The Miami Model

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 ftaaaimc.org video working group is proud to present The Miami Model .

Credits

FTAA IMC

Edited and produced by the FTAA Miami Video Working Group:

Adams Wood, Ali Tonak, @my, Brandon Jourdan, Erin Siegal, Francine Cavanaugh, Ioka Jessica Lawrence, J.D., Kat, Kevin Hart, Kevin Brown, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sharpie, Wes Brain, Michael Cardenas, Michael Green, Zulah

Videography by:

Accion Creativa, Adams Wood, Aiden, Ali Tonak, @my, Andrew Tamburin, Austin IMC, Brad Will, Brandon Jourdan, Brent, Chris Lugo, David Redmon (www.calleymedia.org), Dawn Zuppelli, Erin Siegal, “Evkha” Renee Lopez, 4N6, Francine Cavanaugh, Ioka, ItlBOK?, Jessica Lawrence, Justin Rohde, Kevin Brown, Kevin Hart, Lotus, Michael Green, Roger Hill, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sean McDuffy?, Sharpie, Sonya Angelica, Stretched-out Prince, Sue Stevens, Svea Eppler, Thomas Yun, Tish, Wes Brain, Zulah, David Meieran, Jay Finneburgh

and dozens of anonymous video activists

Music:

Adams Wood: “Garden Theme”

Against Me! “We Laugh At Danger (And Break All the Rules)”

Alex Theory: “Sample Platter track 7”

Antibalas: “Uprising”

Billy Bragg: “No Power Without Accountability”

Fela Anikupalo-Kuti

La Plataforma (Argentina): “No Al ALCA,” “Corte de Ruta,” “Think,” “Bud Dub” “Botana”

Thievery Corporation: “IIlumination”

Photograhy: Bradley, Santa Cruz Indymedia

Voice overs by: Patrick Reinsborough (Infowar) Halima? (False Dichotomies) Brandon Jourdan (False Dichotomies)

Korean subtitles by: The Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, MediACT

Thanks to:

calleymedia.org Carlos Chiapas Indymedia Citizens Trade Campaign Coalition of Immokalee Workers David Meieran Freespeech TV indybay.org Lake Worth Global Justice Miami Activist Defense Miami Workers Center Mountain Eye Media NYC Indymedia Power U Center for Social Change Rochester Indymedia Rosalyn Snead saveourcivilliberties.org stopftaa.org Sushma Sheth Thelma Brown therootcause.org Video Activist Network Waffle Whispered Media

Jordan Feder (1980-2003)

No thanks to:

Timoney

copyleft under the creative commons noncommercial, attribution, share-alike license, 2004.

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