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<h1><b><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Not Broke</h1>
<h2>An exposé into the secret world of corporate tax
dodging</h2>
Thursday, November 29 in Cambridge [<a
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the xmas holidays; <br>
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<b>WE’RE NOT BROKE</b> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
<b>WE’RE NOT BROKE</b> 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.<br>
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<b>WE’RE NOT BROKE</b> 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.<br>
<br>
Over the summer of 2011, Microsoft and Apple led a
massive lobbying effort they called <i>The Win
America Campaign</i> 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.<br>
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<td valign="top" width="50%"><b>When/where</b><br>
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm<br>
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and
Windsor,<br>
entrance on Windsor<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." ~ Malcolm X<br>
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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
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<td valign="top" width="50%"><i>“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</i><i> </i><i>and
the lessons are timely.</i>” — Namoi Wolf, The
Guardian<br>
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"<i>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</i>.” — Charles Lyons,
Indiewire<br>
<br>
<i>“Kicking assets and taking names, ‘We’re Not
Broke’ gets in the face of deficit hawks and
budget</i><i> </i><i>cutters with a
well-researched, brightly presented and
provocative argument that the U.S. isn’t</i><i> </i><i>overtaxed
and
profligate, but rather a paradise for corporate
tax cheats</i>.” — John Anderson, Variety<br>
<br>
“<i>A masterfully compelling film—crisp, urgent, and
thoughtful…Hayes and Bruce have provided a</i><i>
</i><i>great
public service by firing out a devastating opening
salvo. It’s a clarion call for change.</i>” —
Michael Dunaway, Paste Magazine<br>
<br>
“<i>…essential viewing for those who want to
understand just how we ended up in this mess in
the first</i><i> </i><i>place.</i>” — Noah
Nelson, Huffington Post<br>
<br>
‘<i>W<b>e’re Not Broke,</b> a smart muckraker by
Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce, investigates the
offshore</i><i> </i><i>tax havens that allow
publicly bailed-out corporations to score
record-setting profits</i>.” — Greg Evans,
Bloomberg News<br>
<br>
“<i>Hayes and Bruce do a great job of tackling a big
issue in a way that should make logical sense to</i><i>
</i><i>most viewers, and help to contextualize the
same concerns that the Occupy movement have been</i><i>
</i><i>addressing.
What’s more, as a call to action, the doc should
infuriate its viewers, which could lead to</i><i>
</i><i>needed
real world reform.</i>” — Basil Tsiokos, what
(not) to doc<br>
<br>
“<i>In the new documentary We’re Not Broke
directors/producers Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce</i><i>
</i><i>examine the income side of the equation with
surgical precision, laying bare the system of
off-shore</i><i> </i><i>tax havens, massive
corporate lobbying, and accounting trickery that
transforms the United States’</i><i> </i><i>35%
corporate tax into an effective 0%.</i>” — Noah
Nelson, Huffington Post<br>
<br>
“<i><b>We’re Not Broke’</b> names and shames a
number of major US corporations which it says
don’t pay</i><i> </i><i>their fair share of US
taxes, including some based on the Island.</i>” —
Marina Mello, Royal Gazette Newspaper, Bermuda<br>
<br>
“<i>Watch this movie and it will indicate why I
support the spirit of OWS. If not every action</i>.”<br>
Twitter @alecbaldwin<br>
<br>
“<i>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</i>.” — Ben Fulton, Salt Lake Tribune<br>
<br>
“<i>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</i><i><br>
</i><i>United States and into tax-haven nations
(such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Ireland)
to avoid income taxes.</i>” — Sean P. Means, Salt
Lake Tribune<br>
<br>
“<i>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.</i>” — Bridgette Bates,
Sundance Online<br>
<br>
"<i>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)"</i>
— Gretchen Sisson, Bitch Magazine<br>
<br>
“<i><b>We’re Not Broke</b></i><i>” 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</i>.” — Chuck Collins, IPS<br>
<br>
“<i>In ‘<b>We’re Not Broke</b>,’ 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</i>.”
— Jeanette D. Moses, SLUG Magazine<br>
<br>
“<i>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.</i>”<br>
— Agence France-Presse<br>
<br>
<b>"<i>WE’RE NOT BROKE </i></b><i>ranks no. 1 of
top 5 documentary films getting buzz at Sundance.</i><i>"</i><br>
— Christian Science Monitor<br>
<i><br>
</i><i>“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.</i>” —
Bryce J. Renniger, Indiewire<br>
<br>
“<i>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.</i>” — Tammy McLeod,
Agrigirl’s Blog<br>
<br>
“<i><b>We’re Not Broke</b> is different from other
films because it not only presents the problem; it
presents what normal citizens can do to about that
problem</i>.”
— Rachel Westrate, The Park City High School
Prospector<br>
<br>
“<i>. . . 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</i>.” — Jason Dean,
Dane101.com<br>
<br>
“<i>. . . documentary that should cut straight to
the heart of Wisconsin politics, showing the
growing inequality gap and assault on public
employees. . .</i>” — Rob Thomas, 77 Square</td>
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