Two Trevors in NYC

[Doug Henwood]

>The Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute invites you to
>a Special Event:
>
>         CHALLENGING GLOBALIZATION FROM THE GRASSROOTS.
>Wednesday, October 4th, 6 PM at the
>         New School's Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th St.
>         (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
>
>This event will feature the film, TWO TREVORS GO TO WASHINGTON, directed by
>Ben Cashdan, an incisive yet humorous account of the April 16 IMF and World
>Bank meetings and protests, through the eyes of two opposing South Africans,
>both named Trevor and both veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle. [See
>description of film below]
>
>With Special Guests
>         -- Trevor Ngwane, subject of the film, dissident Johannesburg Metro
>Government Councilor and former African National Congress member; and
>         -- Rich Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer.
>         -- filmmaker Ben Cashdan, formerly an economic adviser to the office
>of President Nelson Mandela, made the film on special assignment for the SABC
>
>Tickets are $5 and available through the New School Box Office (66 West 12th
>Street) between 1-8 PM, Monday-Friday, call (212) 229-5488 during Box Office
>hours.
>
>For more info on the film visit http://go.to/two.trevors or call
>212.229.5430 ext. 112.
>
>
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>  "TWO TREVORS GO TO WASHINGTON"
>                 [SABC Special Assignment/revised version -- 34 min]
>
>"Two Trevors Go to Washington"  is a lively and entertaining account of the
>IMF and World Bank spring meetings and protests that took place in
>mid-April, as experienced through the eyes of two South Africans, both
>respected veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle, who differ strongly on
>economic issues.
>
>30,000 protestors took to the streets of Washington in April, to demonstrate
>at  the spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.  While the activists
>scaled buildings and chained themselves to traffic lights to voice their
>discontent with these powerful institutions, these two South Africans
>visited the US capital to put forward their radically different points of
>view. 
>
>On the inside: 
>         South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, the champion of South
>Africa's conservative economic policy introduced in 1996. Since this time,
>half a million jobs have been lost and poverty has escalated in South
>Africa. Manuel is chair of the Board of Governors of the IMF and World Bank
>for the year 2000. 
>
>On the streets:
>         Dissident Johannesburg Metro Government Councillor and former Africa
>National Congress member, Trevor Ngwane, from Soweto. He joined the
>protestors in the streets  to call for immediate debt forgiveness and the
>closure of the international financial institutions.  
>
>Through the contrasting perspectives - and oft humorous adventures - of the
>'Two Trevors', we take a look at the political turn-around of  South
>Africa's ANC politicians as they move to implement a World Bank-style
>structural adjustment programme. We get a unique insider perspective on both
>the world economy's commanding heights, and the global protest movement that
>has emerged to fight  the power of those commanding heights.  ##  
>
>The film was directed by Ben Cashdan
>