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	Calendar of Events - 2003 [Summer 2007 \| Spring 2007 \| 2006 \| 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003] Saturday, Sept. 6 - Third Annual Progressive Festival 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Ithaca Commons "Be Like its a Globe, Not an Empire" Thursday, Sept. 11 - *The Pinochet Case* Patricio Guzmán 2001, Chile, 109 min 7:15 PM, Willard Straight Hall September 11, 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende of Chile. After the coup, over 3,000 political opponents were tortured and murdered, and a million Chileans went into exile. The Pinochet Case tells the story of the dictator's arrest, 25 years later, for his crimes against humanity. Cosponsored with the Chilean Students and Friends Association. Saturday, Sept. 13 - International day of actions supporting the convergence in Cancén, Mexico against the WTO TBA Wednesday, Sept. 17 - *Discovering Dominga* Patricia Flynn and Mary Jo McConahay 2003, United States, 56 min 8:00 PM, Uris Hall With Associate Producer Jane Greenberg '96 (visit not confirmed at press time) directed by Patricia Flynn and Mary Jo McConahay. When 29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins a journey towards finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine when she became her family's sole survivor of a massacre of Mayan peasants. Two years later, she was adopted by an American family. In Discovering Dominga, Denese's journey home is both a voyage of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship to her American family and a political awakening that sheds light on an act of genocide against this hemisphere's largest Indian majority. Friday, Sept. 19; Saturday, Sept. 20; Tuesday, Sept. 23; - *The Dancer Upstairs* John Malkovich 2002, Spain/United States, 133 min 7:00 PM, Uris Hall; 7:15 on Sept. 20 With Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Minguez. A political thriller based on the novel by Nicholas Shakespeare, and drawing from the real-life activities of Peru's notorious terrorist group, Shining Path, Dancer follows an introverted police officer (Bardem) as he enters into an investigation of an unnerving bout of terrorist executions that rattle his unnamed South American country. Please note: film contains disturbing human and animal violence. Saturday, Sept. 20 - Dan Berrigan 7:30 PM, talk in Barnes Hall Sunday, Sept. 21 - Dan Berrigan 11:00 AM, Sage Chapel Wednesday, Sept. 24 - *The Revolution Will Not Be Televised* Kim Bartley and Donnach O'Briain 2003, Ireland/United States, 74 min 8:00 PM, Uris Hall An extraordinary documentary of the Hugo Chávez government in Venezuela, and most particularly of the events leading up to and during the attempted overthrow of the Chávez government on April 11 and 12, 2002. Co-directors Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain were not only present during the public events surrounding the coup -- a brief and finally unsuccessful attempt by Venezuelan business, media, and military elites to seize power from the constitutionally elected Chávez government -- they were inside the presidential palace grounds during the early-morning hours of April 12. Saturday, Oct. 4 - Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Mass Rally Washington, District of Columbia; Jersey City, New Jersey; Queens, New York Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement, immigrant workers and their allies will set out from nine major U.S. cities and cross the country in buses in late September 2003. They will converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress and then travel to Liberty State Park in New Jersey October 3, and then Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York for a mass rally. More info at: www.iwfr.org Saturday, Oct. 4 - A Live Performance by The Yes Men TBA, Willard Straight Hall The Yes Men are a group of fair trade activists who found themselves in the international media spotlight after impersonating and lampooning the WTO at business meetings around the globe. The comic and disturbing encounters they had while lampooning the rich and powerful are the subject of their live tour. The storytelling will be enhanced with video, music, and projected images. The slides and video will both illustrate the narrative as well as show the audience exactly what happened at the fake WTO lectures. Woven into the story will be a history lesson -- an explanation of how the first world, through organizations like the WTO, continues to exploit the third world, maintaining a modern version of the colonial relationships upon which our current economies are based. Cosponsored with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Wednesday, Oct. 8 - TBA To be screened as part of the combined LASP/CUSLAR/Environmental Fest program. Thursday, Oct. 9 - FTAA Workshop by Dana Brown, TBA, Greenstar Saturday, Oct. 25 - Poster Sale TBA, Autumn Leaves Saturday, Nov. 1 - CUSLAR Benefit Concert at the Nines TBA Monday, Nov. 10 to Tuesday, Nov. 11 - Uniting the States of the Americas by Naima and Alixis, TBA Wednesday, Nov. 19 to Friday, Nov. 21 - Mobilization against the FTAA talks in Miami Friday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Nov. 23 - SOAW vigil and protest Fort Benning, Georgia Wednesday, Nov. 19 to Friday, Nov. 21 - FTAA Ministerial Miami, Florida Concerned citizens from all over North America will converge from November 19-21, 2003 in Miami to voice their opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement (FTAA). Miami will be the host of the FTAA ministerial meeting, which brings together the trade ministers of the hemisphere to launch the final stage of the FTAA negotiations, an agreement vehemently opposed by much of the population of the hemisphere. for more info: www.lasolidarity.org Friday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Nov. 23 - SOA Fort Benning, Georgia Join thousands from across the Americas at the gates of the U.S. military base Fort Benning in Georgia - home of the notorious School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) - to stand in Solidarity with the victims of the School of Assassins and to speak out against terror and violence. For more info about the mobilization and the SOA: www.soaw.org, for more about local organizing: cuslar@cornell.edu, (607) 255-7293.


	Laurie Konwinski, Coordinator 316 Anabel Taylor Hall · Ithaca, New York 14853 · (607) 255-7293 CUSLAR is a project partner with the CRESP Center for Transformative Action.