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"The Activist World"
Friday, November 1st, 2002, 8pm
at Artists' Television Access (ATA)
(992 Valencia Street at 21st Street)
Admission is $5-10 sliding scale
(No one turned away for lack of funds).
Wheelchair accessible.
On Friday, November 1st, Whispered Media and the San Francisco Independent Media Center present "The Activist World," an evening of radical videos about the threat of corporate globalization to highlight the upcoming summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quito, Ecuador.
The Free Trade Area of Americas (FTAA) is an international business deal, disguised as a proposed treaty between nations, that would create the world's largest free market zone- affecting 650 million people and $9 trillion in capital. These meetings will be held from October 27 to November 1, 2002 in Quito, Ecuador, home turf for some of the strongest social movements in the Americas.
Ecuador's indigenous, campesino, labor, womens', environmental, and youth organizations have vowed to shut the summit down, and are calling for solidarity actions across the continent. Bay Area independent media activists are responding with this evening of audio and video about the growing global resistance movement at Artists' Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco's Mission District.
On the Ground with Big Noise Tactical (Big Noise Tactical, 2002, 10-15 minutes) A video activist from Big Noise Films sends these video news reports from the countryside and streets of Argentina and Ecuador where currently tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets and taking back the land.
Argentina Report Back (15 minutes) A slideshow and talk placing the struggle in Argentina, and the larger South American economy, in the context of corporate globalization.
The Ecuador Freekbox (Whispered Media, 2002, 5 minutes) Documents the container shipment of Linux computers to Ecuador for the protests against the seventh summit of the FTAA in Quito. Describes the process of recycling abandoned computers and rebuilding them for Ecuador Indymedia and the grassroots groups coming to shut down the FTAA.
Trading Freedom: The Secret Life of the FTAA (IMC-FTAA Video Working Group, 2002, excerpts) (Sneak Preview!) The Independent Media Center FTAA Video Working Group offers an explanation of what the FTAA is, what it will mean, and how people across the Americas are resisting it. This one's got it all - indigenous struggles, working-class resistance, women vs. the FTAA, Your Biotech Future, media activism, the NAFTA Chapter 11 mechanism, and the ever-popular "state repression of dissent! Footage from Akwesasne, Chiapas, Quebec City, Sao Paulo, and Tijuana and the combined efforts of over 100 videographers, photographers, free radio outlaws, writers, editors, techs, and rabble-rousers make this the perfect background to the Bay Area's local anti-FTAA events.
The Horribly Stupid Stunt (The Yes Men, 2002, 24 minutes) Witness The Yes Men as they deliver a deathly horrible lecture to a group of high-powered lawyers who think they are listening to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The lawyer's shocking response drives The Yes Men to the depths of depravity, with stupid results. Fun for all!
A Round-up of the week's Bay Area FTAA direct action and protests against multinational evil!
Extra Surprise Shorts!
For more information contact:
Whispered Media
(415) 789-8484
wm@videoactivism.org
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