[Imc-dunedin] Dunedin Indymedia screening - "Plan Columbia" Wednesday 18 August 6.30pm

[Peter Porteous]

Just a reminder.....

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Dunedin Indymedia screening - "Plan Columbia", plus "Hikoi" and "Buy 
Media"

Arc Cafe, High St.
koha admission

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More information below:


Plan Columbia: Cashing-in on the Drug-War Failure
 From the award winning producer of "Hidden War of Desert Strom", Gerard 
Ungeman. 58 mins.
http://www.peacenowar.net/Colombia/film.htm

  With most of the US military aid under the so-called "Plan Colombia" 
delivered, Pres. Pastrana unilaterally withdraws from the peace process 
engaged with the FARC guerilla (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) 
and steps up violence in this 50 year-quasi-civil war. But what is left 
of the initial anti-narcotics purpose of the US "Plan Colombia"? After 
20 years of drug-wars in the Andes resulting in a two fold increase of 
cocaine import in the US in the last ten years alone, what is to be 
expected from a plan focusing primarily on spraying coca-fields in 
rebel-held parts of the country when coca is grown all over Colombia ? 
Is the US Government even concerned still with fighting drugs when the 
post 9-11 rhetoric made it easy for the State Dep. to now single out 
the leftist FARC as the enemy # 1 in Colombia on the ground that they 
use what might be viewed as "terrorist tactics" ?

  Many interviews including Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Colombian 
Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (now a hostage of the FARC), 
US MCs Paul Wellstone and John Conyers, US Gov. officials, a WWF 
scientist, many different Colombians from all walks of life, including 
guerilla-leaders,will shed light on the complex issues of 
drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Colombia. The doc. also looks at 
the impact and result of the current chemical-spraying campaign carried 
out by US Defense-contractor Dyncorps, it will probe the US plan in 
search for alternate motives to a drug-war that the US Gov. has seemed 
so keen on losing over the past 30 years.

Hikoi
Matthew Donaldson (3mins)  - Aotearoa.
A short documentary about the April 2004 hikoi to Wellington to protest 
against the government's Seabed and Foreshore legislation. Featuring 
the Auckland Harbour bridge crossing.

Buy Media
Darcy Gladwin (1min)  - Aotearoa.
A one minute programme parodying the mainstream media.



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