[imc-wellington] G8 film show Friday 4 July

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

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Wellington Indymedia collective presents:

Berlusconi's Mousetrap (abridged) - protests at the July 2001 G8 meeting in
Genoa, Italy
and
Footage from protests at the G8 meeting of June 2007 in Heiligendamm,
Germany 

followed by a brief talk and Q&A from Aotearoa activists who took part in
the protests.

Venue: 128 Abel Smith Street Community House, Te Aro
Date: Friday 4 July
Time: 7 pm
gold coin entry

Further details:

Berlusconi's Mousetrap (Genoa 2001) 

(Film/Video, Indymedia Ireland, August 2002)

The Protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest
and most significant protests in Western Europe since the poll tax riots in
the UK. Italian prime minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his
new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal media/police preemptive
strike on the anti-capitalist movement’s biggest first-world mobilisation
to date.  

When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school
full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred
to as the 'Chilean Night'. This film traces the events of the three days of
protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a setup? If Seattle
was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

This feature-length film is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa
protests against the G8 shot by ten members of IMC Ireland, material from
the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This
compelling footage combined with on-the-spot interviews and reenacted
voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active
during the protests provides an in-depth blow-by-blow retelling of the
story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.