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

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

(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.