Documentaries
"No Volverán" screening in San Francisco
- 25 October 2007
The San Francisco branch of Hands Off Venezuela organized two screenings of the new documentary, ‘No Volverán: The Venezuelan Revolution Now'. The first screening was at the Mission Cultural Centre in the heart of San Francisco's Latin American community.
The San Francisco branch of Hands Off Venezuela organized two screenings of the new documentary, ‘No Volverán: The Venezuelan Revolution Now’. The first screening was at the Mission Cultural Centre in the heart of San Francisco's Latin American community. 38 people came for the evenings events which included live music from Venezuelan singer song-writer Joan Cerqueiro. After the film, Melanie MacDonald one of the film-makers, was there for Q&A and a good discussion ensued. The film was really well received and one member of the audience said how important he thought it was that the changes in Venezuela take on an international character, fearing it would fail if it was isolated. Another person was surprised and disappointed that there are forces within the Bolivarian movement that want the struggle at the Sanitarios Maracay factory featured in the film, to fail.
The second screening was a small but, very good meeting at San Francisco State University in which 10 of us had a very good discussion after watching the film. The discussion centered on the different kinds of worker’s control and Melanie said how she thought the factory movement was one of the most important elements of the revolution and that the efforts of the worker’s of Sanitarios Maracay were breaking new ground in building equality and solidarity of ALL Venezuelan workers. Ann Robertson, a Lecturer at San Francisco State University and Hands Off Venezuela activist encouraged everyone to sign up to the e-mail list and get involved in order to learn more and make sure that the positive changes happening in Venezuela in the interests of the poor are defended and that accurate information gets out to counteract the distortions and demonizing of the mainstream media. To get your copy of this important film to screen at your school, community centre or trade union branch go to http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/venezuela_dvd_no_volveran.htm or contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to arrange a screening and speaker.>
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