[act-ma] Thursday 11/29: "We're Not Broke" - Free UPandOUT screening [IPS expert on hand for Q&A; DVDs for sale - a PERFECT XMAS gift!] (locals have cameo appearances :-)
pf soto
pfsoto at mynas.com
Mon Nov 26 15:05:21 PST 2012
*Locals make cameo appearances :-) See animated graphic below*
Please *RSVP here on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/events/467800359928395/>* and please
forward widely.
*NOTE: A guest speaker ("an expert from the film, senior scholar at
Institute for Policy Studies") will be on hand for Q&A*.
A trailer for the movie is available at
*http://www.werenotbrokemovie.com*
**
*/<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-121129-Were-Not-Broke.pdf>/*We're
Not Broke
An exposé into the secret world of corporate tax dodging
Thursday, November 29 in Cambridge [please download distribute & flyer
<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-121129-Were-Not-Broke.pdf>]
*NOTE: A special, extra screening **for the xmas holidays;
An expert in the film - from the Institute for Policy Studies [IPS] -
will be on hand for Q&A and will have DVDs available for sale. The
PERFECT XMAS gift!*
*WE'RE NOT BROKE* is an exposé into the secret world of corporate tax
dodging. By booking profits offshore that should really be accounted for
in America, multinational corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank of
America are cheating our country out of an estimated $100 billion a
year. All the while, America is in the grip of a tremendous recession,
the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression.
Lawmakers' common cry of "We're Broke!" echoes in Washington, D.C. and
across the mainstream media as our elected officials slash budgets, lay
off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters---crumbling the country's
social fabric and leaving many people scrambling to survive.
While corporate tax avoidance has been accelerating for the past decade,
and astronomical amounts of money have been lost to the U.S. Treasury,
it has gone mostly unnoticed by the media and the general public. That
changed in early 2011, when a small group of Americans, inspired by
protests in the United Kingdom, formed a fledgling grassroots movement
called US Uncut. Their goal seemed simple: Call out corporate tax
dodgers and make them pay their fair share.
*WE'RE NOT BROKE* interweaves the stories of seven US Uncut activists
from across the nation: Carl Gibson, a 24-year-old college graduate from
Jackson, Mississippi who can't find gainful employment; Joanne Gifford,
a California mom and unemployed high school teacher; Jim Coleman, the
owner of a Chicago heating and air conditioning company who is watching
his profession vanish with the sinking economy; Musician Chris Priest,
24, who laments the days when his postman grandfather could
singlehandedly support a family of eight; Kira Elliot, 29, a personal
trainer and Mary Kay rep. who sees her middle class clients disappear as
they tighten their belts; Bobbie Arrington, a 35-year-old social worker
and graduate student who's dealing with cuts to the hospital where she
sees clients; and Ryan Clayton, a charismatic 30-year-old media analyst
from Washington, D.C. who, once he learned that he paid more taxes than
multibillion-dollar corporations, began planning what he was sure was a
coming revolution.
*WE'RE NOT BROKE* follows the US Uncut activists to the streets as they
use creative activism to protest Bank of America, Apple and FedEx. All
the while, U.S. corporations continue making record profits, and then
pocket billions of dollars that should rightfully go back to the
American public. The tactics, their CEOs argue, are legal. But the laws
are passed using shady practices that move in concert with big campaign
contributions and millions in lobbying expenses. President Obama, while
having campaigned on the promise of closing offshore tax loopholes, has
done nothing of the kind. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue
to coddle corporations while slashing public services that affect
everyone else.
Over the summer of 2011, Microsoft and Apple led a massive lobbying
effort they called /The Win America Campaign/ to get congress to give
them a "tax holiday" on over a trillion dollars in profits they claimed
to have earned overseas. At the same time, sparks from the US Uncut
movement that began in the winter of 2011 helped flame growing feelings
of injustice among America's middle class. And in late September 2011,
many US Uncut members joined Occupy Wall Street, a new movement that
echoed their calls for an economically just America, and a government
un-tethered from corporate greed.
*When/where*
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,
entrance on Windsor
rule19.org/videos <http://rule19.org/videos>
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.
[donations are accepted]
"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X
*UPandOUT film series* - see rule19.org/videos <http://rule19.org/videos>
Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc
etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for
the loss of liberty and civil rights...
