Author: pilar anita quarzell castel Date: To: forumroma@inventati.org Subject: [RSF] FW: EWO Film Series –"How to Start a Revolution" Thursday, January 31st @ 7.30pm
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> Subject: EWO Film Series –"How to Start a Revolution" Thursday, January 31st @ 7.30pm
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:53:23 +0100
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> Dear all,
>
> Please join us for the next film of our new Fall/Winter Program on Thursday,
> January 31st at 7:30 pm. We will be showing “How to Start a Revolution”, a
> documentary that reveals the remarkable story of modern activism, and the
> power of people to change their world, through the legacy of Professor Gene
> Sharp. Based on his key text "From Dictatorship to Democracy," a handbook of
> 198 strategic 'weapons' to topple dictators, this film was screened in
> cinemas and television in more than 22 countries and became an underground
> hit with the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
>
> Film: How to Start a Revolution (2011)
>
> Run time: 83 minutes
>
> Date: Thursday, January 31st 2013 @ 7.30pm - doors open at 7pm
>
> Location: Arcobaleno - Via Pullino, 1 (metro Garbatella, see directions
> below)
>
> Film synopsis:
>
> HOW TO START A REVOLUTION profiles Gene Sharp and his ally Retired U.S. Army
> Colonel Robert Helvey, who has used Sharp’s methods to train activists as
> far afield as Venezuela, Burma and Belgrade, together with a number of the
> key leaders of nonviolent revolutions around the world all of who testify to
> the power of Sharp’s work in practice. The film climaxes as the recent
> insurrection in Egypt testifies to the power of Sharp’s work, as the action
> unfolds on the streets of Cairo. Throughout, the film makes use of the
> user-generated content of protesters and activists filmed on mobile phones
> in the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Serbia and elsewhere in the world.
> The film explores how organizers of an uprising in one country train and
> inspire participants in the next, and how social media now threaten tyrants
> in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. We also meet progressive
> trailblazers from a number of countries, who discuss how they struggled to
> seize democratic power.
>
> Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and 2012, is Sharp really the
> “Machiavelli of nonviolence”, as he’s been called, or the “dangerous secret
> agent” that television ads in Iran and Venezuela made to warn the public
> against reading his works claim? As stated in the New York Times cited below
> (with link) “Mr. Sharp has been accused of being a C.I.A. operative by
> Iranian authorities and denounced by Hugo Chávez as an evil partner of
> George W. Bush, although he has no connection with the C.I.A. and has never
> been to the White House. When (his) book became available in Russia, the two
> shops carrying it mysteriously caught fire.”
>
> For more info: http://howtostartarevolutionfilm.com/ >
> NYT review:
> http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/movies/gene-sharp-in-documentary-how-to-start-a-revolution.html?smid=tw-nytimesmovies&seid=auto >
> Arcobaleno requires a 6 Euro/year membership card, which is good for
> discounts at exhibitions, theatres, etc. Drinks and/or a light dinner
> available during the screening.
>
> GETTING TO ARCOBALENO (see map: http://tinyurl.com/2cfl3m)
>
> By metro: Take the B Line to the Garbatella stop, exit towards via Pullino,
> turn right and continue (200mt) across Piazza Albini to Arcobaleno.
>
> By bus: Buses 673 from the Colosseum area and 716/715 from Piazza Venezia.
> See the ATAC web site for more options: http://www.atac.roma.it/ >
> See you all next Thursday!
>
> Ilona, Becky, Patrick & Gretchen (Film Committee)
>
> Upcoming films:
>
> Feb 14 – Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space (2009)
>
> Feb 28 – Four Horsemen (2011)
>
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