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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
Available as VHS Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or
with English 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
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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
“ 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
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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. |
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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: $12
Available as VHS
Video (PAL or NTSC), or DVD,
in Spanish, or with English
subtitles. |
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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
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. |
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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
Please note: DVD
out of stock |
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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. |
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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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