[van-announce] Don't forget! APC Movie Night Sunday, Nov 30: Eastside Showdown

[jessica at resist.ca]

Doesn't curling up with a few of your closest friends for a night of films
sound yummy these days?

well, how about joining the Anti-Poverty Committee and friends for:

EAST SIDE SHOWDOWN & Other shorts (see below for movie info)
                 Sunday, November 30
                 @ Placebo -- 1183 Odlum Drive (3 bl. east of Grandview
Pk.)                  doors@ 8.30 pm, movie@ 9pm
           ******super comfy couches and lots of them! at this venue*****
*****and they show lots of movies, wed-sat nights.
               go to www.placebo1183.ca for movie listings!!*****

***apc t-shirts and pivot calendars for sale****

cost: $5 (no one turned away for lack of $$)

---stay tuned for the 3rd installment of the APC movie night (Dec. 11 at
Video In, still working out the details, they're coming soon!)

Movie Info:


LIFE AND DEBT  80 min, 2001

Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun.  A prime example of the complexities
of economic globalization on the world's developing countries.  Using
conventional and non-conventional documentary techniques, this searing
film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture
and industry in "Third World" contires while substituting sweat-shops and
cheap imports.  With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid,
adaptd from her non-fiction book "A Small Place", LIFE AND DEBT is an
unapologetic look at the "new world order", from the point of view of
Jamaican owrkers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the
reality of globalization from the ground up.


EAST SIDE SHOWDOWN  46 min, 1999  (plus other shorts)

Middle-class homeowners, angry radical, desperate drug addicts and pepople
simply looking for a place to lay thier head: all are players isn a bitter
struggle in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood.  Filmmaker Robin documents a
turbulent year in the district of Dundas and Sherbourne, tracing the
complex  tensions a remarkable cast of real-life characters.  By focusing
on one Toronto neighourhood, East Side Showdaon reflects on affecting
towns across the country, as our social safety net is eroded and the gap
between rich and poor grows deeper.