Soirée média libre

A celebration of free media
to benefit the Centre for Media Alternatives · Quebec

The Centre for Media Alternatives · Quebec (CMAQ), the Quebec branch of the worldwide Indymedia network, invites you to an evening of liberating film, music, and thought.

Main features include :

« Les nouvelles armes de la police suisse »
Indymedia Switzerland and Italy
Length : 26 minutes

« Kilometre 0 »
IMC-Cancun
Length: 58 minutes

+ Independent video showcase

+ Guest DJs, modern / urban music of all kinds

+ Fine Divan Orange cuisine
+ Cold drinks, warm atmosphere

Soirée média libre

A celebration of free media
to benefit the Centre for Media Alternatives · Quebec

The Centre for Media Alternatives · Quebec (CMAQ), the Quebec branch of the worldwide Indymedia network, invites you to an evening of liberating film, music, and thought.

Main features include :

« Les nouvelles armes de la police suisse »
Indymedia Switzerland and Italy
Length : 26 minutes

Les nouvelles armes de la police suisse (2003) was produced by a media activist with Indymedia Bern in Switzerland just before the G8 Summit in Evian, and includes a "post-G8" update.

This film focuses on the fast-growing world of "non-lethal" weaponry being tested and deployed by most of Switzerland's police forces, such as the controversial pellet rifles which nearly cost a Geneva journalist his eye, electrical constraint systems such as the "air-taser" gun being tested in certain cantons, "robo-cop" armours, "Gümmigeschoss" rubber bullet launchers, and a panoply of grenades with varying effects. Dramatic footage from various confrontations is contrasted with reassuring statements by police representatives as Geneva prepares for a summit that marks it to this day.

« Kilometre 0 »
IMC-Cancun
Length: 58 minutes

A documentary realized during the September 2003 World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Cancun, Mexico, by over a dozen video collectives from around the world joining their forces at the Cancun Independent Media Centre.

This feature documents the many diverse actions and protests which shook the WTO's fifth ministerial summit in the resort town of Cancun. The efforts of popular movements, activist groups, NGOs, farmers, independent collectives and free media were indeed crucial in derailing the summit. WTO member countries were unable to come to agreement on key subjects, which meant an instant victory for the global justice movement confronting the WTO and its policies.

+ Independent video:

Be first to see several short features produced by local and international media activists. Watch stirring images captured all around the world -- footage that corporate media would never dare to air.

+ Guest DJs, modern / urban music of all kinds

+ Cold drinks, warm atmosphere

Come early and bring your friends!

To contact us
www.cmaq.net
398-7432