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Admit it, you moved to UC so you
could engage in actions for social change and then easily walk home. Solidarity,
during these wonderful times, is so much more fashionable now that you can
afford it.
See the cinema verite' of
today's political engagement. Hey, if that doesn't move you, help someone
out financially, who made an important political statement that
maybe was personally stupid.
Remember, if these jokers had
pulled the same stunt in a country with a hard to spell name, the benefit would
not be necessary, they would have been disappeared.
Aint politics in this country
great!
RNC 2004 Legal Defense Benefit and Video
Screening
Featuring: Unconventional TV and The Miami Model International House: 3701 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia October 16th 2004 1:00-3:30 PM Sliding Scale $1-$20 ****************************** In New York City over 1,800 people were arrested during the week of the Republican National Convention. Many were mass arrested, held in contaminated facilities, held for over 36 hours, and hit with outrageous charges. Many still have criminal cases pending and one person is still being held on $250,000.000 bail ! Come to the International House to see some of the first video footage from the RNC, compiled and produced by NYC Indymedia, Paper Tiger TV, Deep Dish, Youth Channel and the Grassroots Media Coalition. Hear legal updates and personal testimony from those who were in New York during the convention, and find out how you can help with the ongoing legal support in Philly and New York. Following the RNC footage we will screen the Indymedia feature length film "The Miami Model" documenting the FTAA protests in Miami, 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. All funds raised from the benefit will go to the RNC legal defense fund and Jamal Holiday's support/bail fund. For more information contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To help with RNC legal defense in Philly please subscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************* UNCONVENTIONAL TV: http://www.nycimcvideo.org/ An effort of NYC Indymedia and Paper Tiger TV (with Deep Dish, Youth Channel and the Grassroots Media Coalition) Unconventional TV aired live, one hour daily from August 29th to September 3rd, on MNN and Free Speech TV. This 28 minute documentary compiles footage from the streets during the Republican National Convention. ******************************************* The Miami Model : an indymedia production http://ftaaimc.org/miamimodel 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. 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. Craig Melidosian
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