[act-ma] Thurs 9/27 Norman Solomon Reading and Film Screening 7-9:30pm Community Church of Boston

[David Goodman]

COMMUNITY CHURCH of Boston
565 Boylston Street, Copley Sq., Boston, MA
617-266-6710

Thursday Sept. 27th, 2007
7-9:30pm

Suggested Donation: $10 - $15


NORMAN SOLOMON, Executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and
author of the books, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Are Spinning
Us to Death" and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's
Warfare State"  will screen the film documentary based on his book "WAR MADE
EASY." He will also read from his new book "Made Love, Got War" and answer
audience questions about war and peace and 40 years as a progressive
activist.

7:00 pm.
"War Made Easy" produced and directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp of
the Media Education Foundation, narrated by Sean Penn and featuring Norman
Solomon. www.warmadeeasythemovie.org

"War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year
pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United
States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor
and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of
official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing
in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically
disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential
administrations."

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation calls it ".a chilling and
persuasive movie." 

8:15 pm.
Norman Solomon reads from "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with
America's Warfare State" and reflects on 40 years of social, political and
media reform.  Followed by audience Q and A.

THIS EVENT IS A BENEFIT for Peace Abbey Radio, an effort to create a new
non-commercial radio station, news and public affairs production facility
and media education center in Massachusetts. For more information about
Peace Abbey Radio and this benefit event, contact Dave Goodman (617)
522-1446 or david at ibisradio.org.  The Peace Abbey / Life Experience School,
Inc. is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and all donations are tax
deductible to the fullest extent of the law.