[mgj-discuss] Film Screening: India and Globalization

[Debi Kar]

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DC COLLECTIVE FOR SOUTH ASIANS PRESENTS:


THE SOUTH ASIAN FILM SERIES

***INAUGURAL SCREENING***

When:   Sep 25, 2002 at 7:00 pm

Where:  Cada Vez, 1438 U Street, NW Tel: 202-667-0785
 Closest metro: U Street-Cardozo (Green line)

What:   A screening and discussion on two films addressing the 
themes of globalization and economic justice.

DROWNED OUT (75 min; Dir: Franny Armstrong)
A story of a famiily that chose to stay at home and face submergence
 rather than make way for a mega-dam on the Narmada river.

INDIA AND FREE TRADE (33min; Dir: Pavithra Narayanan)
Examines the effects of a global free market economy by
highlighting the caustic actions of transnational companies in the
Bhopal-Union Carbide disaster.

A Discussion will follow the screening with
Ward Morehouse, author of "The Bhopal Tragedy,"  
and activists working on the Narmada campaign.


COME EARLY: Cada Vez has great food and is a great place to hang out and
meet folks!

 Suggested Donation: $5 at the door

DCCSA is a collective of DC metro area-based, action oriented
individuals who work on a broad spectrum of progressive issues
concerning the global South Asian community--peace and communal
harmony, social and economic justice, xenophobia, gender, sexuality, 
and race issues.  For more information, write us at
dccsa_safs at yahoo.com.

We are sponsoring a series of films over the next many months that 
will atempt to address some of these issues. Screenings are followed by
discussions.

On OCTOBER 2: "Evil Stalks the Land": A new documentary about the
Gujarat massacres and their aftermath: Dir: Gauhar Raza. Venue TBA

The event is co-sponsored by ActionAid USA and Greenpeace



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