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Attention News/Entertainment Editors:
CINEMA 379 - Rebel Music Americas

PETERBOROUGH, ON, Sept. 14 /CNW Telbec/ - On September 22nd CINEMA 379 in
Peterborough is hosting a cultural-political solidarity tour with visiting
musicians and activists from Latin America. This unique event includes the
screening of a feature-length documentary entitled Rebel Music Americas, a
discussion panel with international and Canadian guest speakers and musical
performances by the various musicians who are featured in the documentary.

Rebel Music Americas is a documentary filmed in four countries of Latin
America over a two-year period. Rebel Music Americas takes us into the "other"
Americas, into the social and political movements rocking the region with four
groups of passionate musicians. Theirs is the music of the America of the
South - popular, dynamic, rebellious and often "anti-American". Each of the
artists has their own style, level of involvement and audience. All are
charismatic and passionate about the causes they sing about. Together, they
form a picture of a vibrant and imaginative America that is asserting itself.

The film and the tour were conceived by Productions Multi-Monde, a
Montréal-based company that has been producing documentaries and fiction films
since 1987. Multi-Monde's films deal mainly with social themes, particularly
North-South relations and intercultural experiences. This latest documentary,
Rebel Music Americas, has been presented in several international festivals
and was awarded Best Documentary prize at the Roma International Film Festival
(RIFF) in Rome, Italy in April 2005.

This event is part of a two-province tour, taking place in Québec and
Ontario where presentations have been scheduled for the month of September
with the support of local organizing committees. In Peterborough, the
organizations and institutions involved in making the event possible are:
Horizons of Friendship, Ontario Public Interest Research Group of Trent
University, CUPE National Office, Common Frontiers, New Canadian Centre and
International Development Studies Program of Trent University.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at 751 George Street North, in
Room 102 of Sadleir House or at the door of Cinema 379 (379 George St. N) the
day of the event. Tickets are $10 and $5 for students/seniors/underemployed.
Event starts at 7:00 pm.


Come to celebrate and strengthen ties of solidarity between
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the Americas through film and music!
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GUESTS FROM LATIN AMERICA ON TOUR

From Buenos Aires, Argentina
Members of the group Santa Revuelta
Anibal 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 crisis
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 Choco 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 civilian 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
Raul 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 et 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 : is a 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.

Ontario
Rick Arnold was born in Venezuela and came to Canada when he was a
teenager. He worked with CUSO coordinating the Central American programme from
1979 to 1982. More recently he was Executive Director of Horizons of
Friendship, an international development organization based in Cobourg with a
programming focus on Mesoamerica. Since 2003 has been the coordinator for
Common Frontiers.

Common Frontiers grew out of the opposition movement to the original Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in 1988. To be effective, Canadian organizations realized that they needed to cooperate across sectors nationally, and also across borders. Common Frontiers has had a historic role in opposing NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), and more recently has collaborated in the successful continental effort to derail the Jan. 1st, 2005 implementation of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). Common Frontiers is the Canadian representative of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (H.S.A.) and as such has been participating in an extraordinary experience in cross-border social movement building.



For further information: please contact: Jessica Farias, 1-888-729-9928,
Ext. 24, jfarias@horizons.ca, www.horizons.ca ; Jessie White,
(705) 741-1208, opirg@trentu.ca, http://www.opirgpeterborough.ca