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Hablemos del Poder - Talking of Power
Produced by the Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women's Strike.
62 minutes Price: $12 
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in Spanish, or with English subtitles.

"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 Teques

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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: $12 
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD
in English, or with Spanish Subtitles.
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: $12 
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or with English subtitles.

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: $10
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD (dvd temporary out of stock)
in English, or with Spanish subtitles.

This video is a compilation of Strike events in nine countries in the first Global Women's Strike in the year 2000. Women and girls in over 70 countries have taken part in the Global Women's Strike.  It started with 8 March but quickly became a network for taking action together around the globe to stop the world and change its priorities.  The Strike points to US economic, political and military domination of the world and the $900 + billion 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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Documentary: Venezuela - a 21st century revolution
Produced by Global Women's Strike, May 2003
60 minutes Price: $10 
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or with English subtitles.

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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