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Start: 05:00
End: 08:00
People are often unaware of just how prevalent persuasive techniques are in the media, and that they are exposed to persuasion on a daily basis in many different forms. As an introduction to the genre of persuasion, we will examine the complex ways in which the marketing industry targets young adults with messages of consumption. This provocative documentary style is an intriguing and eye opening introduction to the subject of media propaganda. Start: 17:00
End: 18:00
Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever. Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. In the ongoing history of attempts by multi-national corporations to exploit Latin America's natural resources, TAMBOGRANDE is a rare success story, on demonstrating how ordinary people can defeat government and corporate collusion, and one that has already become an inspiration to other popular political movements across the continent. | ||
