[Ssf] Fwd: [sheffieldsocialforum] Two big events on Saturday

Fri Oct 1 21:13:47 BST 2004

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    From: dave thompson <mpower0 at yahoo.com>
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 Subject: [sheffieldsocialforum] Two big events on Saturday
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Hi
two big events worth going to 
sounds like a great day and night out

please forward on to interested parties

dt

Sheffield European Social Forum (ESF) Mobilising
Committee (please note this is not us!)

‘Sheffield Goes to the ESF’ - Special Film Screenings
in October 
Two Saturdays of thought provoking, radical film and
discussion leading
up to the European Social Forum events in London
October 14th-17th. 

Saturday October 2nd 

3pm ‘Voices From the Rubble’
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist,
Musheir Al-Farra
returns to where he grew up and interviews those whos
lives have been
wrecked by Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Musheir gives
a personal
insight into the suffering of the Palestinians in this
well made, moving
and powerful documentary. 

4.15pm ESF Briefing
What is the ESF? Why should people in Sheffield
consider going? The
latest news on events at the ESF, how to register,
transport,
accommodation and all you need to know. 

5.30 – 7.30pm Michael Moore’s ‘Roger and Me’
In 1989, Michael Moore (acclaimed and controversial
director of
‘Farenheit 9/11’) burst onto the American moviemaking
scene with ‘Roger
and Me’. The groundbreaking documentary chronicles the
progress of the
world’s largest corporation, General Motors, as it
turns it’s hometown
of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town by shutting its
factory. In his
quest to discover why GM would want to do such a
thing, Michael Moore –
a Flint native – attempts to meet the Chairman of GM,
Roger Smith, and
persuade him to come and visit Flint to see the
destruction first hand.
An hilarious expose of corporate greed and the effects
of globalisation.

Film length 91 mins

Saturday October 9th

2-4pm events to be confirmed

4pm film shorts and discussion
‘Sheffield Goes to the ESF’ will be screening short
films from past anti
capitalist demonstrations around the world,
pin-pointing some of the key
moments in the development of the movement. 

6.15pm – 7.15pm film and discussion ‘Rumble in Mumbai’
First screening in Sheffield.
‘Rumble in Mumbai’ documents the World Social Forum
held in Mumbai,
India in January 2004. The Forum is a process that
began as an
alternative to the World Economic Forum and to provide
a venue for the
many disaffected voices that began to seriously debate
globalisation in
the 1990s. Over 100,000 people attended this year’s
forum, all looking
to build international solidarity - and a better
world.

7.30pm – 9pm Film to be announced

All films and discussions to take place at:
Sheffield Independent Film (SIF) 
5 Brown Street
2 mins from Sheffield Station 

Contact details: 
07810 824 223 (Phil Turner – S Yorks NUJ)

local website www.mobilisesheffield-esf.org.uk

London ESF 2004 website www.ukesf.org.uk

Additional Information
The European Social Forum is a giant gathering for
everyone opposed to
war, racism and corporate power, everyone who wants to
see global
justice, workers’ rights and a sustainable society. 

The ESF emerged from the spectacular success of the
World Social Forum
whoch opened in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. The
ESF’s first two
gatherings in Florence (2002) and Paris (2003)
attracted over 50,000
activists from across Europe and beyond. 

It is a chance for people to come together and engage
in debate,
organise action and build campaigning networks. It
will consist of
hundreds of seminars, forums and debates involving
leading activists
from across the world plus music, film showings and
exhibitions. 

The ESF is supported by all of the major unions in the
UK, the Greater
London Assembly and NGOs such as CND, the World
Development Movement,
War on Want and many others.   

Please note the ESF mobilising lot (not SSF)have
booked a load of tickets on megabus - they
go Thurs, Fri or Sat and come back Sun or Mon. They
will cost £10 return
or £5 return if unwaged. Bit of a bargain! Ring 07967
340 275 to book.

Concert for Palestine

 http://concert4palestine.org & Sheffield Palestine
Solidarity Campaign ( http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk)
are organising
a benefit concert on Saturday 2nd October at the
Institute for the Blind,
Mappin Street, Sheffield - and around the world via a
live webcast on
 http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk! plus digital images
from 0742 ( http://image.lowtech.org)

On the bill are the spectacularly danceable Free
Radical - a twelve-piece
soul/tamla outfit that's emerged from the
much-lamented Lemon Sole.

They'll be supported by Green Onions - probably the
best bouncing blues band
in town - and by the extraordinary DJ Disorientalist
playing world beats and
stunning arabic dance tunes.

The gig kicks off at 8pm and tickets are £6 (£5
concessions) - all proceeds go
to the Yorkshire-Palestine Cultural Exchange to help
fund the Gaza-based Al
Asria dance group's tour in November.

There's no bar - but bring your own drinks. Delicious
food will be on sale!

 http://www.concert4palestine.org is an appeal
launched on internet that asks the music
world to organise a global "Concert for Palestine" in
defence of Palestinian
human rights.

The appeal - now open for endorsement at 
http://www.concert4palestine.org - is
sponsored by Gazzella, an Italian NGO that helps
rehabilitate Palestinian
children shot and wounded by the Israeli military in
the occupied territories.

"We wondered why the music world has never sponsored a
global concert for the
Palestinians," said Marina Rossanda, Gazzella's
president, citing a long list
of past humanitarian concerts - from the seminal
Concert for Bangladesh
(1972), through Live Aid for Ethiopia (1985) and the
Freedom Tibet Concert
(1997), to the recent 46664 concert (December 2003) to
fight AIDS.

"We are sure a concert for Palestine would find very
broad support among young
people around the world, and also among musicians."

Further Information:
October 2nd event: ukatconcert4palestinedotorg
Al Asria Folk Dance Tour:
hilarysmithatblueyonderdotcom
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign: 
http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk

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