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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>a Scalding Takedown on
Tort Reform</b><br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Thursday, Dec
15th, in Cambridge [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-111215-hotcoffee.pdf">please
download & distribute flyer</a>]<br>
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In 1992, a 79-year-old </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">Albuquerque woman, </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Stella Liebeck, spilled a scalding cup of
McDonald's coffee on herself, suffering third-degree burns and
years of expensive medical treatments that led to her lawsuit that
had the whole country talking. </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Hot coffee - Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman
ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later,
its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case.
It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have
taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair
rendition of the facts? </font><br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><b>Hot Coffee</b></i>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">examines the real
story behind Stella's case along with three other cases of people
seeking justice - for a fascinating look at the tort-reform
movement and its impact on our civil-justice system. This film </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">reveals what really happened
to Stella Liebeck, while exploring how and why the case garnered
so much media attention, who funded the effort and to what end.
After seeing this film, you will decide who really profited from
spilling hot coffee.</font><br>
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<i><b>Hot Coffee</b></i> attempts to offset the disinformation
campaign produced by giant corporations. Tort reform and medical
malpractice caps are hot button political topics. There's such a
huge corporate-funded marketing campaign behind tort reform that
few people understand the reality: It mostly benefits corporations
at the expense of taking away a jury's right to make a decision. <br>
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Watch and share in the outrage.<br>
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"<i>It may be hard to understand why tort reform is even on the
national agenda at a time when insurance industry profits are
booming, tort filings are declining, only 2 percent of injured
people sue for compensation, punitive damages are rarely
awarded, liability insurance costs for businesses are minuscule,
... and premium-gouging underwriting practices of the insurance
industry have been widely exposed.</i>'' ~ Center for Justice
and Democracy, 2004<br>
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"<i>I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a
fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize
power in the United States.</i>" ~Todd Gitlin<br>
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"<i>Eye-opening indictment of the way big business spins the media</i>."
~Variety<br>
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"<i>Stunning debut - Sends audiences out of the theater thinking
in a brand new way.</i>" ~Washington Post<b><br>
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When/where</b><br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rule19.org/videos/">rule19.org/videos</a><br>
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Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!<br>
free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.<br>
[donations are accepted]<br>
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"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.</i>"
~ Malcolm X<br>
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<b>UPandOUT film series</b> - see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/videos/">rule19.org/videos</a><br>
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Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars
- on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, So America, etc etc - for
billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the
loss of liberty and civil rights... <br>
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