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A guest speaker ("an expert from the
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<h1><b><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-121129-Were-Not-Broke.pdf"><img
alt=""
src="cid:part3.04080803.07020302@mynas.com"
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height="630" hspace="20"
width="491"></a></i></b>We're Not
Broke</h1>
<h2>An exposé into the secret world of
corporate tax dodging</h2>
Thursday, November 29 in Cambridge [<a
href="http://rule19.org/download-film/film-121129-Were-Not-Broke.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">please download
distribute & flyer</a>]<br>
<b><font color="#ff0000">NOTE: A special,
extra screening </font></b><b><font
color="#ff0000">for the xmas holidays; <br>
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!</font></b><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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<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>
<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." ~ Malcolm X<br>
<br>
<b>UPandOUT film series</b> - see <a
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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, Libya. Syria,
Iran, 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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<font color="#ff0000"><b>Locals make cameo
appearances :-)</b><b><br>
</b><b>Chuck Collins from IPS will be on
site for Q&A</b></font><br>
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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>
<br>
"<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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