From my e-mail:
[For those outside Washington interested in how they can organize a Global Justice Film Festival in their own communities, please contact Elsa Gebreyseus at organizer@50years.org]
The Washington, DC 50 Years Is Enough Film Festival begins Saturday afternoon!
[See the full schedule in extended entry]
50 Years Is Enough Network
2004 Global Justice Film Festival
March 13th to April 18th
This year marks the 60th year of the founding of the World Bank and IMF, and given the devastating impact of the policies, programs and projects of these institutions over these six decades, 2004 is a crucial year in the struggle for global justice. Along with partner organizations and activists, the 50 Years Is Enough Network presents a collection of eleven films that expose the pressing social, economic and environmental issues that have mobilized thousands of people around the world to call for a profound transformation of these institutions. (see http://www.50years.org/cms/action/apr2004/desc )
Saturday March 13th, 2004 2:00 -4:30pm
Drowned Out: We Can’t wash Them Away
Spanner Films Ltd., 2003
Chronicles the fight against the Narmada dam which threatens to submerge the Jalsindi village in central India.
Venue: Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd, NW Metro: Columbia Heights Discussant: Rahul Vaswani, Rural Community Assistance Program
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Thursday, March 18th, 2004 7:00 -8:30pm
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the IMF
Elizabeth Canner & Ashley Eames, 1996/1999
Account of how Nicaragua is affected by the threat of structural adjustment and the debt crisis.
Venue: All Souls Church (Unitarian), 1500 Harvard St. NW Metro: Columbia Heights
Discussant: Rita Clark, Nicaragua-U.S. Friendship Office
Two Trevors Go To Washington
Seipone Productions 2000
The April 2000 IMF/WB meetings seen through the eyes of two South Africans: a finance minister and a Soweto activist.
Venue: All Souls Church: Unitarian, 1500 Harvard St.
NW Metro: Columbia Heights
Discussant: Soren Ambrose, 50 Years is Enough Network
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Thursday March 25th, 2004 7:00 – 9:00pm
Working Women of the World
Marie France Collard 2000
Follows the relocation of the garment industry focusing on Levi Strauss & Co.
Venue: IPS, 733 15th Street NW Metro: Metro Center /McPherson Sq
Discussant: Analia Penchaszadeh, Jobs with Justice
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Saturday March 27th, 2004 2:00 -4:30pm
Breaking the Bank
Coalition of independent media groups, 2000 Independent account of the April 2000 protests and examines the issues behind the protests.
Date: Saturday March 27th, 2004
Venue: Josephine Butler Parks Center Metro: Columbia Heights
Speaker: Neil Watkins, Jubilee USA Network
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Thursday, April 1st, 2004 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Life and Debt
Stephanie Black, 2001
Exposes the devastating effects of free trade and debt on the lives of Jamaicans.
Venue: IPS, 733 15th Street NW Metro: Metro Center/McPherson Sq
Discussant: Marie Clarke, Jubilee USA Network and Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years is Enough Network
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004 2:00 – 4:30pm
Choropampa: The Price of Gold
Ernesto Cabellos & Stephanie Boyd 2002
Follows the valiant struggle for health care and justice after a devastating mercury spill at the Yanacocha gold mine in the Peruvian Andes.
Venue: Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd, NW Metro:
Columbia Heights Discussant: Radhika Sarin, Earthworks
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Patient Abuse Jack Lewis 2001
Chronicles the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa and their struggle against international drug companies.
Venue: IPS, 733 15th Street NW Metro: Metro Center/McPherson Sq
Discussant: Salih Booker, Africa Action
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Saturday April 10th, 2004 2:00 – 4:30pm
Profits of Doom
BBC, 2001
In depth analysis of the structural adjustment programs of World Bank and IMF in Ghana.
Venue: Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd, NW Metro:Columbia Heights Discussant: TBA
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Thursday, April 15th, 2004 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Fisheries: Beyond the Crisis CBC, 1998
Follows two fishing communities one in Canada, one in India and explores the issues behind the decline of once vibrant fishing communities.
Venue: IPS, 733 15th Street NW Metro: Metro Center /McPherson Sq
Discussant: TBA
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Sunday April 18th, 2004 2:00 – 4:00 pm
To Be a Woman
Visafric Productions, 1992
Examines the issues of debt, structural adjustment and development through the stories of women in Uganda, Zambia and Ghana.
Venue: Sisterspace & Books, 1515 U Street, N.W. Metro: U Street/Cardozo
Discussant: Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network
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For more in depth information on the films and speakers, please visit www.50years.org
We would like to thank all the individuals and organizations that have contributed to the 2004 Global Justice Film Festival and continue to support the work of the 50 Years Is Enough Network.
*All films are free to the public*
50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
3628 12th St., NE
Washington, DC 20017
Tel: 202-IMF-BANK (463-2265)
Fax: 202-636-4238
Email: organizer@50years.org
web: www.50years.org
Also from my e-mail:
WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION?
The Comprehensive Guide to the WTO
Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall, Public Citizen
Published by The New Press, Distributed by Norton
“A crucial guide – devastating and highly readable. Wallach and Woodall are warriors for democracy against its most powerful opponents.”
– Naomi Klein
Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways – often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening exposé documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive and profoundly undemocratic World Trade Organization.
Here is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which WTO terms have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the WTO’s nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts.
And, trade is the least of it: this book shows how the WTO chills government actions to fight sweatshops, make life-saving drugs available, and protect endangered species- and even limits our elected governments’ ability to maintain policies on everything from meat inspection to media concentration.
Whose Trade Organization? Offers first steps toward a democratic, accountable alternative. It reminds us that change is not only necessary- it’s possible.
Whose Trade Organization:
* “You must read this book to get past the fraudulent clichés promoted by liberals and conservatives alike.”
– John R. MacArthur, publisher, Harper’s Magazine and author of The Selling of “Free Trade”
* “Lori Wallach is the brave, brilliant advocate who has helped millions around the world to see through the lies and myths of corporate-led globalization. This book is her ultimate power tool for global justice. Read it, citizens, and find yourselves empowered to act.”
– William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism
* “If you think trade, globalization, and the WTO aren’t your business or are boring, read this clear, compelling, and downright scary account.”
– Congressman Jesse L. Jackson
* “Not just a powerful denunciation of the organization’s system of corporate-managed trade. It is an essential handbook for activists who want to challenge that system in the name of liberty, equality, and democracy.”
– John Nichols
TO ORDER: Whose Trade Organization? Visit www.tradewatch.org