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On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Seattle World Trade Organization protests, please join us:

This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) and Battle in Seattle (2007)

Screenings, Drinking and Discussion
With Rick and Jacquie of Big Noise Films
Sunday, November 29, 6pm - 10pm

The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer St @ Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Recommended reading: "Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up" by Naomi Klein for The Nation

The early 90s were a low point for the Americas. NAFTA had passed, the guerrilla had been murdered in the mountains, the unions were being broken. . . history had ended.

But 10 years ago, we opened a tear in the fabric of that political reality. Suddenly it was possible to imagine futures that we had not allowed ourselves to see, and remember pasts we had been trained to forget.

On the 10th Anniversary of the protests that shut down the WTO in Seattle, join your friends from Big Noise Films and Not An Alternative as we reflect back and look forward. Celebrate the anniversary of our victory, hang out and play drinking games while we laugh at Ray Liotta playing Mayor Paul Schell with a bit too much eyeliner, and Andre 3000 cribbing lines from Hop Hopkins. Join Seattle vets and the Copenhagen-bound as we trace the trajectory from then to now, and beyond.

BYOB encouraged, popcorn provided.

The Untold History of Controlling the Masses Through the Manipulation of Unconscious Desires

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized." - Edward Bernays



Sunday, September 27, 4pm - 9pm
Screening Parts 1-4 of "The Century of Self"
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://thechangeyouwanttosee.org

This Sunday survivors and activists from Bhopal will join us for a special screening of The Yes Men Fix The World (dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr, 2009), a new film in which they appear.

The Yes Men Fix The World follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. The film begins with the Yes Men's famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow Chemical spokesperson on BBC World News. In a broadcast that reached 300 million people, they took responsibility for the world’ largest industrial accident, causing Dow's market value to drop $2 billion in less than a half hour.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster. More than 23,000 have died as a result of the catastrophic gas leak and ongoing water contamination. To this day, residents and allies around the world continue fighting to force the company responsible to make amends. Key organizers from Bhopal will lead a Q&A about the campaign after the screening. This will be their first occasion to watch excerpts from the film in which they are featured.

Sunday, May 10, 6-8pm, free
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
(Directions)

ABOUT THE FILM

Thursday, January 29 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Saturday, January 31 1:00pm - 5:00pm*
no crafting experience necessary

Please join us at Change You Want to See Gallery for an artists talk, screening and workshop led by J Mandle Performance. Julia Mandle's installation Fabrication of Blindness attempts to give voice to the 700+ past and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Participants will learn the stories of those being held, and embroider detainees' poems onto hoods which will be exhibited at installations in Washington DC, Paris, and NYC.

As the paradigm shifts in Washington, Fabrication of Blindness hopes to negotiate the aftermath of Americans' complicit approval of the Bush administration's foreign policy. Working with local craft and activist groups where the installation is shown, sewing circles will offer an opportunity to connect the actions of dissenters with the voices of those who have been held.

Sewing experience is not required, non-crafters are highly encouraged to attend. All materials will be provided. Come Thursday evening and/or Saturday day and get your craft on. An artist talk, discussion and screening with kick the sessions off.

*Saturday drop in any time. Bear in mind the sewing project will take a minimum of two hours.

With subMedia's Franklin Lopez
Thursday, December 4, 8pm, free

Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.

Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of art following action defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”, to the collaborative documentary “Ground Noise and Static”, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture in a most entertaining way.

Please join subMedia founder, director and producer Franklin Lopez (aka The Stimulator) as he steps out from behind the talking boxes to tour us through a video montage of his latest works, mixing culture jamming, news, radical commentary, music and action.

Please join us at The Change You Want To See Gallery for a weekend of screenings, artist talks and workshops exploring the concept of exclusion as it pertains to voting and democracy. From Al Capone and Zombie movies, to knitting workshops and non-citizen voting projects, presenters include artists Cat Mazza, Ricardo Miranda, and Not An Alternative.

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Friday, October 10, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
The weekend kicks off with Vote Early, Vote Often, a multimedia presentation by Marco Deseriis and Jason Jones of Not An Alternative. Followed by a screening of Zombie film “Homecoming” (59min). American soldiers who died in Iraq come back to cast ballots in the US presidential elections.

Saturday, October 11, 12pm – 3pm
Cat Mazza, founder of the MicroRevolt collective of craftivistsm, will give an artist talk. A knitting workshop follows, participants are invited to bring works in progress, or contribute to the completion of Mazza’s latest project Stitch for Senate, in which knit helmet liners will be sent to Senators on election week 2008.

Sunday, October 12, 12pm – 3pm
Artist Ricardo Miranda Zuniga will discuss his latest work VOTEMOS.US ¡Mexico Decide!. Votemos.us is an online Spanish language portal that enables non-citizens to participate in the upcoming U.S. elections. On Sunday, it enters the physical world, as participants are invited to join Ricardo on the inaugural tour of the Votemos.us interactive voting cart.

