Thursday, June 25 @ 8PM:
In the Summer of 2000, more than 100 cyclists set out from Hannover,
Germany on a 500-mile bike caravan across Europe to join the mass
mobilization against the IMF/World Bank meetings in Prague. Just a
year after the historic protests in Seattle against the WTO, the
Prague mobilization was an important moment in the then-still-growing
antiglobalization movement - it was a moment where it still felt
possible to change the world, when protests still seemed to mean
something, to effect some dent in the status quo of multi-national
organizations. It's no wonder, then, that the "Money or Life" bike
tour took shape - not just a bike caravan aiming to get participants
to the mobilization, it was an attempt to create a tuly mobile utopian
community ... and filmmaker Zach Weinstein was there to document it
all. Caravan/Prague is Weinstein's video diary of the days, nights,
and times in-between he spent on the road, with the bike caravan, all
the way to Prague. Whether you like bikes or not, and whether you
agree with his (largely anarchist) politics or not, it's a great film
- bizzare, informative, entertaining, and challenging. This screening
kicks off our summer film series (every Thursday until the end of
August!) - don't miss it!
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