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"The Corporation" comes to town! |
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by Colleen
Email: colleencook7 (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
21 Aug 2004
Modified: 06:13:23 PM |
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Over the summer, Boardman's Art Theatre brought the C-U area Fahrenheit 9/11 when our government and big business tried to suppress it and other theater chains banned it. In a time when media is controlled by the powerful few that determine what we can watch and what will be released to the masses, we must support the independent film movement and let our voice be heard against corporate control of media. |
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Since opening under new management last year, Boardman’s Art Theatre has been committed to providing the Champaign-Urbana area with the finest foreign and independent films. Over the summer, the theatre brought our area "Fahrenheit 9/11" when our government and big business tried to suppress it and other theater chains banned it. In a time when media is controlled by the powerful few that determine what we can watch and what will be released to the masses, we must support the independent film movement and let our voice be heard against corporate control of media.
In addition to "Fahrenheit 9/11", the Art Theatre has fought to bring to the C-U area controversial documentaries on sensitive subjects like military’s involvement with the international news media and the lasting effects of big business on our society. Over the next two weeks, the Art Theatre will be screening three very important films- “Control Room”, “The Corporation”, and “The Battle of Algiers”. Please support the theatre as it brings our community much needed diversity in filmmaking.
Thank you,
Colleen,
UCIMC Video Group
For more information on the films, please visit
http://www.boardmansarttheatre.com
“The Corporation” now showing through Sept. 2nd. IMCistas this is your film! Go see it. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Everyone needs to see this!!!!
Summary: "The Corporation" is resonating with audiences all over the world. The feature documentary analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response. Based on Bakan's book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power", the film has been generating popular support from street level to the boardrooms of the Corporate Social Responsibility movement.
Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions.
Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn and many others, THE CORPORATION charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.
Spread the word-
http://www.thecorporation.com/about/moreonhelping.php
“Control Room” now showing through Thursday, August 26th
Summary:
"Control Room", a view inside Al Jazeera's network. It neatly bridges the gap between timeless and timely; timeless because it locates itself in the midst of the ongoing cultural clash between Western and Arab worlds, timely because it does so through the prism of satellite television's impact on how viewers receive information worldwide from news providers, driven by the patriotism of their audiences, to Army information officers, driven by military objectives. "Control Room" is a seminal documentary that explores how truth is gathered, presented, and ultimately created by those who deliver it.
“The Battle of Algiers” – Starts Friday, August 27th. A SPECIAL RE-RELEASE...ONE WEEK ONLY! This is a new print, with new, more literal translations of the Arabic language portions.
Summary:
New York Times, Michael T. Kaufman's 'Film Studies': "Challenged by terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare in Iraq, the Pentagon recently held a screening of "The Battle of Algiers," the film that in the late 1960's was required viewing and something of a teaching tool for radicalized Americans and revolutionary wannabes opposing the Vietnam War...If indeed the government is currently analyzing or even weighing the tactical choices reflected in "The Battle of Algiers," presumably that is being done at a higher level of secrecy than an open discussion following a screening of the Pontecorvo film. Still, by showing the movie within the Pentagon and by announcing that publicly, somebody seems to be raising issues that have remained obscure throughout the war against terror." |
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See also:
http://www.boardmansarttheatre.com
http://www.thecorporation.com/
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Re: "The Corporation" comes to town! |
by jandurl@insightbb.com
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Current rating: 0
21 Aug 2004
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I enjoyed watching the Corporation last night and it is nice to see some information about timely fims being played at the ART at IMC website. Please keeping posting this type of information for the public. Thanks for offering our community a great series of documentaries these past several months.
Durl Kruse |
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A must see |
by Clint Popetz
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22 Aug 2004
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I saw this on Friday night, and I highly recommend it. It's well thought out, and surprisingly positive and upbeat, which is tough to do with the subject matter at hand. I came away feeling really hopeful.
We really need people to come out and support the New Art showing these type of films...the owner is by no means left-leaning; he's showing these films because we've shown there to be a market demand, and he'll stop if people don't turn out. |
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Intolerance |
by Kim Antieau
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Current rating: 0
23 Aug 2004
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Members of our peace group want to know what we should do next to end the war in Iraq. Burnout is the prevalent feeling, along with a lack of creativity. What can we do that will work? Many believe massive protests are in order. Others don't want to appear to be too radical. One woman repeats over and over, "I donÂąt want people to think IÂąve gone off the deep end." I wonder what that means. Why should it matter what people think of her? Besides, as a country we may have already gone off that deep end, although opinions disagree on the cause of this dive.
