The Miami Model (2003) FTAA Summit Indymedia documentary
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Uploaded by HongPong on Sep 15, 2011
Produced by Indymedia - The documentary with an $8.5 million security budget.
In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America.
Thousands of union members, environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, students, farm workers, media activists, and human rights activists who gathered in Miami to struggle against the FTAA were brutally attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, electric guns and shock batons, embedded reporters and information warfare, all coordinated by the new United States Department of Homeland Security.
Against Capital's model of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, and corporate rule, we offered models of grassroots resistance, creative action and solidarity.
Breaking the Media Blackout
Collectively, Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours of video footage documenting the FTAA protests in Miami. This footage has been edited by the FTAA Miami Video Working Group into a documentary that cuts through the mass media blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties that took place, as well as the life-affirming and inspiring alternatives to capitalist globalization that were also in full effect in Miami.
The FTAA IMC video working group is proud to present The Miami Model.
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Well, the conclusion is rather positive. Though supposed free trade continues to be signed as stated.
The "Miami Model" was applied also during the G20 in Toronto. The police violence was less overt, with few injuries as such, but with over 1100 arbitrary arrests (a record) and general (unlawful) harassment of people in downtown Toronto for a few days. I was there as an indep. reporter to film the mass protest as it would be predictably ignored by the media (focused on black block actions).
Wanderor2003 4 weeks ago
A hell of a lot more folks need to see this.
haggidubious 3 months ago
Thanks for full video. I just had a four year old Youtube version cut down to 56:33.
Just as bloody and brutal as Daley's Chicago.
whodoesknow99 4 months ago