The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Film Screening

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday December 07, 2006 17:25 by M Holborow - SWP contact 08798892

Film showing on foot of Chavez victory in recent elections!

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” - DIRECTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY KIM BARTLEY AND DONNACHA O'BRIAIN

Monday 11 December 8.30 Red Parrot Pub, Dorset St, Dublin

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, which has won many awards, is about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez .

No better time than now to see, or see again, this film. Chávez has just won the election again. Many of the same social movements are in action and they face the same line-up of people determined to crush them

A television crew from RTE happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11, 2002. They followed the events as they occurred. During their filming, the crew recorded images of the events and their film counters all the claims of the Chávez opposition, the private media and the US State Department which all tried to discredit Chávez and the social movements. The documentary says that the coup was the result of a conspiracy between various old guard and anti-Chávez factions within Venezuela and the United States. The film gives a very vivid account of what a massive social upheaval feels like and the actual playing out of contending political forces in this most revolutionary of continents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coup_attempt_of..._2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80019

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