Two crusaders in one room! John Pilger and Julian Burnside combine to present ‘The War on Democracy’ at The Nova in Melbourne. Guests are warned to leave their barricades in the cloakroom.
“The film tells a universal story,” says Pilger, “analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror”.
The War on Democracy explores people’s disenchantment with democracy and demonstrates the brutal reality of America’s foreign policy of ‘spreading democracy’. Speaking exclusively to US government officials and ex-CIA personnel, he also travels with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, showing that true popular democracy and people power can be found among the poorest in Latin America whose grassroots movements are often ignored in the West. The War on Democracy is being called an inspiring and thought-provoking film, for it sees the world not through the eyes of the powerful, but through the hopes and dreams and extraordinary actions of ordinary people.
