From: Paul Bullock (paulbullock@EBMS-LTD.CO.UK)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 09:12:18 EDT
> From: "Joni Mitchell" <time4change@care2.com> > To: directaction@lists.riseup.net > Subject: Premier of "We Interrupt this Empire" > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:15:33 -0700 > > WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE... SCREENS JUNE 10TH AND JUNE 11TH AT THE > RED VIC MOVIE HOUSE in San Francisco. > > (Video also available for ordering. Please visit the VAN website > below.) > > What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot > aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? > > The San Francisco Video Activists' Network presents the story you > won't see on Fox News: an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay > Area's radical resistance to an illegal war. WE INTERRUPT THIS > EMPIRE... screens Tuesday, June 10th at 7:15pm and 9:15pm and > Wednesday, June 11th at 2pm, 7:15pm and 9:15pm at the Red Vic Movie > House in San Francisco. Regular admission is $6.Guest speakers and > the filmmakers will attend the screenings for a question and answer > session after the show. > > > Composed of various segments, the first half of WE INTERRUPT THIS > EMPIRE... is a collaborative work from some of San Francisco's finest > independent videographers. Jino Choi and Jessica Lawrence document > the direct actions that shut down both the financial district of San > Francisco on the morning of March 20th and the corporate profiteers > of the Bay Area over the following weeks. The Whispered Media video > collective allows the pro-war protesters to speak "in their own > words". "The Logic of Empire" by David Martinez and Iain Boar > considers the war as the first steps in a new imperialist project > with Iraq as its first subject. "War American Style" by Natalija > Vekic, Monica Nolan and Christian Bruno is a sly critique of the > corporate media's role as Pentagon stenographer where mainstream news > media clips are re-assembled and examined for gross inaccuracies, > glaring omissions and corporate biases. "The War Profiteers" by Miles > Montalbano shines a light on the Military Industrial Complex and > looks at corporations with close ties to the Bush administration and > their ability to influence policy and profit from war. The second > half of the program will be selects from "Shutdown Downtown Fogtown", > a daring collection of on-the-scene videos from the historic anti-war > protests that shutdown San Francisco. > > The Red Vic Movie House is located at 1727 Haight Street in San > Francisco. For more information, the public can call 415 789 8484 or > visit http://www.videoactivism.org. > > Proceeds from WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE... go to the Video Activists' > Network and Whispered Media. The VAN is an informal association of > activists and politically conscious artists using video to support > social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. Whispered Media > is a collective that offers video witnessing, support and training, > collects archival political footage, and produces video works about > specific grassroots campaigns and organizations. > > > http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com > http://www.videoactivism.org > > ===== > "To the socialist it is not the horrors of war that are the hardest to endure ... but the horrors of the treachery shown by the leaders of present-day socialism" - Lenin > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com >
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