[Lasnetmail] The War on Democracy

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Courtesy of Hopscotch Films and LASNET, we have 15 complimentary preview double passes to a screening of the powerful new documentary from award winning writer-film maker John Pilger  "The War on Democracy". 

Tuesday 18th September at 7pm
Cinema Nova
380 Lygon St
Carlton

To enter the opportunity to win a complimentary double pass to this special preview screening event, please email rachelb at hopscotchfilms.com.au with the subject line NOVA-LASNET, advising your name and postal address in the subject of the email.  Your free double pass will then be mailed to you for entry.  Please note, winners will be contacted via e-mail.

The War on Democracy is Australian writer-filmmaker John Pilger's first major feature film for the cinema, an extraordinary and illuminating documentary with Latin America at its heart. It explores people's yearning for democracy - government, for, by and of the people - and demonstrates the brutal reality of America's foreign policy of 'spreading democracy'. It also reveals the remarkable rise of true popular democracy and people power among the poorest on earth, the people of Latin America, whose grassroots movements are often ignored in the West. 

Pilger conducts an exclusive interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and films the people of the barrios and the social movements of Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile, and those who suffered under dictatorships tolerated and encouraged by the US and the West. His interviews with ex US government officials and the head of the CIA in Latin America reveal that what happened in Latin America in the 1980s is a metaphor for how the rest of the world is being 'ordered' today, with the Middle East as its epicentre. 

Above all, The War On Democracy is an inspiring and thought-provoking film, for it sees the world not through the eyes of the powerful, but through the hopes and dreams and extraordinary actions of ordinary people.

The War on Democracy opens nationally on September 27th
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