[Iyf-ct] Beyond Elections at the Labia

[Andreas Spath]

Here are the details about the While You Were Sleeping screening of
Beyond Elections. If anyone can't afford the R20 ticket price, let me
know - I should be able to organise some comps...



Andreas









Documentary
about participatory democracy to be shown in Cape Town

Beyond
Elections, an empowering documentary about
concrete examples of participatory democracy in action
will be shown at the Labia on Orange cinema in Cape Town on Sunday 19 July at 6.15pm, on Monday 20 July at 8:30pm and on Tuesday 21 July at 8:30pm.

After all the hype surrounding
this year’s elections it’s back to politics as usual in South Africa.
Politicians pontificate and make far reaching decisions while the rest of us
are left moaning and complaining over our braai fires and shebeen tables. But
is that really all there is to politics and democracy? Beyond Elections takes us on a journey across the Americas in an attempt to
answer this important question.





"Beyond
Elections proves that
democracy can and should be more than casting a ballot every four years."
- Ben
Dangl




Some 120 countries around the
world now have at least the minimum trappings of democracy - the freedom to
vote for all citizens. But for many, this is just the beginning not the end.
Following decades of US-backed dictatorships, civil wars and devastating
structural adjustment policies in the South, and corporate control, electoral
corruption and fraud in the North, representative politics is in crisis.
Citizens are now choosing to redefine democracy on their own terms: local,
direct, and participatory.





Beyond
Elections explores
new and exciting experiences with local governance, participatory budgeting and
decision making, self-organised community assemblies, cooperative workplaces
and other methods in which authority and power are being shifted from ruling
elites to ordinary citizens.





The film features engaging
interviews with Eduardo Galeano, Amy Goodman and Ward Churchill, as well as
community members, elected representatives, academics, and activists from
Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, the United States and more.





Beyond
Elections offers hope and inspiration to everyone who is frustrated with
“politics as usual”.





The
screenings will be followed by a facilitated audience discussion. Tickets cost R20 and can be reserved by
calling The Labia at (021) 424 5927. Reserving tickets is strongly recommended
to avoid disappointment.





This event is presented by The Labia and While You Were Sleeping, a Cape
Town-based non-profit film collective committed to bringing progressive,
non-mainstream documentaries with important social and environmental messages
to South African audiences.


 

Contacts:

The Labia:

021 424 5927

 

While
You Were Sleeping:

Andreas Späth

084 772 1056

Andreas_Spath at yahoo.com

www.whileyouweresleeping.wordpress.com




      
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