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Documentary Screening of Total Denial [Fundraiser for FACES and EarthRights International]
Film screening of Total Denial -
Filipino and American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES) hosts this fundraising screening to raise funds for FACES and EarthRights International (ERI), as ERI gears up for their upcoming lawsuit Wiwa vs Royal Dutch Shell.
Total Denial chronicles a historical lawsuit: 15 villagers from the jungle of Burma sued a leading oil corporation, California-based Unocal, for human rights abuses. These villagers suffered a variety of human rights violations at the hands of Burmese army units that were securing the pipeline route and took the case to the US courts. After 10 years of fierce legal battles, the impossible victory.
In their review, The New York times says In Total Denial, Milena Kanevas incisive look at Myanmar, one thing is unmistakable: Its central figure, Ka Hsaw Wa, is the stuff heroes are made of. Ethnic Karen, Ka Hsaw Wa, is one of the leaders of the students movement for democracy in Burma in 1988. He has been hiding in the jungle for more than 7 years. Wanted by the secret police in Burma and Thailand, Ka Hsaw Wa has gathered evidence of thousands of victims of human rights and environmental abuses. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Award in 1999 for his work.
In 1995 with co-founder of Earth Rights International Katie Redford, later his wife, they brought this precedent setting lawsuit in an American court. The Los Angeles Times says Without portraying corporate culture as purposefully evil, Kaneva shines a spotlight on what happens when a willful blind-eye is turned to abuses committed in the name of business.
Total Denial has been awarded the special prize for Human Rights of President Vaclav Havel during the One World Festival in Prague (2006).
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LocationLa Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
United States
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