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Screening of “Resisting Paradise” and Q & A with filmmaker Barbara Hammer - December 12 at The Change You Want To See
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Oaxaca: A Portrait of Rebellion - Report-back by Calamity - December 11 at 16Beaver
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Screening of “Land, Rain, and Fire: Report from Oaxaca” and Q&A with [...]
RESISTING PARADISE
From feminist film pioneer Barbara Hammer, “Resisting Paradise” is a provocative experimental documentary that asks: What are our responsibilities during political crises? How does art exist during a time of war? Shot in the French Mediterranean fishing village of Cassis and set against the backdrop of World War II, the film contrasts the [...]
Brutal force continues to be exerted by the Mexican state upon the people of Oaxaca. What more can we learn about the situation? And how can this knowledge inform our actions or activities here? How can individuals living in this context contribute to the rebellion that is taking place in Oaxaca? What forms [...]
This evening at The Change You Want To See: the first of a monthly installment of potluck dinners with Greenpeace volunteers, canvassers and campaigners.
Zizek claims, “We do not relate to a certain person as to a “king” because this person is “in himself” (on account of his charismatic character or something similar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-symbolic relations.”
The significance of Zizek’s idea is that, between the person [...]
