[Peace] The Take and 4th WW at Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Two great events at Allen next week. please forward widely:

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The Take 
by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (2004) 87 min 

Champaign-Urbana premiere!

Monday, April 25
7:00pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory
Free and open to the public
(parking available in the garage across the street)

Filmed in Argentina over the course of eight months, The Take documents the beginnings of a new social movement that took place under the radar of the world's media. The recent economic crisis that shattered Argentina caused widespread dislocation and pushed more than half the population into extreme poverty. However, at two hundred factories, schools, supermarkets, and health clinics, something remarkable happened: rather than allowing their workplaces to be closed down, they turned these bankrupt businesses into productive, democratically-run cooperatives. The Take tells this story of working people forging genuine alternatives to the brutal economic realities of the Washington Consensus--a story whose implications are universal, and more important than ever.

"A thriller... Hard, sharp and provocative!" - The Globe and Mail

"... a stirring, idealistic documentary..." - The New York Times

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The Fourth World War
Thursday, April 28
8:00pm
South Rec Room of Allen Hall

Free and open to the public
(parking available in the garage across the street)

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is a powerful new film that weaves together stories from Palestine, Iraq, Chiapas, Argentina, South Africa, South Korea to Quebec City and Genoa. The product of over two years of filming, The Fourth World War is a new kind of film for a new world. Directed by the award winning New York-based Big Noise Films, and narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and Singer Michael Franti of Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides. 

"A powerful, radical cry from the frontlines of the war on people. This film captures the spirit of resistance: it is as beautiful and global as humanity itself."
-Naomi Klein, author of No Logo



"Inspirational. Essential. THE FOURTH WORLD WAR documents the history of the future before it is born. . . and while we can still do something about it."
-Peter Wintonick, Internatonal Editor, POV (Point-of-View Magazine)



"Daring. . . courageous. . . heart-pounding. . ."
Patricia R. Zimmermann, author, States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies

"Startling Frontline Filmmaking!"
Marc Mahon, The Oregonian



"The 4th World War is a masterpiece. I cried the first time I watched 4WW. And in the second viewing I cried even more. . . it explodes with the breadth and intensity of a global movement that was almost unimaginable ten years ago."
-R.J. Maccani, Left Turn Magazine



Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu


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