MID EAST REVOLT-revolutionary prospects in Middle East

place: Tűzraktér(back room of Café)
Hegedű street 3
Budapest VI. district
time: 31 January, 19.00


discussion with Yana Ziferblat(former general coordinator of Coalition of Women for Peace- http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english) about the reasons, circumstances and expectable consequences of revolutionary events and the chain of uprising in Tunisia, Egypt and other Northern African/Middle Eastern countries. Might the revolution in Middle East bring closer the definitive fall of imperialism and/or all the forms of capitalistic oppression?

After the discussion-if we have still energy and mood for it-will screen an amazing Finnish documentary about hypocrisy of western based companies and governments supporting an cruel/tragicomic dictatorship at one Central-Asian country:

place: Tűzraktér(Aprótér room-downstairs of building A)
Hegedű street 3
Budapest VI. district

time: 31 January about 21.30

The Shadow of the Holy Book(Arto Halonen. 2007, 90')

A look at how multinational corporations curried favor with Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006), the despot of oil- and gas-rich Turkmenistan, primarily through translating "Ruhnama," his autobiographical book of cultural musings, into many languages and providing testimonials that legitimized his murderous dictatorship. Two European journalists interview Turkman dissidents and try, without success, to get statements from multinationals such as Çalik Holdings, Siemens, Daimler-Chrysler, John Deere, Caterpillar, and Bouygues Construction as to why they put business interests ahead of human rights. A Finnish CEO provides the solitary moral compass.