The Revolution will not be televised - The Director's Cut

national | public consultation / irish social forum | event notice Monday October 06, 2003 20:23 by Ian McDonald - Comhlamh ian at theplateau dot com 086 605 9122

Showing Thursday, oct 9, 8pm Chief O' Neill's, Smithfield

ATTAC and Comhlamh invite you to a showing of this film followed by a Question and answers session with co-director Donnacha O Briain as a fundraiser for the Irish Social Forum

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Comhlamh and ATTAC Ireland invite you to

A showing of

�The Revolution Will Not Be Televised� - The Directors Cut
(Origionally broadcast as �Chavez: Behind the Coup�)

Followed by a question and answer session with director Donnacha O
Briain.
Chief O�Neills, Smithfield, 8:00pm, Thursday, October 9th.
Tickets 10 euros, available at the door
A fundraiser for the Irish Social Forum


This internationally acclaimed film documents the dramatic events
surrounding the failed 2002 coup against the democratically elected
president Hugo Chavez of Venezula. �[P]robably one of the best documentaries
I have ever seen on television,� observed the Sunday Independent, �and
undoubtedly one of the finest pieces of journalism within living memory�.
Similarly impressed, The Irish times noted:

�The world's press carried reports that could have been written by the coup
leaders themselves, and � to a certain extent they were. This film punctured
every lie�

On the night of the coup, the camera jostled for position outside the office
in which President Chavez was being told to resign by the army high command
or allow the building and all his supporters in it to be bombed. One of his
ministers emerged to tell those outside that he had agreed to be taken
prisoner. She looked at the lens and asked, "Tell the world." O'Briain and
Bartley kept their end of the bargain in an exceptional and thrilling way.�

This showing will be the director�s cut with an additional 10 minutes of
unbroadcast footage, and followed with a question and answer session with
Donnacha O Briain, the film�s co-director (with Kim Bartley).

All are welcome!


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More on the The Irish Social Forum:

Proceeds of this event will support the the work of ATTAC and Comhlamh
through the Irish Social Forum. Money raised will be used to bring a
representative of the People�s Rights Movement of Pakistan to represent the
struggles of ~ 1 000 000 tennant farmers central Pakistan. In the face of
apalling human rights abuses and an agenda of outright disposession against
these communities, Charles Stewart Parnell might as easily have been
speaking to their struggle when, in 1879 he said to a meeting to tennant
farmers in Westport:

�You must not allow yoursleves to be dispossesed as your fathers were� you
must help yourselves, and the public opinion of the world will stand by, and
support you in your struggle to defend your homesteads.�

Yet although no other country in the developed world should be able to
identify with the struggle of these communities more effortlessly than
Ireland, through demands made on Pakistan in recent trade negotiations at
the WTO (specifically GATS), Ireland in fact appears to be complicit in the
agenda behind this disposession.

In bringing a speaker to represent this social movement in Pakistan,
Comhlamh and ATTAC hope to examine Ireland�s complicity in the agenda of
disposession suffered by these Pakistani communities, to explore ways in
which the same agenda is also affecting communities in Ireland, and to
explore the possibilities of building a solidarity between people in Ireland
and Pakistan.

The Irish Social Forum is taking place from Friday Oct 17 through Sunday Oct
19 at the new Student�s centre, University College Dublin. A representative
of the People�s Rights Movement will be speaking at various plenaries and
workshops alongside speakers from Irish civil society on Saturday Oct 18th.

All are welcome to the Irish Social Forum. For more information, see
www.irishsocialforum.org.