Weaving Community
A close look at what people are doing to create a different kind of world, Weaving Community is a window into the lives of activists in Memphis, TN. Weaving Community documents three projects at varying stages of their existence: Food Not Bombs, Revolutions Community Bicycle Innitiative, and the deCleyre Cooperative. See it May 3, 2003 at the First Congo Arthouse Theater.
Trailer runtime, size: 3'21, 5.1 MB
"More important than any other resource is the raw awareness that you have the power to change the world. �This is the hardest one to develop and share, and the most essential. It doesn'�t help to give your endorsement to political representatives, social programs, or radical ideologies when the fundamental problem is that you don�t know your own strength.
Self-determination begins and ends with your initiatives and actions, whether you live under a totalitarian regime or the canopy of a rain forest. It must be established on a daily basis, by acting back on the world that acts upon you�whether that means calling in sick to work on a sunny day, starting a neighborhood garden with your friends, or toppling a government. You cannot make a revolution that distributes power equally except by learning firsthand how to exercise and share power�and that exercising and sharing, on any scale, is itself the ongoing, never-concluded project of revolution.
What you do today is itself the extent of that revolution, its limits and its triumph." -- Harbinger Issue 4, 2002
Produced and edited by: Denny Henke
Cinematography by: Denny Henke, Jeff Peel
a Memphis Digital Arts Co-operative Production with: Sasha Barr, Peter Brinson, Casey Bryant, Jessica Buttermore, Sue Cook, Cheryl Cornish, April Hale, Denny Henke, Julia Hicks, Tammy Jo O'Neil, Ariel Roads, Amanda, Katie, Anthony Siricusa, Jessica Sumner, S. Wheeler, and more to come...
