Coastside Peace will be showing progressive films, including Michael Moore’s groundbreaking Fahrenheit 911, on 3 upcoming Friday nights in October. All showings will be held at the Johnston House Ocean Shore Depot building at 800 Higgins Canyon Rd, near the South end of Main Street, 1/4 mile up on the right. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.
From the press release:
Friday October 8th 8:00 PM
Outfoxed (2004, 77minutes) - Exposes in detail how the “fair and balanced” cable network is systematically structured to be a right wing propaganda machine. Includes internal documents and interviews with former employees that clearly show how the political spin is dictated from the top, and examines what this means for informed democracy in our country.
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004, 70 minutes) - Master investigative reporter Greg Palast, shows the smoking gun evidence in many of the hidden stories of the Bush family. He shows clearly the nature of the intentional election fraud in Florida, the coverup of George Bush’s military desertion, and how the Bush family’s relationship with the Saudis has led to a hands-off order regarding CIA and FBI investigations of Bin Laden and other key Saudi terrorists and terror financiers.
Friday October 22th 7:30 PM - Especially for young adults!
Iron Jawed Angels (2004, 123 minutes) - An HBO film starring Hillary Swank, Angelica Huston, Frances O’Connor and Julia Ormond in a fictional account of the true story of a small group of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The film shows how these activists dared to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women’s voting rights in 1920, and how they were beaten and force fed by the police for it. It’s an inspiration to all and an especially poignant wake-up for the 22 million young women who did not vote in the 2000 election.
Military Myths (2001, 28 minutes) - Young people today are smacked with military advertisements and recruiters coming into their schools and communities offering sign-up bonuses, money for education, and job training. MILITARY MYTHS takes a critical look at the military’s promises. The producers contrast media representations of war and military life with the personal experiences of veterans who have gone to war. Interviews with activists and students are also presented along with statistics from the Veterans Administration, CCCO, SLDN, and recent Pentagon studies that lay clear the myths of military life.
Friday October 29th 7:30 PM
Fahrenheit 911 (2004, 122 minutes) - What can we say--it was the progressive media event of the year and a defining moment in the modern resurgence of film as an alternative channel for news, perspective and informed commentary. Michael Moore’s 911 leaves you alternating between belly laughs, jaw-clenched anger and tears of empathy as he shows a side of Bush’s America never seen through the carefully controlled image machine of the corporate media.
