Guests GUESTS FROM LATIN AMERICA From Buenos Aires, Argentina
Members of the group Santa Revuelta
Aníbal Kohan : Santa Revuelta’s singer-songwriter
Anibal Kohan takes his inspiration from the struggles of Argentina’s
militant unemployed workers, the « piqueteros ». The group
are prominent performers on Buenos Aires’ latest stage : the street.
Anibal’s songs describe the piquetes (road barricades), the neighbourhood
assemblies, the daily lives of the people whose movement shook the ruling
system that was bankrupting the country and toppled presidents in 2001.
An economist by training, Anibal has also published a book « ¡A
las calles! » on the history of the « piquetero » and
« cacerolero » movement.
Carlos de Hoz (Charly) : Charly is a guitar virtuoso
and talented music producer who found himself reeling under the impact
of the economic crsis along with thousands of other Argentines. Since
then, he has become a fellow traveller of the people’s movements
performing with Santa Revuelta on the picket lines and at neighbourhood
assemblies. He runs a small recording studio, called « faremostrium
» (triumfaremos) which he calls a « peoples’ studio
» and makes available to musicians with little means.
Colombia, the Chocò region Jeferson « Ali » Orejuela sings with a rap
group in the jungle community of Cacarica, in the Choco province of northern
Colombia. Hundreds of Afro-Colombian families were driven out by military
and paramilitary troops in 1997. After spending three years in a refugee
camp, they returned to their region with the assistance of international
observers. They formed CAVIDA - Autonomous Communities for Life and Dignity
- but still live under constant threat of expulsion from government and
paramilitary troops because they stand in the way of huge agri-business,
mining and other projects.
Maria Ligia Chaverra is an Afro-Colombian elder who sits
on the Community Council of Curvarado in the Choco province of Colombia.
These communities were also forced to abandon their lands during the same
military operations that ravaged the Cacarica. Today, they are refugees
in an adjoining region where they have united in a civlian resistance
process to claim their right to ancestral land. They are opposing the
drive to set up agro-industrial plantations of African palm on their territory.
Mexico, Oaxaca Raúl Gatica is a poet and spokesperson of the
CIPO, Indigenous People’s Council of Oaxaca, Mexico. CIPO groups
a number of indigenous communities including Zapotecs, Chinantecas, Nuu
Savi, and Mixes in the state of Oaxaca where they face constant repression,
disapearances and assasinations. Raul Gatica has himself been a political
prisoner and victim of torture because of his work, and even now he is
followed, harassed, and threatened daily. The CIPO communities, who follow
the Flores Magon tradition, work together to promote self-government,
direct democracy, and free association of peoples. In so doing they are
fighting against the poverty and discrimination they face as native people
in Mexico.
Montréal Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy are co-Directors of Rebel Music
Americas, produced by Lucie Pageau and Productions Multi-Monde, 2004. Marie Boti : Directed the earlier Rebel Music Quebec,
in 2002. Among her other films is a trilogy about foreign domestic workers,
Brown Women Blond Babies (with Florchita Bautisa, 1991) When Strangers
Reunite (with Florchita Bautista, 1999) and Modern Heroes Modern Slaves
(1997), which won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ award
for best investigative documentary. For almost 20 years, Marie has been
making documentaries while sharing the lives and struggles of the people
and the communities she films. These close relationships and shared struggles
come across in her work. She is a founder of Productions Multi-Monde with
Malcolm Guy.
Malcolm Guy : Director and producer of documentary
and fiction films and President of Productions Multi-Monde. His works
as a director include Turbulent Waters (with Michelle Smith, 2004), Pressure
Point: inside the Montreal blockade, (with Magnus Isaacson and Anna Paskal,
1999), which won the Quebec Film Critics’ award for best documentary,
along with The Suit War (1997), and Moving the Mountain (with William
Ging Wee Dere, 1993). Malcolm is an anti-imperialist and immigrant rights
activist. He is currently working on a documentary about non-status Algerians
in Canada, and is preparing the next Rebel Musics film - on Africa. Malcolm
is also active in the independent film community and sits on a number
of Boards of directors.
Saturday
10 – Montréal Film screening, panel discussion with guests
–REBEL AMERICAS
1:30 to to 5:30 pm
Cinémathèque québécoise, salle Claude Jutras,
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est
Tickets: see on Journées Alternatives
Solidarity concert – REBEL MUSIC
8:30 pm
Ali Orejuela (Colombia), Balthazar, Bombolessé, Jean-François
Lessard, Kumpan'ia, Santa Revuelta (Argentina), Syncop and other special
guests
Kola Note, 5240 avenue du Parc
Tickets: 15$
Information and reservations :
Alternatives
Catherine Binette
(514) 982-6606, poste 2240 catalina@alternatives.ca
or Kola Note
(514) 274-9339
Sunday 11 – Montréal / St-Rémi 13:00 Intercultural encounters under THE TREE OF MEMORY
Jeanne-Mance Park on Mont Royal ,between de l'Esplanade and Park Ave
Information and reservations : Coalition Venezuela Estamos contigo !
Margarita Herreira guayamuri17@yahoo.com St-Rémi - Meeting with Mexican Farmworkers 15h30
El Guero, 111 Lachappelle
Scott Philips +1514 522-7574
Monday 12 – Montreal Back to University
with SCRUTÉ Film screening, panel discussion with guests
6:00pm
Université de Montréal, Local B-4205, Pavillon Jean-Brillant,
3200, rue Jean-Brillant
Free entrance
Information : SCRUTÉ
Frédéric Chatillon
(514) 256-4336 fredericchat@hotmail.com Annual General Meeting of the Christian Committee for Human Rights in Latin America
5 :30 pm : Doors open
6 :00pm : buffet supper with the guests from the Tour
7 :00pm : Official opening of the General Meeting
CCDHAL, 25 Jarry Ouest
Entrance free
Information : CCDHAL
Maude Chalvin
(514 )387-2541 poste 238 info@ccdhal.com
Tuesday 13 – Sherbrooke Film screening and panel 19:00 Solidarity concert 21h
Ali Orejuela (Colombia), Jean-François Lessard, Santa Revuelta
(Argentina)
Le Graff, 41 Wellington S.
