Tomorrow Night: Televising the Revolution at El RIo!

ANNOUNCING!
Televising the Revolution
a Radical Film Series at

El Rio Bar
3158 Mission St. @ Cesar Chavez, SF
(415) 282-3325 http://www.elriosf.com
21 & over, movies on the patio weather permitting

Please join us for summer Tuesdays of radical films, discussions, and
support local organizing while we're at it! Each film will benefit a
different local organization, but donations are appreciated, not required.
Our first feature will benefit the San Francisco Day Labor Program of La
Raza Centro Legal (http://www.lrcl.org). To kick it off, we'll be showing…

*** The Revolution will Not be Televised ***
Plus! Special presentation from organizers and workers with the Day Labor Program

TUESDAY, May 11th! 8pm

Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11,
2002, when Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, was forcibly removed from
office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned
to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's
shortest-lived coup d'état.

Save these Dates!
Check out our revolutionary future features on the subsequent fourth
Tuesdays at El Rio:

** Finally Got the News
Tuesday, June 29th 8pm
Out of the ashes of Detroit's Great Rebellion of 1968 came the Revolutionary
Union Movements at the Dodge (DRUM), Ford (FRUM), and Eldon (ELRUM) plants.
Workers shut down factories to fight discrimination, speedups and unsafe
conditions so horrible that more people were maimed or killed in Detroit
auto factories than in Vietnam. These RUMs coalesced into the League of
Revolutionary Black Workers.
All contributions will go to the People Organized to Win Employment Rights
(POWER)

** Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy
Tuesday, July 27th 8pm
A compelling documentary about how the global economy has forced people to
leave their home countries. This video presents three stories of immigrants
who left their homes in Bolivia, Haiti, and the Philippines after global
economic powers devastated their countries, only to face new challenges in
the United States.
All contributions will go to NNIRR

** The Fall of the I-Hotel
Tuesday, August 31st 8pm
This film brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal
eviction of the I-Hotel's tenants in 1977 ended a decade of spirited
resistance. Almost 20 years since the International Hotel's demolition, the
former site of the heart of Manilatown and home to more than 10,000 people
in the 1950s, is still vacant. Many of its surviving elderly residents still
seek low-cost replacement housing. This film resonates very clearly as
homelessness becomes a fact of life in many cities today.
All contributions will go to the Chinese Progressive Association

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*** Featured Organizations***

San Francisco Day Labor Program
http://www.lrcl.orgThe San Francisco Day Labor Program is a project of La Raza
Centro Legal, a non-profit bilingual legal agency dedicated to promoting
workers' rights and community empowerment, with a special focus on Latino
and indigenous communities.

People Organized to Win Employment Rights
http://www.unite-to-fight.org
POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers
fighting for real change. We have united to fight against the people who
defend the economic and social systems that are keeping us down. As an
organization of largely women and people of color, POWER connects its
struggle with the struggle of other working people around the world who make
up the backbone of the global economy.

National Network of Immigrant & Refugee Rights
http://www.nnirr.org
NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and
immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor
organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and
analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and
coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.

Chinese Progressive Association
http://www.cpasf.org
The Chinese Progressive Association is a grassroots membership-based
organization that empowers the Chinese community in the San Francisco Bay
Area and promotes justice and equality for all people. CPA’s campaigns and
programs improve the living and working conditions of low-income immigrants
and give ordinary community members a stronger voice in the decision-making
processes that affect them.

For more information, suggestions, or to help out, please contact
radfilms [at] lycos.com. See you there!