The Change You Want To See Gallery is pleased to host a film series and workshop on transmission arts, sound performance, and radical radio.

Join us this Thursday for a screening of "Work Slowly - Radio Alice", an account of an Italian pirate radio station run by the so-called "Mao-Dadaist" wing of the Autonomia movement. Then on Saturday we'll host free103point9's Radio Lab: Art Activism Seminar, with a screening of "A Little Bit of So Much Truth", a film that documents the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the people's takeover of 14 radio stations and 1 television station to coordinate organizing efforts. A hands-on workshop on transmitter-building will follow. Presenters include freeradio103point9, Prometheus Radio Project, and Germantown Community Farm.

Thursday, September 25
7:30pm - 9:30pm: Screening of "Work Slowly - Radio Alice" (Lavorare con Lentezza). Discussion to follow.

Saturday, September 27
Radio Lab: Art/Activism Seminar
12pm - 3pm: Screening of "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad). Discussion to follow, snacks provided.
3pm - 6pm: Presentation and transmitter-building workshop with freeradio103point9, Prometheus Radio Project, and Germantown Community Farm.

free103point9 Radio Labs provide students with technical skills and contextual background to consider and utilize the transmission spectrum for creative expression. Workshops address four main topics: the history of broadcasting; how transmitters work; online transmission tools; and transmission arts as a creative medium. Join Tianna Kennedy (free103point9); and Maka Kotto (Prometheus Radio Project), and Kaya Weisman (Germantown Community Farm) for a screening of "Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad" (Corrugated Films), discussion, and transmitter building workshop.

Tuesday, September 16, 7-10pm at The Change You Want To See Gallery
With Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, I-Witness Video, Glassbead Collective, Big Noise Tactical, Indymedia

Please join us for an evening of video clips and conversation with independent media activists who’ve recently returned from the national political conventions. Hear first-hand accounts from the convention floor to the protests in the streets to the insides of a Minneapolis jailhouse.

Discussion topics include the state of protest, the state of independent media, the state of the state, policies of pre-emption, policies of exception, party policies, predictions, predelictions, and lessons learned...

Participants Include:
Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous with Democracy Now!
Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen with Big Noise Tactical
Brandon Jourdan with Glassbead Collective
Eileen Clancy with I-Witness Video
And more…

Inside the Republican National Convention

Iraq Veterans Against the War March

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Arrested

Please join us Thursday, April 17th for a screening of 500 Miles to Babylon, a compelling film about Iraq under U.S. occupation. Filmmaker David Martinez will be on hand to discuss his experiences in Iraq. Sarah Husain, a representative of the War Resisters League’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project will discuss counter-recruitment campaign efforts in New York City.

ABOUT THE FILM:
500 Miles to Babylon is a one-hour documentary shot in multiple cities in Iraq in 2003-4. Narrated by the filmmaker, using footage shot in Iraq threaded with graphically animated archival sequences to provide historic context, the film addresses the current war not simply as a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a company’s coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial project.

Through impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, still photographs, and footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time graffiti artists, Sufi rituals, and the celebrations following Saddam’s capture, 500 Miles To Babylon reveals the complex situation in contemporary Iraq through a personal lens. Far from being a simple anti-war movie, 500 Miles illustrates the terrible complexity of a people brutalized by a dictatorship, and the catastrophic results when that system is changed overnight by shortsighted military means.

Please join us for a multimedia presentation on the history and struggles of the Zapatista movement with very special guest from Chiapas, Mexico, Gloria Munoz Ramirez. Famed author of the recently translated El Fuego y la Palabra (The Fire and the Word), Gloria is probably the closest person to the Zapatistas in Chiapas to have ever come to NYC. Don't Miss this!

Saturday, March 29th, 7:00pm

The Fire and the Word
A History of the Zapatista Movement
Video screening and presentation with the author, Gloria Munoz Ramirez

The film and book "El Fuego y la Palabra" (Fire and Word) is an oral history that recounts from the beginning of the movement of the Zapatista indigenous communities in the state of Chiapas. Their demands are liberty, justice, democracy, land, health, education, and labor rights. The story is told in the simple words of some of the original organizers of the movement. It is an inspiring testimony of hope and resistance. The author, Gloria Munoz, will be coming in to speak about the film and book to provide us with more insight to the compilation of this oral history and the struggles that the indigenous communities in the state of Chiapas have been organizing against.

Gloria Muños Ramirez lived with the Zapatistas for 7 years and wrote a book to share their story that is now available for the first time in English. She will speak about the Zapatista resistance and history. She has worked for the Mexican newspaper Punto, for the German news agency DPA, for the U.S. newspaper La Opinion and for the Mexican daily La Jornada.

Campaign EZLN: The Fire and the Word