<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><i><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Please spread the word about this event to all those at MIT or in the Cambridge, MA area interested in healthcare related issues, and looking for a free screening of Michael Moore's documentary!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Best,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Xaq</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div>Sicko</i></b><br>2007 (PG) 113 minutes<br> <b> Friday, November 9 at 7:00 and **10:30** pm in 26-1!
00</b><br> Sunday, November 11 at 7:00 pm in 26-100<div><br>The November 9 showings of this film are <b>FREE</b> to the MIT Community - sponsored by the <b>Technology and Culture Forum</b>, the <b>Lecture Steering Committee</b>, and the <b>Large Events Fund</b>.<br><br></div><div>Join us after the 7pm show on November 9 for a special talk by STS <b>Professor David Jones</b>, who will discuss the critical reception of <i>Sicko</i>, situating the film in current and ongoing policy debates about<br>national healthcare. <br></div><div><br>"America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry expose. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that <br>places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on how our nation's medical care syste!
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duals and families who have had their lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even a legitimate<br>discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it's simply impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her mother's health insurance wasn't accepted at a nearby hospital. Moore smartly allows this and other stories to be told with little or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and deep sadness."<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-- [<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/">www.rottentomatoes.com</a>]<br><br>"A persuasive piece of propaganda because it is as entertaining and funny as it is heart-rending and disturbing." -- Jeffrey Westhoff, _Northwest Herald_.<br><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>