The Globalisation Tapes
films_at_forest | 29.01.2003 21:51
The Globalisation Tapes will be presented by one of the filmmaker in co-operation with IMC Scotland, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) and the Forest Cafe, on the 8th of February in Edinburgh, Scotland, 8pm at The Forest, Art and Event Space, 9 Westport, off Grassmarket. The Globalisation tapes describes workers struggle in Indonesia against the effects of globalisation.
The Globalisation Tapes
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The Globalisation Tapes
71 minutes, 2002
a collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra (Indonesia), the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF), and Vision Machine Film Project.
The Globalisation Tapes is a film made by workers for workers. The story isn't told by experts, but by union members from palm oil plantations in Indonesia. Their experience is complemented by workers from both Colombia and Holland. The film powerfully documents their exploration of history, globalisation, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
Using their own forbidden history as a case study, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalisation from its roots in colonialism to the present. Through chilling first-hand accounts, The Globalisation Tapes exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the “ global economy ”, and explores the relationships between trade, third-world debt, and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The film explains how these institutions shape and enforcing the corporate world order.
The film illustrates the kind of training that is needed if unions are to build an international movement to fight corporate globalisation from the grassroots. The Globalisation Tapes is a tool for developing this struggle, not just from the top, but from the rank and file. And as a document of workers grappling with -- and documenting -- the impacts of globalisation on their own community, workplace, and nation, The Globalisation Tapes is among the most powerful indictments of unfettered corporate power ever produced.
“ If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participa tory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. ”"
-- Su Karman, narrator of The Globalisation Tapes and President of Perbbuni, the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra.
The film will be presented by one of the filmmakers.
This event is organised by a cooperation between the Forest Gallery, Art and Event Space, Indymedia Scotland, and the Edinburgh Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Film show:
The Globalisation Tapes
71 minutes 8 pm at Saturday, 8th of February, 2003
The Forest
9 Westport (off Grassmarket) Edinburgh
The Globalisation Tapes
71 minutes, 2002
a collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra (Indonesia), the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF), and Vision Machine Film Project.
The Globalisation Tapes is a film made by workers for workers. The story isn't told by experts, but by union members from palm oil plantations in Indonesia. Their experience is complemented by workers from both Colombia and Holland. The film powerfully documents their exploration of history, globalisation, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
Using their own forbidden history as a case study, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalisation from its roots in colonialism to the present. Through chilling first-hand accounts, The Globalisation Tapes exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the “ global economy ”, and explores the relationships between trade, third-world debt, and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The film explains how these institutions shape and enforcing the corporate world order.
The film illustrates the kind of training that is needed if unions are to build an international movement to fight corporate globalisation from the grassroots. The Globalisation Tapes is a tool for developing this struggle, not just from the top, but from the rank and file. And as a document of workers grappling with -- and documenting -- the impacts of globalisation on their own community, workplace, and nation, The Globalisation Tapes is among the most powerful indictments of unfettered corporate power ever produced.
“ If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participa tory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. ”"
-- Su Karman, narrator of The Globalisation Tapes and President of Perbbuni, the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra.
The film will be presented by one of the filmmakers.
This event is organised by a cooperation between the Forest Gallery, Art and Event Space, Indymedia Scotland, and the Edinburgh Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Film show:
The Globalisation Tapes
71 minutes 8 pm at Saturday, 8th of February, 2003
The Forest
9 Westport (off Grassmarket) Edinburgh
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