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DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: THE MIAMI MODEL  and a discussion on the state of campus 
 activism  Tuesday, October 26, 8 PM  UC Berkeley, 242 Dwinelle  ----------  
 THE MIAMI MODEL: an indymedia production  In November, 2003, trade 
 ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free 
 Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, 
 the environment, and public services like health care, education, and 
 water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across 
 North, Central, and South America.  Thousands of union members, 
 environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, students, farm workers, media 
 activists, and human rights activists who gathered in Miami to struggle 
 against the FTAA were brutally attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, 
 electric guns and shock batons, embedded reporters and information warfare, 
 all coordinated by the new United States Department of Homeland Security.  
 Against Capital's model of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, 
 and corporate rule, we offered models of grassroots resistance, creative 
 action and solidarity.  Breaking the Media Blackout  Collectively, 
 Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours of video footage documenting the 
 FTAA protests in Miami. This footage has been edited by the FTAA Miami 
 Video Working Group into a documentary that cuts through the mass media 
 blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties 
 that took place, as well as the life-affirming and inspiring alternatives 
 to capitalist globalization that were also in full effect in Miami.  The 
 ftaaaimc.org video working group is proud to present THE MIAMI MODEL.  
 ----------  Brought to you by Berkeley Global Justice and the Black Bear 
 Collective (BAAC). Email blackbearcollective@riseup.net for more info.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/10/13/49133.php
SUMMARY:The Miami Model
LOCATION:UC Berkeley, 242 Dwinelle
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/10/13/49133.php
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