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>X-Sender: dcaulfield#ns.sympatico.ca@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca (Unverified) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:04:33 -0400 >To: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca >From: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca (Dave Caulfield) >Subject: A Place Called Cinema PIRG > >Hello and a happy thanksgiving to everyone. > >Apologies for the lateness of this send out, but there seems to have been a >network snafu at the Internet wing of Sympatico. I've been unable to log on >to send this message out for some time but, opting for the >Better-Late-Than-Never stance, I'm sending her out anyways. > >This week's film, which airs Oct.10 in the McMechan Room at 8 pm, is A >PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS. What's more, I'm happy to announce that the newest >working group of NSPIRG (the Dal student-group that funds and allows >cinema PIRG to exist), Students Taking Action in Chiapas aka STAC will be >there to talk about Chiapas. Chris Arsenault, for example, was in Chiapas >this summer building a school. He'll introduce the film and speak >afterwards. > >A little about the film... >On January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement came >into force, the indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army took over >five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. Three years later, the >Zapatistas and their charismatic leaders, guerrilla poet Subcomandante >Marcos, are trapped in the Locandon jungle. Surrounded by 30,000 Mexican >troops, they struggle to maintain a nervous ceasefire. > >Despite on-going peace talks, hundreds have been killed. Director Nettie >Wild travels throughout the jungle canyons of Chiapas to capture the >elusive and fragile life of a revolution threatened by right-wing >paramilitary death squads. On camera, the death squads accuse the >Zapatistas of violence. Off camera, they threaten to kill the film crew. > >A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS provides chilling insight into President Zedillo's >"modern" Mexico. Through eight months of filming, Nettie Wild takes the >audience with her on a personal journey through fear, hope and illusion. A >PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS captures the beauty and drama of a story that is as >surreal as it is powerful. > >Admission as always is free, though a donation jar is set up awaiting >pocket change. The pocket change is used to buy more films for cinema >PIRGatory, films like, say, for example, A Place Called Chiapas. > >I hope to see you all there and spread the word. >Dave. > nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list (sust-mar). http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/lists/sust-mar -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Sponsors: Chebucto Community Net http://www.chebucto.ns.ca Sierra Club - Chebucto Group http://www.sierraclub.ca/eastern/chebucto Volunteer moderator: Paul Falvo mailto:sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca To submit a message to sust-mar, please send it to: mailto:sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca PLEASE SEND MESSAGES TO SUST-MAR IN PLAIN TEXT ONLY MESSAGES CONTAINING HTML (MIME) CANNOT BE POSTED
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