YOUR COMPREHENSIVE
‘ALL THE TIME YOU'RE WONDERING HOW ANYONE CAN FIX ALL THIS BECAUSE OF ALL THE CORRUPTION'
[\royyo is a glcat model of where it could be heading. 'I‘hey haye Arab refugees in this Village. where three years ago tlte saute tribe was stealing their children and selling them as slayes. They‘re welcoming these Arabs into their community and looking alter them and saying: ‘We are drawing a line here in the sand. Leave the war behind us and let‘s look to the future.‘ This particular Village. because it’s run by quite a progressive committee. is being run in a really good way.
There‘s a little place called Rumro. They We not had water. they ‘ye had to tray el three or tour . hours there and three or four hours back just to get two buckets of water for their household. Now. with the Band Aid money. they‘ve got water in their own little y illage. :11th what happens is the Village builds itsell‘ up around the well and you get people moying in. Ilay'ing water is so important; it's like oil. It gets the machinery and communities moying again. A small well makes more iii a dill'erencc than you'd think. Before I went out I didn‘t realise how desperate the situation was as tar as water and I‘ood goes.
All the time you‘re just thinking. how cart
anyone fix all this. because there‘s a lot of
corruption. In Sudan. there‘s the ongoing problem of the northern gangs. I think political pressure is the thing that has to take oyer now because you can drop money or aid. but il’the government isn’t willing to help its own people then it's all worth nothing. (‘ancelling the debt is another concern. becatlse on the political Ieyel you‘re just going to be lining the pockets of these gangsters who are not going to let the people who really need that debt reliel‘ see it. It's crazy. Africa‘s the tnost ama/ing place I think he ever been but it seems to be the back alley ol the world.
I had to do some diary stul‘l‘ for the documentary. and on the last night I was thinking. it aliens landed on liarth they would snub America and Britain. They’d want to meet the Al‘rican people. because they’d think they were more adyanccd than its because they"d learned to Iiye so simply. They would look at its and think. you'ye got all these gadgets that you
rely on. Il’yoii took one of those things away »— it
you hid eyeryone‘s leleyisions 7- people wouldn’t know w hat to do and w e‘d just fall to pieces. You come back from Alrica and you think these people hate got an amazing sense of family. their culture‘s really strong. their communities are really. really strong. btit they don’t haye any food or water. But that can be helped.
It would be good to have some kind of trade oil with Alil'lt‘il. ili you could get some kind of
community or learn something from the way that they live. We hay‘e this image of the star\ ing kids in Iithiopia. wee skinny w'eans with the clteekbones and the bulging eyes arid the big bellies. Well. they look at its as though our society ‘s shagged. I spoke to this guy and basically he said: ‘You haye no respect for your elders. the family's not important. This world that you Iiye in is crumbling around you.‘ And I was like: ‘.\1ate. I‘y'e got to agree with you.‘
Fran in Sudan, Scottish, Tue 5 Jul, 7.30pm.
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information about transport from Edinburgh contact 07891 746184Anti-war groups. trade unions. anti-capitalists. environmentalists and community organisations will march side by side hoping to reach the gates of Gleneagles Hotel to vent anger at war. occupation. corporate globalisation, poverty and environmental devastation. The march will be followed by a mass rally. Police are currently recommending a static rally around Auchterarder. limited to 5000 people. though the G8 organisers are still hoping for a larger crowd. See www.g8alternatives.org.uk and www.tayside.police.uk/g8
FILM
The Miami Model Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road. 228 2688. 6.15pm. Indymedia's hard- hitting documentary reveals how opposition
to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). set up by trade ministers from 34 countries
in Miami in November 2003, was met by brutality.
MUSIC
Live8: The Long Walk To Justice Murrayfield Stadium. A host of bands and celebrity speakers WIII be taking to the stage for this ‘part rally, part party’. For more information, see feature. page 22.
VISUAL ART
Looking Both Ways See Thursday 23.
The Forgotten Women See Monday 27.
Thursday 7 July
FILM
McLibel: No Worlds Collide Filn‘ihOiise. 88 Lothian Road. 228 2688. 6pm. Director Franny Armstrong and star Helen Steel introduce this dOCumentary about the 'McLibel Two'.
VISUAL ART
Looking Both Ways See Thursday 23.
The Forgotten Women See Monday 27.
in Glasgow
Wednesday 22
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
Colombian Trade Unionist Tour Reniield St. Stephen's. Bath Street. 7.30pm. Free. See Edinburgh, Thu 23.
Thursday 23
THEATRE
Where’s the Power? The Arches. 253 Argyle Street, 565 1023. 7.30pm. C7 (535). See Edinburgh. Thu 23 Jun.
Friday 24
THEATRE
Where‘s the Power? The Arches. 253 Argyle Street. 565 1023. 7.30pm. 27 (53.5). See Edinburgh, Thu 23 Jill].
Saturday 25
THEATRE
Where’s the Power? The Arches. 253 Argyle Street. 565 1023. 7.30pm. 137 ($35). See Edinburgh, Thu 23 Jun.
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