Post-CM film screening: Friday, August 28th
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This month's post-Critical Mass film screening will be "This Is What Democracy Looks Like." The film, hosted by Rochester SDS and the Flying Squirrel Community Space, is set to begin at 9:30pm at 285 Clarissa St (aka. the Flying Squirrel!).
In light of the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh, PA (http://resistg20.org/), Rochester SDS is taking a glance ten years into the past.
This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's power to arbitrarily overrule nations' environmental, social and labour policies in favour of unbridled corporate greed, protesters from all around came out in force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world is determined to deny the little people.
There will be drinks, and popcorn for free and some baked good for sale to help Rochester SDS!! This monthly screening is a fundraiser (suggested donation: 3-5 dollars), but nobody will be turned away.
