[NEohioPAL]FREE Screening / FILMS FOR THE NEW DEMOCRACY / Saturday Oct 23rd

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ROOFTOP FILMS and CLAMOR MAGAZINE PRESENT
FILMS FOR THE NEW DEMOCRACY
<http://www.rooftopfilms.com/show_100704.html>

Saturday, October 23, 2004, 9 PM
* ASTERISK * Gallery
2393 Professor Street, Tremont

Independent Media can change the world. That’s why Rooftop Films and Clamor 
magazine are traveling through the election battleground, presenting new, 
independent films about the pressing issues facing America on November 2 and 
beyond. Here are the stories of ordinary individuals, not scheming politicos 
— the voices of the people, not the corporations. And they are not fair and 
balanced; these filmmakers have a point of view. They’ve found something 
beautiful that they want to celebrate. or something terrible they want to 
change. With these films, you’ll be taken from the streets of New York, 
through the farms of Iowa, to the homes and hospitals of Baghdad, as you 
consider how you want your democracy to look.

The tour is traveling the Midwest. For up-to-the-minute information about 
tour dates and locations, please visit Clamor magazine’s tour page: 
<http://www.clamormagazine.org/tour/>

Tour Highlights include…

Getting Through to the President (Sarah and Emily Kunstler, 9:00)
For three days, at one Greenwich Village payphone, hundreds of New Yorkers 
tried to get through to the President. From May 5th trough the 8th The 
Documentary Campaign commandeered a payphone in Washington Square Park to 
record telephone calls made to the White House. With both humor and 
sincerity, New Yorkers fed quarters into a payphone and braved busy signals 
and excessive hold times to get their voices heard on topics such as the 
environment, healthcare, gay marriage, the war in Iraq, and much more.

Suckers (Bryan Boyce, 0:30)
Many on the political left feel that Dubya does nothing but dissemble, but 
Bryan Boyce has caught him telling the truth at least once.

Republican Thugs (Matt Lenski and Sam Marks 1:00)
Shit's Perfect. Mission Accomplished.

G.I. Joe PSAs (Eric Fensler, various 0:30 - 1:30)
Eric Fensler re-edits and overdubs some all too American 80s cartoons, 
twisting and flipping the advice handed out by the boys and girls in 
uniform.

FTAA: Info War (New York Independent Media Center, 12:00)
You would think that if there were lots of footage of the Miami police 
department attacking protestors at the 2003 meeting of the Free Trade Area 
of the Americas that the mainstream media would think it was at least worth 
looking at. And you would expect that the press would be intrigued if 
homeless men testified on video that Miami police had told encouraged them 
to attack activists and steal their cameras. But you'd be wrong.

The Real Face of Occupation (Deep Dish Television, 17:00)
Everyone in the world gets to see what America does in Iraq, except for 
Americans. Deep Dish Television and their collaborators don't believe that 
this should be so, so they went out and shot videos in the heart of the 
occupation, following the troops on housing raids, visiting the tattered 
offices of independent newspapers, and listening to the concerns of citizens 
that have to walk through sewage overflow every day just to get down the 
street. (This is a shortened version of the original 28-minute film.)

AC-130 Gunship (Anonymous 8:00)
According to the US Air Force, the AC-130 Gunship, a war plane known as 
Spectre, "uses video cameras, infrared and radar sensors to find and track 
targets on the ground and distinguish them from friendly forces." In this 
anonymous video posted to the web, it's the pilots themselves who seem to 
have trouble distinguishing between a mosque and a military target.

Sunset Strip (Pete Bergeron 2:00)
"There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear." Now it 
is.