{"id":2332,"date":"2011-09-20T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2011-09-20T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:57:23","slug":"free-film-screening-tonight-from-our-friendly-uwsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/09\/20\/free-film-screening-tonight-from-our-friendly-uwsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Free film screening tonight from our friendly UWSA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2331\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/archives\/2332\/please-vote-for-me\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2333\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/archives\/2332\/please-vote-for-me-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2333\" title=\"Please-vote-for-me\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Please-vote-for-me-499x730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe University of Winnipeg Politics Students Society, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theuwsa.ca\">the UWSA<\/a>, Gallery 1C03, and Cinema Politica PRESENT<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/event.php?eid=259413710756408\">PLEASE VOTE FOR ME<\/a><br \/>\nIs democracy a universal value that suits human nature? Do elections  inevitably lead to manipulation? Please Vote for Me is a portrait of a  society and a town in through a school, its children and its families.  Wuhan is a city about the size of London located in central China. It is  here that director Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in  democracy. A Grade 3 class at Evergreen Primary School has their first  encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class  Monitor. Eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted  position, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents. Elections  in China take place only within the Communist Party, but recently  millions of Chinese voted in their version of Pop Idol. The purpose of  Weijun Chen&#8217;s experiment is to determine how democracy would be received  if it came to China. PLEASE VOTE FOR ME is one of ten selected as part  of the Why Democracy? project, which saw interpretations of democracy by  10 film makers from around the world broadcast on 42 television  networks in October, 2007, to audiences of more than 300 million people  in nearly every country in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Winnipeg Politics Students Society, along with the UWSA, Gallery 1C03, and Cinema Politica PRESENT PLEASE VOTE FOR ME Is democracy a universal value that suits human nature? Do elections inevitably lead to manipulation? Please Vote for Me is a portrait of a society and a town in through a school, its children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cinema-politica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}