Some people, like former journalist John Stossel, claim they know exactly what's wrong with this country: it's people like my best friend Linda who is a single mother with a 17 year old daughter‹and metastasized breast cancer. She can¹t work because she¹s ill, so she doesn¹t have medical insurance. Every month she has to beg, borrow, and appeal to get her medicines and chemotherapy. But she does get a little help from her government--after decades of paying taxes into the system. While Halliburton and others benefit from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the administration racks up a huge deficit, disembowels all environmental regulations, and makes numerous end runs around the constitution with little or no protests from the opposition, people say what¹s bringing the United States to its knees are those like my friend who are on government assistance.
Others are certain the trouble with the United States is big business. This argument makes more sense to me. I saw the movie The Corporation last week. Corporations are now legally persons; what would happen if corporations were psychoanalyzed as though they were people? Using standard psychological tests, it was determined these corporations were psychopaths. Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, who now believes he and his company and other companies were not behaving in a way that was sustainable for the planet, chided other executives for being "plunderers."
I watched as the diagnosis of psychopath was made clear through illustration after illustration of the environmental, social, and economic damage done by corporations in the name of profit. During most of the movie, I wanted to stand up and scream. Since I was a child, I have felt as though a war was being waged against our environment. As I watched the movie, I wondered how all these people could sit in the movie theater and do nothing about what was happening to our planet. I wanted to scream because of my own ineffectiveness, too. I drove to the movie theater in a car - the cause of more pollution, illness, and death than probably any other invention on the planet.
Yet as I watched and listened to the litany of horrors perpetrated by these corporations I began to grow restless. Yes, corporations commit terrible atrocities, but saying that feels like saying "the war on terror." It's such a nebulous expression: meaningless in its vagueness. The terrible things done by "corporations" are really done by people. I kept thinking of Charlton Heston in Soylent Green crying, "Soylent Green is people!" I wanted to stand up and scream, "Corporations are people!"
We tolerate war and social injustice in our country, our businesses, and in our own communities every day. In my county and in nearly every county in the United States on every single day (usually from March through October) pesticides are sprayed on our roadsides, in the air, and across fields and orchards. Much of the air in the United States has traces of pesticides in it. Migrant workers go into these fields and orchards and are more directly exposed to these toxic chemicals while they pick our food.
Nearly every single public school in the United States uses pesticides inside and outside their buildings. Many of these pesticides are neurotoxins which are not only harmful to "pests" but to children. When I bring this issue up with my friends (who are mostly progressives) and ask why they don't talk with the school administration to stop this practice, they shrug and say they don't want to be "one of those parents." I wonder what they mean. What kind parents? Parents who protect their children?
"The people" could stop this war on the environment and all the wars on this planet. But they don't. We don't. We could begin by stopping injustices in our own communities. Many of us are lone "warriors," trying to act-up and change things on our own. Often when we act alone, the establishment sneers at us. I've gone to the schools where I live to try to get them to stop using pesticides, and I am the only voice. What if every parent said, "Stop"? Or even a group of parents? The school administration would end these harmful practices in a heartbeat.
This is true with so many local issues. If we made our voices heard, we could create and live in the communities we long for. "No, we won't do this or that in our town because it is harmful to the Earth and her creatures, to the air, the water, the people. Yes, all is sacred to us, and we will not tolerate war and profiteering." Our local beliefs would then extend beyond our communities.
I want to stop the war in Iraq. I want to stop wars everywhere. But I want to live in a community where pillaging and plundering are not tolerated on any level: socially or environmentally. If we cannot stop tolerating war HERE in our own communities, how effective are we going to be telling our politicians to stop war over THERE? The politicians are emulating us and what we tolerate in our own communities. I think it is about time for a little war intolerance.
Kim Antieau's latest novel, Coyote Cowgirl, is out in trade paperback. Her weblog is at: http://www.furiousspinner.com Her website is at: http://www.kimantieau.com |
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