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OAXACA: Megamarch for Justice
34 min, Spanish with English subtitles DVD
Edited by Nina López Produced by the Global
Women’s Strike
Following years of government corruption
and electoral fraud, and the violent eviction of
thousands of teachers on strike who had occupied
Oaxaca’s city centre, a massive community-teacher
movement got together and formed an alternative
grassroots government. Teachers, students, housewives,
Indigenous and rural communities and other sectors of
the population have marched in their hundreds of
thousands demanding the removal of
state
governor Ulises Ruiz. Women have
played a central role, occupying TV and radio stations.
The film shows the ongoing struggle of a united people
determined to win and the repression they face:
disappearances, murders, including the murder of
Indymedia journalist Brad Will, arbitrary detentions,
torture and rape.
Price: £5
For more info or to purchase copies, contact:
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“Journey
with the revolution”
Directed by Finn Arden and Nina López. A Global Women’s
Strike production.
Spanish and English with subtitles 61 minutes DVD PAL
Price: £8; £12 solidarity price*; £30 institutions*
A journey into the heart of the Venezuelan revolution.
Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives,
teachers, gay and disability activists, who are
transforming Venezuela. Visit health clinics, soup
kitchens, land committees, education and micro-credit
programmes… The excitement of the revolution is
contagious. If you want to find out what a revolution
is, this is the film for you.
Features: President Hugo
Chávez, “the president of the poor”;
Nora
Castañeda, President of the Women’s Development Bank;
Sharmini Peries, Adviser to President
Chávez on International Relations.
* We are not funded film-makers. Solidarity and
institutions prices contribute to towards making the
films and the distribution of free DVDs to Venezuelan
grassroots organizers. |
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Hablemos del Poder /Talking of
Power
Produced by the Global
Women's Strike, 2005.
62 minutes Price:
£7
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or
DVD,
in Spanish, or with English
subtitles.
Sex, race and class in revolutionary
Venezuela. From the hills of Caracas to the banks of the
Orinoco, the grassroots tell how they are changing our
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"Talking
of Power is a solid and exciting documentary that offers a glimpse
of new ways of re-making the world and women's role at the heart of
it." Rod
Stoneman, director of the
prestigious
Huston
School of Film and Digital Media, National University of
Ireland
“The people
from the 'barrio' built the city twice: during the day we built the
houses of the well-off; at night and at weekends, with solidarity,
we built our own homes, our 'barrio'.” Andrés Antillano, Urban Land Committee, La
Vega
“Neoliberalism
increases women’s workload. Who suffers most, who works most when
health services are privatised? Women, mothers… The highest participation in the Missions:
women . . . Social
security for housewives is a constitutional mandate.”
President Hugo Chávez
Our president is discriminated
against because he is Black and because he is the president of the
poor. We
never counted for anything, only for work. Now things have changed
for us the poor.” Epifania Mayora, Tarmas
“Bolivarian
ideology: grassroots self-management…The majority in the land
committees are women”. Juanita Romero, Urban Land Committee
“Power
is about doing and achieving for the benefit of all, of the
collective. No one can speak for us, we must all speak for
ourselves.” Angélica Álvarez, Women’s
Development Bank
“Women's
organizations have greater clarity. With men there is the problem of
power . . . Our revolution depends on women, no question.” Gastón Murat, Bolivarian Workers Power, Los
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REFUSING TO KILL
Refuseniks from around the
world speak out against murder, rape & other
torture
Produced by Payday,
a network of men working with the Global Women’s
Strike
payday@paydaynet.org
www.refusingtokill.net Tel: 020 7209
4751
45 minutes
Price: £7
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or
DVD,
in English, or with Spanish
Subtitles. |
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James
Fairweather, WWII veteran from Jamaica posted in Germany in
1946
“I
saw the devastation that war caused and that women and
children are the main victims. If we ‘fraternized
with the enemy’ we risked military prison, but we gave them
food anyway.”
Stephen
Funk, US marine, six months in jail for refusing to fight in
Iraq
“I am not an advocate for gay inclusion in the military
because I do not support military
action.”
Shimri
Tzameret, Israeli refusenik, won his right not to serve after
two years in jail
”Already for years I know that I am not going to join the
army. I know it with as much certainty as I know that I will
never kick a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, never rape
a woman, and when I will have a child - never abandon
it.”
