[IPSM] TOMORROW: nov. 16 REELS OF RESISTANCE

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+++++PROGRAMME details: Leaded/Unleaded (Beirut); About Baghdad
(Baghdad); Hunters and Bombers (Innu territory/Quebec); UAIL Go Back; more !
(See below.) +++++

REELS OF RESISTANCE // BANDES DE RÉSISTANCE
A Night of Anti-Imperialist Cinema -- and  fundraiser for Block the Empire
Montreal.

Tuesday, 16 November 7 PM
McGill University, Leacock Building, Room 26
5 $ (suggested donation - pay what you can)

Join us for a night of films on globalisation and militarisation. Films
about frontline resistance to worker exploitation, occupation, resource
theft and other attacks of capitali$t globalization. A montage of resistance
from around the world to the brutal oppression of struggles for justice,
dignity and self-determination.

LEADED/UNLEADED: The state unleashed. produced by Indymedia Beirut (summer
2004).
On Thursday May 27, 2004 a full day general strike was called in Beirut,
Lebanon by the General Labor Confederation to protest skyrocketing prices
and lack of social services. In the Beirut neighbourhood of Hay el Seloum,
one of the poorest working-class areas in the country, a protest planned by
taxi and minivan drivers, began at 5 am. As residents of the working-class
neighborhood began heading towards the main demo, the Lebanese army opened
fire. The protests spread, from Ouzaii, to Gallery Semaan, to the Labor
Ministry which was eventually burned down. Consisting of footage of the
clashes in Hay el Seloum and interviews with key organisers and victims of
the day's carnage, the powerful video places the protests in the historical
context of Lebanese state violence directed at political dissent.

HUNTERS AND BOMBERS. National Film Board.
Innu camps on traditional Innu territories in Labrador are in the flight
path of NATO military jets that fly thirty metres above the ground, training
for war. These low-flying bombers, which disrupt the Innu camps and the
animals they depend on, are the latest in a long chain of problems for the
Innu. In this program the Innu describe their life on the land and why they
are willing to risk arrest and imprisonment to protect it.

UAIL GO BACK. Produced, Directed and Edited by Angad Bhalla.
U.A.I.L. Go Back attempts to let members of a tribal community in India
explain how a proposed mineral development project backed in part by ALCAN
will impact their lives and why they have opposed it since its inception in
1993. With the support of the State government, the company advocates that
the aluminum industry will transform the lives of local residents bringing
jobs and development. Many villagers have their own ideas of what kind of
opportunities the U.A.I.L. project will bring and how it will impact the
land that currently sustains them, having visited a similar established
aluminum plant in the neighboring district. As of now the project has only
exposed villagers to the brutality of corporate globalization as they
continue to resist despite severe police repression including the murder of
three local activists.

ABOUT BAGHDAD
An independent film from InCounter Productions (Spring 2004),
(www.aboutbaghdad.com).
In July 2003 Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to
Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of
oppression and violence, and now occupation. Antoon takes us on a journey
exploring what Iraqis think and feel about the post-war situation and the
complex relationship between the US and Iraq. About Baghdad is a journey
into the hearts and minds of the hundreds of Iraqis we encountered in
Baghdad. In the simmering heat of Baghdad's summer, Iraqis, of various
ethnic and political backgrounds and orientations, speak of past horrors and
present fears. Reflections on the traumatic legacy of dictatorship,
sanctions and war also reflect the resilience and humanity of a people who
were for decades dehumanised and disappeared behind Saddam's image. From
poets to politicians, cabbies to communists, a retired senior citizen to an
American soldier at Bremmer's headquarters, About Baghdad navigates the
dire, and often misunderstood and misrepresented, straits separating, yet
involving both Iraqis and Americans.

SHORT CLIPS FROM OTHER FILMS OF FRONTLINE STRUGGLES MAY ALSO BE SHOWN.


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