Global Review Oct. 12 is Screening of Movie "i"

Date: 10/10/06
Contact: Marc Lebovitz

Thursday's (Oct. 12) Global Review at Illinois State University will be a screening of the film "i" by its creators, Indymedia, followed by an open discussion. Global Review, which is free and open to the public, is at 7 p.m. in the Eleanor Kong Room in Walker Hall.

""i" is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the world's largest all-volunteer network of media activists -- Indymedia. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.

Next week, on Oct. 19, the Global Review topic will be "The Hot Topic of Immigration to the U.S." presented by John J. Betancur, acting director for the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. On Oct. 26, former Illinois State history professor Subho Bashu will speak on "Unending Revolutions: Understanding Current Events in Nepal."