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<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: BRADDON;"><i>Darwin's
Nightmare</i></span><br>
[<i>climbing the evolutionary ladder on the backs of Africans</i>]<br>
<br>
Thursday, February 16th, in Cambridge [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-120216-Darwins%20nightmare.pdf">please
download & distribute flyer</a>]<br>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: BRADDON;"><i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-120216-Darwins%20nightmare.pdf"><img
alt="" src="cid:part1.03070207.01070102@mynas.com"
align="right" border="1" height="661" hspace="10"
width="512"></a></i></span>This is a tale about humans
between the North and the South, and about globalization, and about
fish. <br>
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Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was
introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The
Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire
stock of the native fish species. The new fish multiplied so fast
...its white fillets are today exported all around the world.<br>
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The larger scope of the story explores the gun trade to Africa that
takes place under the covers -- Russian pilots fly guns into Africa,
then fly fish back out to Europe. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo
planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their
southbound cargo ̶ Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted
wars in the dark center of the continent. The hazards and
consequences of this trade are explored, including the pan-African
violence propagated by constant flow of weapons into the continent.
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If it is a "survival of the fittest" world, as Darwin concluded,
then the capitalist interests that fund the gun runners are climbing
the evolutionary ladder on the backs of the Africans in this stark
Darwinian example. Much like the foreseeable extinction of the Lake
Victoria perch, and death of Lake Victoria itself, the Africans are
in grave jeopardy, even as they survive in the only ways they know
how.<br>
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This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created
an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest
tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents,
homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian
prostitutes and Russian pilots.<br>
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<i>"...an extraordinary work of visual journalism, a richly
illustrated report on a distant catastrophe that is also one of
the central stories of our time.</i>" ~ NYT<br>
<br>
"<i>Sauper’s delicately horrific documentary is a short, sharp slap
in the face of the developed world, and a long overdue one at that</i>."
~
Austin Chronicle <br>
<br>
"<i>It immerses you in its reality one toe at a time, until suddenly
you are in over your head, gasping for air as the horror of the
situation reveals itself in all its savage devastation</i>." LA
Times<br>
<br>
"<i>This isn't Darwin's nightmare; it's our own</i>." Howard
Schumann, IMdb<br>
<br>
"<i>Mr Sauper has done something extraordinary. Without putting in
any bias, he has allowed this story to unfold on its own. I've
never, EVER seen a documentary like this</i>." ~B Merritt,
Amazon.com<br>
<br>
<h2>Director Hubert Sauper says:</h2>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_1">"In DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE I tried
to transform the bizarre success story of a fish and the ephemeral
boom around this "fittest" animal into an ironic, frightening
allegory for what is called the New World Order. I could make the
same kind of movie in Sierra Leone, only the fish would be
diamonds, in Honduras, bananas, and in Libya, Nigeria or Angola,
crude oil. Most of us I guess, know about the destructive
mechanisms of our time, but we cannot fully picture them. We are
unable to "get it", unable to actually believe what we know.<br>
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It is, for example, incredible that wherever prime raw material is
discovered, the locals die in misery, their sons become soldiers,
and their daughters are turned into servants and whores. Hearing
and seeing the same stories over and over makes me feel sick.
After hundreds of years of slavery and colonisation of Africa,
globalisation of African markets is the third and deadliest
humiliation for the people of this continent. The arrogance of
rich countries towards the third world (that's three quarters of
humanity) is creating immeasurable future dangers for all
peoples."<br>
</blockquote>
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<br>
When/where</b><br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
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Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!<br>
free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.<br>
[donations are accepted]<br>
<i><br>
"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.</i>"
~ Malcolm X<br>
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href="http://rule19.org/videos/">rule19.org/videos</a><br>
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Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars -
on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So
America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more
ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights... <br>
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