G8 Film night - Friday 4 July

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Announcement

The Wellington Indymedia collective presents:

Berlusconi's Mousetrap (abridged) - protests at the July 2001 G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy
and
Footage from protests at G8 meeting June 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany

followed by a brief talk and Q&A from Aotearoa activists who were at the protests.

Venue: 128 Abel Smith Street Community House, Te Aro, Wellington
Date: Friday 4 July
Time: 7 pm

gold coin entry

Further details:

Berlusconi's Mousetrap (Genoa 2001)

(Film/Video, Indymedia Ireland, August 2002 – Director, Aaron Rip)

The protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest and most significant protests in Western Europe since the poll tax riots in the UK. Italian prime minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal media/police preemptive strike on the anti-capitalist movement’s biggest first-world mobilisation to date.

When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred to as the 'Chilean Night'. This film traces the events of the three days of protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a set-up? If Seattle was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

This feature-length film is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa protests against the G8 shot by ten members of IMC (Independent media collective) Ireland, material from the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This compelling footage combined with on-the-spot interviews and reenacted voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active during the protests provides an in-depth blow-by-blow retelling of the story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.