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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: 12€;
16€
solidarity price*; 40€ institutions* |
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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 Bolivarian
Circle of the Global Women's Strike.
62 minutes Price: 10€
Available as VHS Video (PAL
or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or with English or Italian
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
world. |
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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
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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:
10€
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or
DVD
in English, or with Spanish or Italian
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: €9
Available in
Spanish, or with English subtitles, VHS PAL or
NTSC
Also available as a DVD (same price), contact
booksvideos@crossroadswomen.net |
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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 a 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 PAL or NTSC Also
available with Spanish subtitles Price: €9
Also available as a DVD
(temporary out of stock)
contact booksvideos@crossroadswomen.net |
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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?"
Click to go 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:
15€
Available
in Spanish, or with English subtitles VHS PAL or
NTSC
Also available as a DVD (same price),
contact booksvideos@crossroadswomen.net |
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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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