THE FOURTH WORLD WAR and CONFRONTING EMPIRE

Poets (TBA) followed by audience response.

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

"A powerful radical cry from the frontlines of the war on people, This film captures the spirit of resistance: it is as beautiful and global as humanity itself."

- Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo and co-director of THE TAKE

This Tuesday, January 31st, go underground, Cinema Politica style, and explore the beating heart of empire and the global and local resistance movements growing, spreading and becoming interconnected in resistance to the neo-liberal assault on people. This fourth world war is no longer the domain of superpowers but is being fought on the ground by ordinary people courageously resisting a system which threatens to squeeze the life out of them.

From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war on terror and who insist that "another world is possible!"

While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. THE FOURTH WORLD WAR brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist.

The product of over two years of filming on the inside of movements on five continents, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is a film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history. Directed by the makers of THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE and ZAPATISTA, produced through a global network of independent media and activist groups, it is a truly global film from our global movement.
Featuring music from Manu Chao, Asian Dub Foundation, Múm, Moosaka, Cypher AD and DJ C this extraordinary film will change forever how you define "them and us".

Canada / 2004 / 75 minutes

A Big Noise Film - Narrated by Michael Franti and Suheir Hammad

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CONFRONTING EMPIRE

A retrospective piece about the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, Brazil featuring Noam Chomsky and Arandhati Roy among others. Although there was very little attention given to the WSF in North American media, 100 000 internationals gathered to share their ideas under the slogan “Another World is Possible”

Canada / 2003 / 10 min / English

Directed by: Jim Sanders
Produced by: André Clement

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