[imc-wellington] Windymedia Film Night - Sunday 30 March

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

Correction: should be 7.30 pm start (poster on Aotearoa Indymedia notice is
incorrect)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:29:50 +1200, <ksimpson at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> (apologies for cross-posting)
> 
> You are invited to a Wellington Indymedia Collective film night.
> 
> We will show:
> 
> OUTFOXED - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
> 
> followed by
> 
> BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
> the cause and effects of Hurricane Katrina
> 
> 128 Abel Smith Street
> Sunday 30 March, 7 pm
> 
> Admission by koha
> 
> Further details below:
> 
> BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
> The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans
> 
> Palast Productions 2006     Running time: 30 minutes
> 
> www.gregpalast.com
> 
> August 29th 2006 marked the one year anniversary of the devastation in
New
> Orleans caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This Special Greg
> Palast Report brings you exclusive footage and the stories you won’t
> hear
> on the other networks — the hidden political agendas and the suppressed
> eyewitness reports.
> 
> In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to
> investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in
> 2005. On his visit, he discovers that the population of New Orleans is
> miniscule, the reconstruction sparse, suicide rates are climbing, and
many
> have not, nor know how to, return to the city that care forgot. He
> examines
> why residents had to leave, what really caused the flood and why they
> aren’t returning.
> 
> “If the mass media were doing the type of investigative reporting that
> you can see and hear in Greg Palast’s “Big Easy to Big Empty” the
> residents of New Orleans would be getting the help they need. Palast’s
> reporting reveals the utter disregard for the people of this city and the
> criminal lack of common sense or human decency in addressing the
aftermath
> of Katrina. Please watch this DVD and share it with your friends, your
> family, your place of worship- with everyone!”
> 
> In the struggle for peace and justice,
> 
> Malik Rahim
> 
> 
> OUTFOXED
> Director/producer: Robert Greenwald   2006      Running Time: 77 minutes
> 
> www.outfoxed.org/
> 
> “Outfoxed” examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox
> News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news.
> This
> film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of
> ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to
> know.
> 
> The film explores Murdoch’s burgeoning kingdom and the impact on
society
> when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.
> 
> Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press),
> Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital
> Democracy)
> and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the
story
> of Fox News and its effect on society.
> 
> This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers,
> reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it’s like to work for
Fox
> News.  These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push
> a
> “right-wing” point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen
> to
> remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one
> employee said “There’s no sense of integrity as far as having a line
> that can't be crossed.”
> 
> Director/Producer Robert Greenwald has produced and/or directed 53
> television movies, mini-series and features. He is the director of Iraq
> for
> Sale: The War Profiteers, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,
Uncovered:
> The Iraq War and the Executive Producer of the UN series - Unprecedented,
> Uncovered and Unconstitutional. His new media company, Brave New Films,
> recently distributed The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress and
produced
> two new TV series - the “ACLU Freedom Files” and “The Sierra Club
> Chronicles” – which can be seen on Link TV and via the internet.