AFRICAN FILM SERIES
Monroe County Public Library Auditorium
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG?
THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 2011
6:30—8:30 PM
"This is the story of the first-ever inter-national grassroots campaign to success-fully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regime's dependence on its financial connections to the West, citi-zens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors direc-tor, from student account-holders in Barclay's Bank to consumers who boy-cott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boy-cotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people un-derstand and challenge Western eco-nomic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a fi-nancial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered"
