I'm putting together a voter info event for this Sunday the 31st and I need some help organizing and to get the word out.
I've booked a union hall near the Ohio State campus
We will be a showing most if not all of the films from www.filmstoseebeforeyouvote.org listed below.
I need lots of help to get flyers done and distributed!!
(I have not set the time for the event yet but I'm thinking 1-10pm Sunday).
I'm also hoping maybe someone will be willing to come to an organizational/planning meeting Tuesday or Wednesday evening. Will you pass this along to anyone who may be willing to help me out.
I'd like very much to find experts to lead discussions following these films. Please help me with this project if you have any time.
thanks
ABOUT BAGHDAD
Directed by InCounter Productions. 90 minutes, 2004
In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now occupation.
THE GROUND TRUTH
Directed by Patricia Foulkrod, 29 minutes, 2004
This documentary project is the ongoing story of American soldiers involved in a war in Iraq and Afghanistan that is largely invisible to the American public. Congress and the American people are invited to to bear witness to these soldiers and their families, and to consider the human cost of war above all else.
OUTFOXED
Directed by Robert Greenwald, 75 minutes, 2004
E xamines 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.
SIXTY CAMERAS AGAINST THE WAR
Directed by Julie Talen, 25 minutes, 2004
On February 15, 2003, every major city on the planet protested the impending war in Iraq. Sixty Cameras uses footage shot simultaneously by different videographers to chronicle the powerful response in New York City.
SOLDIER'S PAY
Directed by David O. Russell, Juan Carlos Zaldivar, Tricia Regan, 35 min. 2004
Interviews with American soldiers about the 2004 war in Iraq, including Matt Novak, who was discharged for speaking out against certain aspects of the war. The documentary also includes interviews with Iraqi refugees who acted as extras in the film Three Kings.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: THE WAR ON OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES
Written & Directed by Nonny de la Peña, 67 minutes, 2004
Unconstitutional explores how the Patriot Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans. The Patriot Act, which was passed just 45 days after September 11 with virtually no debate, is being met with a significant grassroots groundswell from across the political spectrum.
UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ
Directed by Robert Greenwald, 56 minutes, 2003
Deconstructing the Bush administration's case for war through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials, foreign service experts, and U.N. weapons inspectors -- including a former CIA director, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President's Bush's Secretary of the Army. Their analyses and conclusions are sobering, and often disturbing, regardless of one's political affiliations.
UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Directed by Joan Sekler and Richard Ray Perez, 57 minutes, 2002
The riveting story of the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America.
VOTING IN AMERICA
Produced by Laura Harrison & Charlotte Lagarde, 70 minutes, 2004
A collection of nine short films that explore voter apathy, redistricting in Texas, a "get out the vote" campaign on a Navajo Reservation, the disenfranchisement of Americans with felony convictions, and more.