Bay Area DUers- "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

[arcane1]

is playing this weekend at the Shattuck in Berkeley, at the following times:


Sat - Nov 15: (1:20, 3:10, 5:00), 9:25
Sun - Nov 16: (1:20, 3:10, 5:00), 9:25


I know I'll be there at some point this weekend, I'm DYING to see this. Anyone else?


:bounce:

[proud patriot]

1. Sat. Afternoon is good for me

:hi:

[cally]

3. I could come to the Saturday

3 or 5 showing.

[MaryBear]

4. How about 3:00, then?

On Saturday? What works for most?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Sorry, havn't done Berkley since peoples park

Keep waiting for something to happen in San Jose.

[Terwilliger]

5. Either of the first three times on Saturday are good for me

:bounce:

[arcane1]

6. same here

3:00 looks to be most popular

plenty of party time afterwards, too! :party:

[cally]

7. I propose 3 pm showing and

we meet at the theatre. Then we go for Indian food afterwards. We can discuss restaurants at the show. See you there.

[proud patriot]

9. Mmmm Indian ..YUMMY

Tandori ...drool ...

[noiretextatique]

8. i can't make it...i am going to napa

for some wine tasting on saturday. sunday is fine though.

[Terwilliger]

11. Hey!

How are you doing?

[proud patriot]

13. Hey noiretblu

:hi:

[Tinoire]

10. Saturday works well

Sunday I have a fund-raiser and a party so that's out but Saturday anytime is good.

[proud patriot]

12. Sat. at 3 then ...Hey Tinoire try and remember my video pretty please

I was just telling a friend about it , and he's
interested in watching it . :loveya:

[arcane1]

14. 3:00 works for me!

see you all then!!

:loveya:

[Tinoire]

23. Awww shucks! I remembered your videos

but you didn't comes :( So wow, now they're back at my house gettings lots of tender love ;)

Missed you! I am going to see this again. This is really a MUST SEE.

It should be required viewing for all DUers!

Peace.... Viva la revolucion!

[proud patriot]

27. oh shoot wouldn't you know it ...LOL

Next time ...:hi:

[arcane1]

15. the address

for those who may need it

2230 Shattuck Ave

[MaryBear]

16. Sick again

Restaurant food seems not to agree with me! Sorry to miss this.

[Tinoire]

17. Awww drats!

I hope you feel better soon!

[arcane1]

18. that's a bummer

we'll tell you all about it :) not sure how long it will be playing there...

get well soon! :hi:

[proud patriot]

19. Sorry , I'm not going to make it

:-(

[Terwilliger]

20. OK pp!

Hope everything is ok! :hi:

[proud patriot]

21. Yes , everything is fine , a friend needs a favor

and is in a jam needs a ride today .

[Hell Hath No Fury]

22. Damn! I just missed you guys!

I decided to try and catch you guys as the movie ended, so I left my painting party and headed over. I thought I'd given myself enough, but I didn't counst on snail-pace traffic on Ashby & Shattuck. Then I made the mistake of going to the United Artists theatre a block before the Shattuck. When I finally made it to the right place I was told the movie had let out around 15 minutes before. Grrr. I even tried some of the restaurants/bars on the block, but no go.

Anyway, let us who didn't make it how the movie was.

And remind me that I need to get some cell numbers from folks. :)

[Tinoire]

24. DRATS!

This is saddening! Sorry we missed you..

The movie is EXCELLENT. I just can't say that enough.

I am definitely going to go see this again!! It was so enthralling for Leftists that I think it should be required viewing for all DUers.

Absolutely amazing from a cinematographic/artistic point of view and the story. I just can't say enough. You MUST see it!

On April 12th 2002 the world awoke to the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and had been replaced by a new interim government. What had in fact taken place was the first Latin American coup of the 21st century, and the world's first media coup...

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The Banff Rockie Awards 2003 were announced in Canada last night and the Global Television Grand Prize / Grand Prix Global was awarded to Chavez - Inside the Coup, Power Pictures Ltd. in association with RTÉ/ The Irish Film Board/BBC/ZDF/ARTE/NPS/CoBo/ YLE.


The documentary, which depicted the overthrow and return to power of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in a coup in 2002, was directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain and produced by David Power of the Galway-based independent company. The company had secured unique access to President Chavez for an observational documentary and were with him in the Presidential Palace in Caracas when the coup took place.

http://www.chavezthefilm.com/html/film/banff_release.htm
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Washington's hostility towards Venezuela became more pronounced, with senior officials questioning President Chavez' 'commitment to democracy' – this from a US administration that required the intervention of the Supreme Court to enjoy 'electoral' success!

Nonetheless, President Chavez' domestic opponents - driven by the kleptocracy that ran PDVSA - had found new friends abroad.
After the coup, it would emerge that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an agency of the US government, had quadrupled its funding for Venezuelan 'democrats' (the opposition) in the year leading up to the coup. NED funding of the opposition totalled $877,000.

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US Oil Supply Threatened
But it was events in the Middle East that may well have compelled the coup plotters to act when they did. Israeli actions in Occupied Palestine, during the early months of 2002, resulted in widespread international condemnation and anger. Attention focused on the United States – Israel's chief source of financial and political support.

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http://www.chavezthefilm.com/html/backgrd/oil.htm


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Of course, a US state department official is trained to hear the sound of an oil well tap turning from several thousand miles away. Chavez is no friend to the US. He went on television to denounce the US bombing of civilians in Afghanistan, brandishing pictures of dead children. He is a public friend to Fidel Castro. It wasn't mentioned here, but he has had his meetings with Saddam Hussein and Gadafy. In Bush's list of those "either with us or against us", he's with the axis of irritants. "We are concerned with some of the things said by President Chavez, and his understanding of what a democratic system is about," said Colin Powell, with the hemmed in anger of a boss who has an employee he wants to sack, but the union won't let him.

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The world's press carried reports that could have been written by the coup leaders themselves, and, because they were based on these pictures, to a certain extent they were. This film punctured every lie. The world accused the pro-Chavez crowd of carrying out the shootings; O'Briain and Bartley's camera proved it wasn't so, filming the victims almost before they hit the ground. The coup leader Pedro Carmona's speech about this "profoundly democratic process" and Colin Powell's parroting of Carmona's lie was inter-cut with film of the police shooting at protestors. As Carmona was on CNN declaring that the "the country is in a state of total normality", the camera was in the palace from which he had just been ousted. It followed the palace guard as they moved to strategic positions, took the building back and reinstated Chavez.

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http://www.chavezthefilm.com/html/film/review.htm

[cally]

25. The movie and company were awesome

I'm sorry we missed you HHNF!

This movie is a must see for liberals! Tinoire maybe you want to also post in the Lounge so more can learn about this movie.

I woke up thinking that Chevez's effort to teach folks about their Constitution before the attempted coup was a big part of it's ultimate failure. So many folks kept saying it's against the constitution during the re-taking of the Government. :bounce:

[MaryBear]

26. Wow! Thanks, Tinoire.

I wonder if this will ever be available on video.