will not be televised" from being publically screened, as planned, by Amnesty International, at a film festival in Vancouver, Canada.
Yes, they most certainly did stick their giant bulbous noses into the business of this organization to try to keep more human beings from being able to see it for themselves. They sent threats, whines, complaints, stamped their cloven hooves and caused so much trouble A-I decided to change their genuine, appropriate, original plans.
These puffy racist pigs were able to make so much noise, they got their slimy way, just as they have always been able to do in life in Venezuela, as members of the stinking parasitic oligarchy.
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It's mentioned in this interview with one of the people involved in the filming:
Rod StonemanThe author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Case Studies of Politics and the Media speaks exclusively to LWLies.
Marlon Dolcy
Tuesday, December 02 2008 18:24 GMT
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LWLies: Why do you think the film was so controversial, considering the BBC and Ofcom reports and the withdrawal of the film from Amnesty International’s film festival?
Stoneman: The BBC inquiry saw nothing wrong with our documentary, but an inquiry had to be made because they invested in the film and they had to protect their name. In the case of Amnesty International, I don’t entirely blame them for withdrawing the film because they came under increased intimidation, where threats were made to their staff in Caracas. However, I am a little disappointed that they did not have stronger nerves to fall at the first hurdle of the film’s reception.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x51481
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CanPalNet Statement on the Cancellation of
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
by Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) has organized a film festival in Vancouver (Nov 6 to 9) at Pacific Cinemateque. One of the films being shown is "Israel's Secret Weapon", a film that Canpalnet premiered in Canada with the presence of the producer, Giselle Portenier. It is a film we are pleased is being shown at the AI film festival. We encourage people to see it whenever possible.
But Amnesty International also has peremptorally cancelled the showing of another important film they had advertised, scheduled, and which is available. This film deals with the violations of the human rights of Venezuelans by those who orchestrated an unsuccessful coup to overthrow that country's elected president, Hugo Chavez.
Amnesty had been pressured by pro-coup forces to cancel the film and has capitulated. Amnesty now says that the human rights of ordinary Venezuelans are too controversial and "political" a matter for them, and therefore they have cancelled the showing of the acclaimed documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". Though they lack the determination to resist political pressure for censorship, AI still acknowledges that the film is relevant to the human rights concerns they had wanted to "highlight".
This selective attention to human rights is contrary to the avowed mandate of Amnesty. We regard the human rights of Venezuelans no less important than those of Palestinians, or our own. And we understand well that a world in which the rights of some can be sacrificed is a world in which the rights of all are unacceptably insecure. So we choose solidarity instead of selective concern.
More:
http://www.canpalnet.ca/archive/amnestystmt.html
@disinfo: #CIA’s Regime Changing Activities in #Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised http://goo.gl/fb/BwrbE #news
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