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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. July 9-11, Chicago Filmmakers & Buddy Gallery.

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 SPEC – the Self Publishers Event Council of Chicago.

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.