A short film from the makers of the globaluprisings.org film series, Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh, produced for the opening of the Global Uprisings conference at De Balie, Amsterdam, 15-17 November, 2013.
About Global Uprisings
"Over the past two and half years, streets and squares across the world have become the site of massive demonstrations, strikes, occupations, riots, rebellions and revolutions. From the Arab Spring to the movement of the squares in Southern Europe, and from there to the global Occupy movement and the current uprisings in Turkey and Brazil, people everywhere have been rising up against the power of governments, corporations and repressive regimes, representing a global legitimation crisis that affects authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies alike.
"In november we will have the historic opportunity to bring together some 50 people from all over the world who have been directly involved in these various struggles. From November 15-17, the Global Uprisings conference will be a unique weekend of presentations, discussions and film screenings in Amsterdam, gathering a wide array of activists, journalists, filmmakers and scholars who have participated in and reported from the front-lines of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Chile, the UK, the US, Canada, Turkey and Brazil."
The Global Uprisings Conference was organized by Brandon Jourdan (award-winning independent filmmaker) and Marianne Maeckelbergh (anthropologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands) of the Global Uprisings documentary film project. The event will be hosted by discussion center De Balie in Amsterdam and is made possible with the funding of the Foundation for Democracy and Media.
Full conference program:
http://www.globaluprisings.org/global-uprisings-event-balie-amsterdam
Overview of all conference videos on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/debalie/videos/search:uprisings/sort:date
Conference venue: De Balie, Amsterdam November 15- 17, 2013
Source:
https://vimeo.com/79519495
Licence:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
