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Bringing down a Dictator - March 2
February 27, 2006 · Print This Article
Hi guys got an email from James in Spain below.
Hi all
I can´t believe I´m going to miss this so please go for me and could someone video tape it?
What is it? well i don´t know about you but I remember watching the news one night several years ago and suddenly the people of serbia had all got up and decided to get rid of Slobodan Milosovic, so they all drove to Belgrade blockaded everything and kicked him out in a nonviolent revolution. well of course it wasn´t quite like that but it was only a few years later that I found out that this group called Otpor had been working towards this for a few years and their whole campaign has been documented in a great film called Bringing down a dictator. The film is being shown in Melbourne on Thursday and best of all one of leaders of Otpor will be there to address the gathering!
so yeah, I can´t believe I´m going to miss this so please go for me and could someone video tape it?
Where and when: Thursday 2 March, 7pm @ Trades Hall, 1 Lygon Street Carlton VIC
Presented by Pt’chang and the Nonviolence Training Project. Entry by donation.
More info from Pt’chang
“A key organiser in the wave of nonviolent, popular uprisings sweeping through Europe will speak at a film screening in Melbourne next Thursday.
In 1998, Srdja Popovic helped form the Serbian student protest group Otpor!, whose "people power" campaign to unseat Slobodan Milosovic met with success on October 2000 when hundreds of thousands of protestors converged upon and took over the Serbian Parliament, effectively ending Misolevic’s rule.
Mr Popovic will be speaking at a screening of the 2003 PBS documentary Bringing Down a Dictator, which tells the story of the popular uprising against Milosovic between 1998 and 2000. His talk will focus on the use of nonviolent tactics by social change movements to win tangible victories for justice, peace and greater democracy.
This is a rare opportunity for activists, community organisers and anyone working for positive social change to hear first hand how "people power" methods such as strikes, boycotts and community organising can win out against seemingly overwhelming odds.”
So feel encouraged from Spain to go to the movie 
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