[CIMC-work] Flyer/handbill for July 9/10 "Miami Model/Venezuela Bolivariana screenings

[ChrisGeovanis at aol.com]

CIMCistas: below is the email I sent out re the screenings moments ago. The 
original post bounced, perhaps because there was a pdf file attached. I'll 
forward same to people individually -- folks should email me for a copy if they 
like --  and have posted it to our newswire 
(http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/43059/index.php). I'll clean up newswire copy tomorrow and make it 
look pretty. Thomas, could you make flyers available at Thursday's video 
training? Thanks.

Hi, Brent, Christie, Patrick, Brandon, Katrina, CIMCistas, et al. I'm 
attaching a flyer for the July 9/10/11 film screenings/workshop for the Miami Model 
and Venezuela Bolivariana as a pdf file. I've also included below slightly 
modified copy that people can send out by email. Please repost like crazy! I'll 
get html up on the Chicago Indymedia website Wednesday, and w/center panel same 
on our calendar razerwire. The press release to local outlets' calendar 
sections and cultural writers went out last Friday. Sorry about the delay. 

CIMC video people: could you hand out the flyer at this Thursday's upcoming 
video training? I think a lot of our collective members and contributors would 
get a lot out of the Sunday, July 11 training. Brandon has been active with 
Indymedia for a long time, as well as progressive media projects that include 
Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now!, et al, and Jay Cookson was one of the original 
conveners of CounterMedia, the precursor to Indymedia, as well as a contributor 
to numerous Indymedia documentary projects and other progressive video efforts. 
Naturally, anyone else who is interested -- or planning on shooting protests 
locally or during the conventions -- should also think about attending.

Email copy follows.

Chris Geovanis

Join Chicago Indymedia and our partners for the Midwest premier of two 
powerful new documentaries on the Miami Model and the Bolivarian people’s movement –
 plus shorts from across the globe – and a workshop on documenting repression 
and resistance with film and video. 

8 PM • Friday • July 9
The Miami Model – The Miami FTAA Protests: Repression, Resistance And Future 
Strategies. Produced by FTAA Indymedia. 80 minutes. 
@ Chicago Filmmakers • 5243 N. Clark St.

Q&A with filmmaker to follow screening.

Saturday • July 10
8 PM: The Miami Model
10 PM: Venezuela Bolivariana: Venezuela’s Grassroots Bolivarian People’s 
Movement On the Ground and Abroad. Produced by Calle y Media Collective. 76 
minutes
Midnight: Progressive Voices: Video shorts from around the world.
@ Buddy Gallery • 1542 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl.

Q&A with filmmakers from The Miami Model and Venezuela Bolilvariana will 
follow screenings. 

1-4 PM • Sunday • July 11
Shooting With Purpose: Digital Witnessing to Safeguard Human Rights. A 
Workshop for DNC/RNC/Chicago Video Activists. 
@ Buddy Gallery • 1542 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl.

This hands-on workshop will be hosted by independent filmmakers Brandon 
Jourdon and Jay Cookson, and focus on sharing documentary video skills and concrete 
strategies for citizen enforcement of police accountability during the 
upcoming DNC/RNC events.

$10 recommended donation for  screenings. 
No-one will be turned away. 

Screenings cosponsored by Chicago Indymedia, Chicago Media Action, Chicago 
Filmmakers, Buddy Gallery, the Third Coast Press, and SPAC – the Self Publishers 
Events Council. 

For more info, call 312-446-4939, email hammerhard at aol.com, or visit our 
website at chicago.indymedia.org.

The Miami Model was pioneered as a law enforcement strategy in Chicago in 
1996, refined against peaceful protesters in cities from Washington DC and 
Seattle to Genoa and Cancun, and deployed in all of its repressive ferocity against 
peaceful protesters during last November’s anti-FTAA protests in Miami. It’s 
coming to New York and Boston for this summer’s Democratic and Republican 
National Conventions – and it’s being deployed with increasing regularity right 
here in Chicago. The Miami Model is the public face of a broad government 
strategy to stifle dissent, crush public resistance to undemocratic policies, and 
shut down opposition to state sponsored repression. 

Both resistance and strategies to stop this rush to totalitarianism are 
growing, here in the United States and in dynamic populist movements in the global 
south, from Chiapas to Venezuela. 

Arm yourself with knowledge and brass tacks strategies for protest, witness – 
and resistance. Join Chicago Indymedia and our partners for the Midwest 
premier of two powerful new documentaries on the Miami Model and the Bolivarian 
people’s movement – plus shorts from across the globe – and a workshop on 
documenting repression and resistance with film and video.

About The Miami Model: this new documentary by the FTAA Indymedia Video 
Collective documents police repression in Miami during last November’s FTAA meeting 
– and the implications that the ‘Miami model’ has for public protest and 
dissent for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions later this summer.

About Venezuela Bolivariana: This new documentary film explores the roots and 
the radical vision of the grassroots Bolivarian movement in Venezuela, and 
how this movement interconnects with movements for social and economic justice 
throughout Latin America and abroad. 
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