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DESCRIPTION:All day Saturday, November 29th in the New College of California Cultural 
 Center, the Activism and Social Change Programs at New College will be 
 presenting their 2nd Annual Festival of films focusing on resistance to 
 injustice as well as re-visioning and creating a better world.\n\n 
 \n\n11am\n\nVelorution (1996)\n\nA lively portrait of Havana Cuba during 
 the period shortly after the break up of the Soviet Union, when for lack of 
 oil, Cuba adopted the bicycle as the major means of transportation.\n\n 
 \n\nReturn of the Scorcher (1992)\n\nA spirited celebration of the bicycle, 
 which asks why this cheap, clean, quiet, and healthy method of 
 transportation isn’t more widely used in America.  Today, most of the 
 world relies on the bicycle for basic transportation, while in America 
 it’s now used primarily for recreation.  This creative film raises 
 fundamental questions about the nature of progress and seeks to inspire us 
 to consider the bicycle as a pollution-free – and fun – way to solve 
 some of our transportation problems.\n\n \n\n12:05pm\n\nZapatista 
 (1998)\n\nJanuary 1, 1994: A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern 
 Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as just become 
 law.  During the night, a small band of Indian rebels rises up in the state 
 of Chiapas demanding local autonomy.  They call themselves the Zapatista 
 National Liberation Army (EZLN). Combining the raw intensity of footage 
 from the front lines with a hip digital aesthetic, Zapatista is the 
 definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas.  Edited and designed by the 
 Media Boutique using the latest non-linear technology, it is the story of 
 how a few thousand Mayan peasants have transformed the political culture of 
 Mexico forever.\n\n \n\n1:10pm\n\nAftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9/11 
 (2003)\n\nWith the increasing controversy surrounding the federal probe 
 into the September 11 terrorist attacks, Guerrilla News Network decided to 
 pre-empt the government and produce its own version of a 'truth 
 commission'.  Aftermath features nine people answering eleven questions 
 that emanate from the terrible and, as yet, unexplained, events of that 
 day.  As you will see, these are questions that continue to overshadow and 
 critically challenge the official 'version' of the story.\n\n \n\n 
 \n\n2:05pm\n\nEl Che (1998)\n\nExtraordinary documentary of Che Guevara, 
 the man in the beret with the star, embodying one of the strongest myths of 
 the 20th century.  Using heretofore unseen archival footage, this film 
 chronicles the life of the uncompromising revolutionary from his early life 
 in Argentina through his radicalization in 1950’s Latin America, to his 
 Commandante role in the Cuban revolution, and controversial departure to 
 pursue a broader revolutionary effort  - “One, two, many Vietnams . . 
 .” - from Bolivia where he was murdered in a CIA led operation and thus 
 became a permanent and world-wide symbol of the “guerilla heroica”.\n\n 
 \n\n \n\n3:45pm\n\nWe Interrupt This Empire (2003)\n\nWhat 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 Bay Area Video Activist 
 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..." is a collaborative work by many of the Bay 
 Area's independent video activists which documents the direct actions that 
 shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following 
 the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including live 
 broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF Independent Media, the 
 documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets 
 of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the corporate media 
 coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial 
 Complex, attack on civil liberties, and the United States' current 
 imperialist drive.\n\n \n\n4:55pm\n\nBlack Panther Party & Beyond 
 (1996)\n\nOpening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in 
 America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the 
 establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin 
 Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back 
 to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the 
 Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights 
 movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native 
 American and women's power movements which followed\n\n \n\nThe party 
 struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a 
 terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 
 CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner 
 shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment 
 and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a 
 paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral 
 idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, 
 and narcissism\n\n \n\n \n\n7:00pm\n\nManufacturing Consent 
 (1993)\n\nFunny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing 
 Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, 
 world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic 
 collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative 
 graphics and outrageous illustrations, the film highlights Chomsky's 
 probing analysis of mass media. A mammoth, two-part project, Manufacturing 
 Consent is nonetheless light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages 
 viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his 
 listeners to extricate themselves from this "web of deceit" by undertaking 
 a course of "intellectual self-defense." Appearing in the film are major 
 journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., 
 Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, philosopher Michel Foucault, Nightline producer 
 Jeff Greenfield, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times 
 editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson.\n\n 
 \n\n\nAll Day Pass: $3 (no one turned away for lack of funds!)\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27453.php
SUMMARY:New College Activism & Social Change Film Festival
LOCATION:New College of California \nCultural Center\n766 Valencia Street (at 19th)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27453.php
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