CGHR Film Screening: 'We Are Many'

The Centre of Governance and Human Rights is pleased to be hosting a screening of Amir Amirani's "We Are Many" on Friday, November 14th at 5pm in the King's College Keynes Lecture Theatre. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

To reserve *free tickets* and for more information, please see: www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/cghrfilmscreenings

On February 15 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. The /New York Times/ called this movement the 'Second Superpower'.

How did this day come about? Who organised it? And was it, as many people claimed, a total failure?

This fearless documentary is the remarkable inside story behind this first global demonstration, and its unreported legacy. The film features testimony from a unique cast of direct participants, including organisers, activists, high-profile figures, and of course the public, filmed in seven countries - Italy, Spain, Egypt, Sweden, Australia, UK, and USA.

Contributors include Danny Glover in the US, actor Mark Rylance in the UK, film director Ken Loach, Prof. Noam Chomsky, musicians Brian Eno and Damon Albarn, writer and Vietnam Vet Ron Kovic (author of /Born on the 4th of July/), Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Branson and Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.

Amir Amirani charts the birth and growth of the new people power movement, now sweeping the world, taking us up to the Arab Spring and Syria, a little over 10 years after that historic day.