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DESCRIPTION:Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments and social hour at  
 6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nThe War on Democracy\nby John Pilger and Christopher 
 Martin\n\nThe U.S. has overthrown some 50 legitimate governments around the 
 world since WWII.   World class journalist, John Pilger, is all too 
 familiar with U.S. war policy and procedure abroad, both in the Middle East 
 and Latin America.  In this film, John Pilger focuses on Latin America.  He 
 shows the techniques (including those learnied at the School of the 
 Americas), the brutality, and the carnage of U.S. intervention in 10 Latin 
 American countries since the 1950s.  We learn, for example, the real story 
 behind the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in 2002 
 and how the people of the barrios of Caracas rose up to force his return to 
 power.\n\nYes, the people of Latin America are rising up!  In this film we 
 also learn about the rise of populist governments all across South America, 
 led by indigenous leaders intent on loosening the shackles of the U.S. and 
 intent on creating a fairer redistribution of the wealth from selling the 
 natural resources of their countries.  John Pilger says that his film 
 describes:  "the struggle of people to free themselves from a modern form 
 of slavery."  People who live in a world where they have next to nothing 
 except ideas like democracy, freedom, liberation, and justice are 
 reclaiming these for themselves with the power of their own courage and 
 humanity.  Courageous people are defending the most basic human rights of 
 all of us in a war that's being waged against all of us, the war against 
 democracy.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/20/18669713.php
SUMMARY:The War on Democracy
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/20/18669713.php
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