*Locals make cameo appearances :-)**
**Chuck Collins from IPS will be on site for Q&A*
/"The truly infuriating doc about how US corporations cycle their
profits out of the country, hiding them routinely in offshore accounts
or in their Irish subsidiaries, so as to avoid paying any US taxes
whatsoever -- and doing so in collusion with their hired hands in
Congress...The news is bittersweet////and the lessons are timely./" ---
Namoi Wolf, The Guardian
"/If you suspected corporations were getting away with tax-murder, you
were right---but what's great about 'We're Not Broke' is how thoroughly
it enumerates the crimes, like a prosecution setting out its case. Some
of the facts assembled are truly mind-bending/." --- Charles Lyons,
Indiewire
/"Kicking assets and taking names, 'We're Not Broke' gets in the face of
deficit hawks and budget////cutters with a well-researched, brightly
presented and provocative argument that the U.S. isn't////overtaxed and
profligate, but rather a paradise for corporate tax cheats/." --- John
Anderson, Variety
"/A masterfully compelling film---crisp, urgent, and thoughtful...Hayes
and Bruce have provided a////great public service by firing out a
devastating opening salvo. It's a clarion call for change./" --- Michael
Dunaway, Paste Magazine
"/...essential viewing for those who want to understand just how we
ended up in this mess in the first////place./" --- Noah Nelson,
Huffington Post
'/W*e're Not Broke,* a smart muckraker by Karin Hayes and Victoria
Bruce, investigates the offshore////tax havens that allow publicly
bailed-out corporations to score record-setting profits/." --- Greg
Evans, Bloomberg News
"/Hayes and Bruce do a great job of tackling a big issue in a way that
should make logical sense to////most viewers, and help to contextualize
the same concerns that the Occupy movement have been////addressing.
What's more, as a call to action, the doc should infuriate its viewers,
which could lead to////needed real world reform./" --- Basil Tsiokos,
what (not) to doc
"/In the new documentary We're Not Broke directors/producers Karin Hayes
and Victoria Bruce////examine the income side of the equation with
surgical precision, laying bare the system of off-shore////tax havens,
massive corporate lobbying, and accounting trickery that transforms the
United States'////35% corporate tax into an effective 0%./" --- Noah
Nelson, Huffington Post
"/*We're Not Broke'* names and shames a number of major US corporations
which it says don't pay////their fair share of US taxes, including some
based on the Island./" --- Marina Mello, Royal Gazette Newspaper, Bermuda
"/Watch this movie and it will indicate why I support the spirit of OWS.
If not every action/."
Twitter @alecbaldwin
"/Breaking down accounting maneuvers such as 'transfer pricing'
transactions into simpleparts can be laborious even for business
professors. Yet through montage and spare but effective use of talking
heads, the filmmakers explain it all in short order that's as thrilling
as it is infuriating/." --- Ben Fulton, Salt Lake Tribune
"/Filmmakers Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce marshall the facts well,
lucidly explaining the complex tax laws that allow multinational
corporations to funnel profits out of the//
//United States and into tax-haven nations (such as the Cayman Islands,
Bermuda and Ireland) to avoid income taxes./" --- Sean P. Means, Salt
Lake Tribune
"/The power of people to assemble is equally central to another
documentary at this year's Festival, Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce's
'We're Not Broke,' which confronts issues of inequality in America's
economy./" --- Bridgette Bates, Sundance Online
"/The filmmakers deftly touch on the idea that taxes are seen only as a
burden, an oppression, rather than the price individuals and companies
pay for the right to live, work, be educated, and do business in this
country (rights which serve some populations more effectively than
others)"/ --- Gretchen Sisson, Bitch Magazine
"/*We're Not Broke*//" visually and expertly explains how 'offshore'
banking enables the richest 1 percent and several thousand transnational
corporations to avoid regulation, taxes, and accountability. . . .Unlike
other documentaries about corporate abuses, 'We're Not Broke' inspires
viewers to see themselves as agents of change/." --- Chuck Collins, IPS
"/In '*We're Not Broke*,' Hayes and Bruce, reveal shocking information
about the number of U.S. companies such as Google, Chevron, Citigroup,
Bank of America and GE who have made profits in the billions and managed
to not pay a dime in U.S. taxes. . . For taking on such an intricate
topic, they've done a fine job with 'We're Not Broke' and have created a
space where Americans can consider the effects that big business tax
evasion has on life in this country/." --- Jeanette D. Moses, SLUG Magazine
"/US multinationals make billions of dollars in profit but can pay no
federal tax due to 'legal but immoral' tax arrangements, according to a
scathing film at the Sundance film festival./"
--- Agence France-Presse
*"/WE'RE NOT BROKE /*/ranks no. 1 of top 5 documentary films getting
buzz at Sundance.//"/
--- Christian Science Monitor
/
//"Following a proto-Occupy movement called US Uncut and talking to
various economic experts, filmmakers Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce lay
out the problem and what demands we can make to our legislators to help
close these loopholes./" --- Bryce J. Renniger, Indiewire
"/This remarkable work is a chilling exposé that reveals the lack of
income tax paid by multi-billion dollar U.S. based corporations and the
growing discontent from citizens who are paying their fair share./" ---
Tammy McLeod, Agrigirl's Blog
"/*We're Not Broke* is different from other films because it not only
presents the problem; it presents what normal citizens can do to about
that problem/." --- Rachel Westrate, The Park City High School Prospector
"/. . . We might believe the oft-cited cry of politicians and pundits
that these cuts and policies are necessary because 'we're broke.' This
inspiring and revealing new investigatory documentary asks us to
reconsider this seemingly unquestionable claim/." --- Jason Dean,
Dane101.com
"/. . . documentary that should cut straight to the heart of Wisconsin
politics, showing the growing inequality gap and assault on public
employees. . ./" --- Rob Thomas, 77 Square
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