(Xingu
tribespeople)
Bluestockings in Kloof, better known as a
life music venue, will present a double screening on March 15. These include Coconut Revolution and Amazon Xingu Tribes – Belo Monte Dam
Resistance.
These deeply pertinent media productions
are unlikely to be found on mainstream television, for corporate fear of global
uprising and awakening on the injustices of corporate tyranny.
The screenings promise “…an absolutely
fascinating evening of real life human struggle against the system that
destroys the worlds treasures for its transient fix of paper money. This is not
a depressing movie night, but in fact a very inspiring one of some poor nobodys
that took their power back, took their land back and chased the crazy baldheads
out of town!”
Coconut
Revolution (55min) – The people of Bougainville
Islands, in Papa New Guinea, north of Australia, have unfortunately happened
upon a similar invasion of their ancestors lands in the 80s, where mining giant
Rio Tinto Zinc acquired the land without the natives’ permission, via a series
of political tennis matches, and began strip-mining the island and destroying
its ability to sustain life. The indigenous peoples of Bougainville took to
desperate revolutionary measures to protect their homeland, and on a long
enough timeline, their entire culture. The Coconut Revolution has been dubbed
the world’s first successful eco-revolution. Watch the 4min trailer on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPF3cnIdy5s
Amazon
Xingu Tribes (35min) – If you’ve seen the James
Cameron movie Avatar, this is a must because
James Cameron didn't make it up! His movie is based on a series of very real
events happening right now in the Amazon basin, where the tribes of the Xingu
river are being given only one choice - to comply with Brazil's plan for commercial
expansion of their energy, that will see the homes, lives and cultures of the
Xingu tribes destroyed, by floods in some areas and drained rivers in other
areas, by the construction of the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world
– the Belo Monte.
The screenings take place on March 15 at
19h30. Entry R30 (R60 dinner by pre-booking only). Bookings through Narene on 083
659 3628.
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