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Hey everybody,
This week's film has been changed: we will show Fresa y Chocolate
(Strawberry and Chocolate), a Cuban drama that explores some of the ways in
which Cuban machismo culture has been challenged as a result of the
revolutionary process in that country. Come check it out!
For YSA, Simeon
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*Tuesday, Mar. 2, 7pm, 221 Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley campus)*
*Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate)*
Set in 1979 Cuba, Fresa y Chocolate is a highly acclaimed film that
dramatizes a period preceeding when Cubans made exceptional strides toward
correcting hundreds of years of colonial originated machismo, sexism and
homophobia. As the revolutionary transformation of Cuban society continues
today, machismo is under fire and on the decline, opening the door wider for
LGBT people to exercise their rights. After the film there will be a
discussion period, during which we'll bring the situation of LGBT people in
Cuba up to date.
----------------NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND-------------------
*Tuesday, Mar. 9, 7pm, 221 Wheeler*
*The Greening of Cuba*—This Food First (Institute for Food and
Development Policy) film profiles Cuban scientists and farmers working to
reinvent a sustainable agriculture based on ecological principles and local
knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. With the collapse of its
Russian and Eastern European trading partners in 1990, U.S.
embargoed/blockaded Cuba lost 80 percent of its pesticides and fertilizer
imports and half its petroleum. Cuba responded by attempting the now
UN-praised largest and most successful conversion to organic farming in
history.
*Tuesday, Mar. 16, 7pm, 221 Wheeler*
*Hidden Wars of Desert Storm*—This film recounts the brutal history of
U.S., British and French imperialism in the Middle East. An invaluable
review of Middle East colonial occupation and war from the 1920s to the
present. In 1990-91 the U.S. "Desert Storm" dropped more bombs on Iraq than
in the entire combined history of warfare. 250,000 Iraqis, mostly civilian,
were killed within weeks laying the basis for the present U.S. wars and
occupations.
*Tuesday, Mar. 23*
SPRING BREAK—no film this week!
*Tuesday, Mar. 30, 7pm, 221 Wheeler*
*Labor’s Turning Point*—John DeGraaf‘s classic account with live footage
of the 1934 socialist-led Minneapolis Teamster drivers’ strike and general
strike that followed. The exercise of working class power, unity and
democracy were pivotal in this depression-era confrontation of working
people against the bosses, city police and National Guard that led paved the
way to the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO),
America's most powerful industrial trade union federation.
*Tuesday, Apr. 6, 7pm, 221 Wheeler*
*Bread and Roses*—Los Angeles janitors organize for better wages and
working conditions. Up against some of the biggest businesses in the city,
they must employ every creative means conceivable to shame the building
owners and to win public sympathy. Meanwhile, the workers have to subsist.
The bosses attempt to buy off workers with promotions and to pitch one group
of workers against another to undercut the organizing.
*Tuesday, Apr. 13, 7pm, 221 Wheeler*
*Burn!*—Marlon Brando stars in this previously banned (in the U.S.)
classic of revolutionary politics and struggle. A small Caribbean island in
the early 19th century has the choice of overthrowing slavery and ending up
with capitalism—kicking the Portuguese masters out and letting the English
masters in—or a “permanent revolution” in which the oppressed struggle
against capitalism for socialism and liberation. When the revolutionary
masses attempt to take power, England does all it can to stop them.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo (Battle of Algiers).*
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Youth for Socialist Action* is a national network of young socialists – with
a chapter at UC Berkeley. By socialism we mean a world where human needs
come before profits – a truly democratic world that is free of exploitation,
racism, sexism and homophobia. We are confident in the power of our ideas
and our ability to change the world! We are committed to the emancipation of
working and oppressed people everywhere. We are active in the student,
labor, anti-war, feminist, anti-racist, immigrant rights, queer, and other
social movements that challenge the injustices of capitalism, and organize
people to stand up and fight in their own interests.
*YSA’s 10 Point Program:*
1. We stand for workers' democracy & socialism. We are active partisans
in the class struggle!
2. We fight against racism in all its forms. We are supporters of Black
and Chicano liberation, full sovereignty for American Indians, and we defend
the right of self-determination of all oppressed nationalities.
3. We are opposed to any and all discrimination based on gender or
sexual orientation. We support equal rights for all!
4. We fight to protect the environment from the ravages of capitalism.
5. We fight to empower young people, on campus, in the community, and in
the workplace.
6. We fight against police brutality, and any measures by the state to
take away or restrict our democratic rights.
7. We stand for free quality education for all, from pre-school to
graduate school.
8. We denounce imperialism, and oppose all U.S. foreign interventions,
regardless of the given justification.
9. We denounce the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and stand in solidarity
with the Cuban people & their revolution.
10. We advocate independent working class political action. Break from
pro-business politics!
*Join us! *ysa...@gmail.com
*Sponsored by* *Socialist Action*
*and* *Youth for Socialist Action*
Contact: ysa...@gmail.com
*www.socialistaction.org*
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