Harriet,
refugee, escapee from the Ugandan army
“I
joined the army because it would give me the means to look
after my children . . . but there was bullying, sexual
harassment, rape and torture”.
Rev.
Dorothy Mackey, STAAMP (Survivors Taking Action Against
Military Personnel)
“In my first five years in the US army I was raped three
times, twice by military doctors during Ob-Gyn
appointments.”
Alex
Izett, Gulf War Syndrome survivor “I started my 40-day
hunger strike to get a public inquiry in the UK – for
recognition that veterans had been poisoned by their own
country.”
Camilo Mejia, US Staff Sergeant, spent
nine months in jail after refusing to return to Iraq
“I'd rather go to prison for desertion than kill a child by
mistake. Prison ends, but you never get over killing a kid.”
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The Bolivarian Revolution:
ENTER THE OIL
WORKERS
Produced by
the Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women's
Strike, July 2004
34 minutes
Price: £5
Available as
VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or with
English subtitles. |
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Venezuela is the
world’s 5th largest oil exporter, yet 80% of
its population lives in poverty. In 1998 President Hugo
Chávez was elected to use the oil revenue to tackle
poverty. In April 2002 a coup against him was defeated
by the millions who took to the streets. A few months
later the élite and the CIA paralyzed Venezuela’s oil
company PDVSA to bring Chávez down. Oil workers took
over and worked round the clock to recover
production.
In this documentary José Bodas, Luís
Felix Marín, Jesús Montilla and Tania
Suárez tell how they saved
PDVSA and how they are organizing to “put the oil
industry at the service of huma
nity”.
“At the beginning
we couldn’t stop the sabotage, we were just oil workers.
Now we have come together with the armed forces and the
communities.”
“The wives of our workmates were hand-in-hand
with their husbands. They brought them food, gave all
their backing, so that those workers could save the
industry.”
“The Guide
Committee was born a year ago – a tool for the workers
to participate in building the management that is yet to
be built.”
“This
revolution is being fought, won or lost in PDVSA. We
believe in working class management for PDVSA. It is the
only way, there is no other.”
“We say no more blood for oil. We must use
this energy not to destroy the planet, but so that all
of us can live.”
“We know the difference between the
people of the US and those who govern them. The US
people are also victims of the multinationals, and they
have a history of struggle.”
“It’s as if the
industrial working class had been asleep … The women
came out first and the military. Then the workers came,
those who were not unionized – the grassroots – and
placed themselves on the front line ... From that moment
industrial workers in Venezuela became something
entirely different.” Nora Castañeda, President, Women’s
Development Bank
Read review of this film here
from:Green Left Weekly, December 8,
2004 |
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Exclusive footage of the first ever Global
Women's Strike
30 minutes
Price: £6
Available as VHS Video
(PAL or NTSC),
or DVD
(DVD out of stock),
in English, or with Spanish
subtitles. |
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Compilation
of Strike events in nine countries. Women and
girls in over 70 countries have taken part in the
Global Women's Strike which started on 8 March
2000. It quickly became a network for taking
action together to stop the world and change its
priorities. The Strike points to US
economic, political and military domination of the
world and the $1 trillion spent on the military
each year, more than half by the US alone.
One tenth of the global military budget would get
rid of the world's most extreme poverty. Why
is there money to pipe oil but not to pipe
water? Many men also support the Strike's
central demand: "Payment for all caring work -- in
wages, pensions, land & other resources.
What is more valuable than raising children and
caring for others?"
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the website of the Global Women's
Strike |
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Documentary: Venezuela - a
21st century revolution
Produced by Global Women's Strike,
May 2003
60 minutes Price:
£5
Available
as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish,
or with English
subtitles. |
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| Documentary made in April 2003
with participants in the Venezuelan revolution:
women and men from newly formed worker's
co-operatives, Nora Castañeda (president of the
Women's Development Bank), trade-union president
of the oil industry, President Chavez and others.
This documentary shows what the Venezuelan
revolution is winning for all of us, what we can
do for it and what it can do for
us.
In
England and the US, viewers from Venezuela and
elsewhere, have acclaimed
it:
“Grassroots people are full of
optimism and aware of their own
power.”
“I have never seen such confident
women.”
“I cried with
joy.”
Read a review of this video
here
from
Green
Left Weekly, December 15,
2004
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