Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (6 of 7)

"The Bottom Line" is part a powerful new documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regimes dependence on its financial connections to the West, citizens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors director, from student account-holders in Barclays Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered.

For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.

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Film & Animation

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• apartheid
• racism
• South
• Africa
• Johannesburg
• documentary
• activism
• social
• justice
• disinvestment
• Barclays
• Bank
• Polaroid
• General
• Motors
• Shell
• oil
• human
• rights
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• Bottom
• Line

[88motho]

What was so hard for old goverment to change its system. l wonder. to make a free country for everybody no matter colour.?

[BobReidy]

It is so detestable that the United States and other nations companies worked alongside the abhorent and imorral government that was apatheid.