Voluntary contribution (suggested: $5)
Réservations et information :
Patrick Elias, +1819 829-0595
Comité de solidarité international de Sherbrooke
Mélanie Mercier +1819 566-8595 x24 melaniemercier@csisher.com
Wednesday 14 – Trois-Rivières Film screening and panel 18:00 Spectacle solidaire 18:30
Ali Orejuela (Colombia), Jean-François Lessard, Santa Revuelta
(Argentina), Sylvie Bernard
Café-bar Le Zénob, 171 Bonaventure
Voluntary contribution
Information : Comité de solidarité Trois-Rivières
Daniel Navarro
(819) 373-2598 solitier@tr.cgocable.ca
Friday 16 – Ste-Foy Film screening followed by Q&A with directors 21h15
Cinéma Le Clap, 2360 Sainte-Foy
Tickets: regular price
Information : www.clap.qc.ca
*** Please note that Musiques rebelles Americas will be presented each evening at 21:15 at the Le Clap Cinema from Sept. 16 - 22, 2005
Saturday 17 – Québec Film screening and panel 19:00 Solidarity concert 21:00
Acalanto (Montréal), Ali Orejuela (Colombia), Santa Revuelta (Argentina)
L’Anti, 725 côte d’Abraham, Québec
Tickets : Pre-sale : Students and unemployed : 6 $
General Admission : 10 $
At the door : students and unemployed : 10 $
General admission : 12 $
Information and réservations : Alternatives
Marie-Noëlle Béland
(418) 521-4000 marienoelle@alternatives.ca
Sunday, 18 – Rimouski Film screening, panel discussion with guests
4:00 pm Solidarity concert
7:30 pm
Ali Orejuela (Colombia), Jean-François Lessard, La Baratte à Beurre, Les Mitaines, Les Pitounes, Les Shinkel's, Patrice Croft et Santa Revuelta
(Argentina)
Paraloeil, 274 Michaud, Rimouski
Tickets - Screening: 4$
Show: 8$
Screening and show: 10$
Information and reservations : Paraloeil
Claude Forget
+1418 725-0211 claude.forget@paraloeil.com Tuesday, 20 – Ottawa
Film screening - Q&A with directors and Latin American guests 18:30
SAW Club, 67 Nicholas
Informations : Documentary Organization of Canada (Ottawa-Gatineau)
Sabrina Mathews
+1613 232-6663
Wednesday, 21 – Guelph Film screening and panel discussion 19:00 Solidarity concert 22:00
Featuring :
Santa Revuelta (Argentina), Ali Orejeula (Colombia), DJ Red Menace (Toronto), DJ Rudolpho (Guelph)
The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario
Information and reservations : The Book Shelf
Jeff Adams
(519) 821-3311 poste 126 ebarmusic@sympatico.ca
Thursday, 22 – Peterborough Film screening and panel 16:00
pm: Pot luck with organizers 19:00: Film screening 20:00: panel
Maria Liga Chaverra, Ali Orejuela, Raul Gatica, Rick Arnold (Common Frontiers),
Marie Boti, Malcolm Guy
Panel Moderator: Linda Slavin, Peterborough Community Activist Solidarity Concert 21:00 - 23:00: Performance and meetings
Cinema 379, 379 George St. N., Peterborough, ON
$10 Regular price
$5 Students, elderly, unemployed
Information et reservations: OPIRG University of Trent
Jessie White
+1705 741-1208
e-mail: opirg@trentu.ca
Friday, 23 – Toronto 13:30-16:00 Film screening and panel discussion Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross Bldg-NRoss 102, York University
(with participation of CERLAC and York University Film Department) Panelists: Marie Boti, Malcolm Guy, members of rock group Santa Revuelta from Argentina (Aníbal Kohan and Charly de Hoz), translator Shana Yael Shubs (CERLAC) 18:30-22:00 Public talk Colombian Social Movements - resisting corporate rule
Koffler Auditorium (University of Toronto), 569 Spadina Ave. (north of College)
Organized by Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA) Speakers:
Maria Ligia Chaverra from Rebel Music Americas Solidarity Tour, Derek Baxter, Assistant General Council for the International Labour Rights Fund (ILRF), a representative of Sinaltrainal (Colombian Food & Beverage Workers´ Union).
(Musical opening with Colombian Kidz drummers and rapper Ali Orejuela from Colombia)
Saturday, 24 – Toronto 15:00-17:30
Film screening and panel discussion
Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina,
University of Toronto
Participants:
Marie Boti, Malcolm Guy, Rose Kazi (singer, songwriter, member of group Lal),
Ali Orejuela, Maria Ligia Chaverra, Raul Gatica, Rusa Jeremic (Common Frontiers & KAIROS) 21:00-24:00 Solidarity Concert where: Cervajaria Downtown (842 College St. West and Ossington)
With Colombian Kidz drummers, The Red Menace, Santa Revuelta, Ali Orejuela, Bomba, Maracatu Nunca Antes, Lal 24:00-02:00 After party with DJs Machetero $ No Capitalista
Sunday, 25 - Gatineau
Film screening, panel discussion with guests 19h
Dépanneur Sylvestre, 9 Fortier, Secteur Hull
Voluntary contribution
Information : Dépanneur Sylvestre
Emmeline Debay
+1819 685-0501 edebay@magma.ca
