50 Years Is Enough Network; Center for Economic Justice;
DC Labor FilmFest; DC Metro Labor Council; Essential Action;
Jobs with Justice; Jubilee USA Network; present . . .
2002 Global Justice Film Festival
September 5-26, 2002
A collection of 15 films documenting the horrors of global
poverty and development, discussions led activists and campaigners
to follow:
Thursday, Sept. 5 - 5:30 p.m.
The Spectre of Hope - with Sebastio Salgado & John
Berger
directed by Paul Carlin
[overview of globalization's impacts in over 40 countries]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANTS: Joanne Carter, RESULTS &
Irungu Houghton, ActionAid USA
VENUE: Communication Workers of America /
Jobs with Justice 501 3rd Street, N.W. (Metro: Judiciary Square)
Friday, Sept. 6 - 6:30 p.m.
To Be A Woman
produced by Omega Bula
[women surviving under structural adjustment in Ghana, Zambia,
and Uganda]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network
VENUE: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW (Metro:
Columbia Heights)
Saturday, Sept. 7 - 3:00 p.m.
It's My Life
[story of South African AIDS activist Zackie Ashmat,
who has HIV but refuses anti-retrovirals until they are available
to all]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Rob Weissman, Essential Action
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Sunday, Sept. 8 - 3:00 p.m.
a) Global Village or Global Pillage?
[overview of structures of globalization]
b) From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras
[laid-off Tennessee factory workers visit Mexican communities
where factories moved to]
c) Two Trevors Go To Washington
[global justice activist Trevor Ngwane and finance minister
Trevor Manuel, both from South Africa, experience the A16 protests
in DC, April 2000]
more detailed descriptions
DISCUSSANTS: Fred Azcarate, Jobs With Justice & Soren
Ambrose, New Voices on Globalization
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Monday, Sept 9 - 6:30 p.m.
Globalization and Africa: Which Side Are We On?
[events & interviews at World Conference Against
Racism, held in South Africa in 2001]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Tuesday, Sept. 10 - 6:30 p.m.
a) Another World Is Possible
Impressions of the 2002 World Social Forum - 24 Minutes
b) Another World is Possible
North American Voices at the World Social
Forum - 22 Minutes
more detailed
descriptions
DISCUSSANTS: Analia Penchaszadeh, Jobs with Justice
VENUE: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW (Metro:
Columbia Heights)
Wednesday, Sept. 18 - 6:30 p.m.
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and IMF
[Nicaragua's experience of IMF/World Bank policies]
SOA: Guns and Greed
[campaign to close the School of the Americas]
more detailed descriptions
DISCUSSANTS: Kathy Hoyt, Nicaragua Network & Matt Smucker,
SOA Watch
VENUE: Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th Street NW
(Metro: U Street/Cardozo or Columbia Heights)
Thursday, Sept. 19 - 6:30 p.m.
The New Rulers of the World
by John Pilger
[corporations & sweatshops in Indonesia]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Maria Roeper, Service Employees International
Union
VENUE: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW (Metro:
Columbia Heights)
Friday, Sept. 20 - 6:30 p.m.
T-Shirt Travels
by Samantha Bloemen
[the fate of clothing donations we make]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANTS: Mahama Bawa, Kobos African Clothiers
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Saturday, Sept. 21 - 3:00 p.m.
Banking on Life and Debt
narrated by Martin Sheen
At the River I Stand
[the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike of 1968, documents Martin
Luther King Jr's last days who was assassinated while in Memphis
supporting the struggle]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT for "Banking on Life and Debt": Judy
Coode, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
DISCUSSANT for "At the River I Stand": Jobs with
Justice Representative
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Sunday, Sept. 22 - 3:00 p.m.
Profits of Doom
by John Kampfner (BBC)
[structural adjustment and water privatization in Ghana]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANTS: Sara Grusky, International Water Working Group
& Rob Weissman, Essential Action
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Monday, Sept. 23 - 6:30 p.m.
Life and Debt
by Stephanie Black
[structural adjustment in Jamaica]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANTS: Marie Clarke-Brill, Jubilee USA Network &
Bill Fletcher, TransAfrica
VENUE: Communication Workers of America / Jobs with Justice
501 3rd Street, N.W. (Metro: Judiciary Square)
Tuesday, Sept. 24 - 6:30 p.m.
Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy
[WTO and NAFTA rules favoring corporations]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANTS: Carrie Biggs-Adams, Communication Workers of
America & Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
VENUE: Casa Del Pueblo United Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia
Road NW (Metro: Columbia Heights)
Wednesday, Sept. 25 - 3:00 p.m.
PROFIT and Nothing But!
by Raoul Peck
[economic globalization in Haiti]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Camille Chalmers, Ex. Dir. of PAPDA (Platform
Ayisen pou Pledwaye yon Devlopman Altenatif)
VENUE: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 New York
Avenue, NW (Metro: Metro Center or McPherson Square)
Thursday, Sept. 26 - 12:30 p.m.
The Water is Ours, Damn It!
by Sheila Franklin
[the people's rebellion against water privatization in Cochabamba,
Bolivia]
more detailed description
DISCUSSANT: Oscar Olivera, Executive Secretary of the Cochabamba
Federation of Factory Workers and spokesperson for the Coalition
in Defense of Water and Life, known in Bolivia as La Coordinadora.
VENUE: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW (Metro:
Columbia Heights)
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