday Sept 5; Life & Debt = Friday Sept 26, 2008

 
Activist San Diego Film Series  

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

Joyce Beers Center

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

The Film meticulously traces the process by which black may be turned into white, with frequent references totalitarian states both fictional and real --
 
"One of the most popular films on our schedule."
-- 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.”

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Life & Debt
a film by Stephanie Black 
 
Friday Sept  26, 2008    7:30 pm
 
Revealing the Transparent: Stephanie Black Unveils the
Jamaican World Beyond Tourism
 
Examining the Third World amid the process of globalism, Black found an intelligent and realistic view in the Jamaican people that is largely absent among the American public. "The people who are living under the structural adjustment programs, whose lives are impacted by this everyday, who when they go take a loan out, they know the interest rates are set by an IMF policy, have this clear understanding [of the IMF's function]."  
 
Pausing, Black adds, "That's what catalyzed the making of this film. Living in a country that was under an IMF program and realizing how little I knew about it, yet I came from the country that held the strongest voting power in the IMF, so where does my responsibility and culpability lie?"  
 
fabulous  soundtrack by Bob  Marley and other reggae artists
 
Joyce Beers Community Center

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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