Apropos of this week's thread on governance:
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From: Don Begley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 8, 2008 6:20:25 PM MDT
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Subject: sfx News: Documentary Screening, Friday, October 10 at 7:00 pm
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Frito Friday, Elections & Democracy:
A Special Screening of Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the
Americas
Frito Friday at 6:30 · Screening begins at 7:00 pm
Q and A session with director Michael Fox follows
Featuring interviews with: Eduardo Galeano, Amy Goodman, Emir Sader,
Martha Harnecker, Ward Churchill, and Leonardo Avritzer as well as
cooperative and community members, elected representatives, academics,
and activists from Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, United
States, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, and more.
Beyond Elections:
Redefining Democracy in the Americas
(October 10, 6:30 pm)
With less than a month away from one of the most important elections
in U.S. history, everyone is talking about elections but few people
are talking about democracy. Santa Fe Complex is proud to host a
screening of Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas, a
new independent documentary film that takes us across the Americas -
from Venezuela's Communal Councils, to Brazil's Participatory
Budgeting, from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements,
recuperated factories and cooperatives - to search for the answer to
one of the most fundamental questions of our time: What is democracy?
Produced and directed by Michael Fox & Silvia Leindecker, and
distributed by PM Press, the film asks, "What is democracy?" Across
the world, 120 countries now have at least the minimum trappings of
democracy - the freedom to vote for all citizens - but the filmmakers
argue this is just the beginning not the end. They believe
representative politics in the Americas is in crisis following decades
of US-backed dictatorships, civil wars and devastating structural
adjustment policies in South America, and corporate control, electoral
corruption, and fraud in the North.
Fox says, "Citizens are now choosing to redefine democracy under their
own terms: local, direct, and participatory." He offers examples
including Brazilian Worker's Party, which altered the concept of local
government in 1989 with participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre,
allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city
funds. Ten years later, Fox says, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was
swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to
the Venezuelan people, who have now formed tens of thousands of self-
organized communal councils across that country. And, he points to the
Southern Cone of South America - Argentina, Chile and Uruguay - where
cooperative and recuperated factory numbers have grown. "Across the
Americas social movements and constitutional assemblies are taking
authority away from the ruling elites and putting power into the hands
of their members and citizens," Fox concludes.
The program starts at 7:00 at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria St.
Parking is in the rear of the building via Romero Street. For more
information, call Santa Fe Complex at 505/216.7562.
About Sílvia Leindecker:
Sílvia Leindecker is a Brazilian documentary film maker, a philosopher
and independent photographer who has shot for the Spanish news agency
EFE, Germany's Politik magazine, and numerous independent projects,
advertisement and film productions.
About Michael Fox:
Michael Fox is a freelance journalist, translator, reporter and
documentary film maker based in South America. He is a former staff
reporter for Venezuelanlaysis, a radio correspondent for Free Speech
Radio News, and his articles have been published with Yes Magazine,
Earth Island Journal, NACLA and The Nation online.
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the project space at 624
Agua Fria and the work space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going sfComplex projects. The project
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer Internet
access, working facilities, a coffee lounge and work carrels for
laptop users.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location. For more information, call Don Begley at
505/216.7562.
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