[act-ma] Thursday 8/21: "Plunder" - Free UPandOUT film screening
pf soto
pfsoto at mynas.com
Mon Aug 4 11:03:46 PDT 2014
[copies of Presente! - (see below) <#Presente> will be available]
*NOTE: very important but NOT, IMHO, "the Crime of Our Time." That
instead would be USRael **
**sowing the seeds for WWIII, as witnessed by it's most recent
aggression in the Ukraine and the Middle East.*
*Our October film will deal with American Imperialism.*
*<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-140821-Plunder.pdf>Plunder - the
Crime of Our Times*
/"it's going to be an uphill battle to get this film seen because the
forces that created the crisis are the forces that dominate the
discussion of the crisis"/
*see trailer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA7EfzYm4oI>
*
Showing Thursday, Aug 21, in Cambridge
[please download & distribute flyer
<http://rule19.org/download-film/film-140821-Plunder.pdf>]
Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars,
millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of
retirement funds, /*Plunder: The Crime of Our Time*/ investigates the
unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market's collapse in fall 2008.
Filmmaker Danny Schechter explores the epidemic of subprime mortgages,
predatory lending, insurance scams, and high-risk hedge funds that
caused the collapse of the housing market and a full-scale economic
meltdown.
Schechter speaks to a range of analysts and insiders about the origins
of the crisis: bankers, respected economists, insider experts, top
journalists and a convicted white-collar criminal, Sam Antar, who admits:
/"The white collar criminal has no legal constraints; you subpoena
documents, we destroy documents; you subpoena witnesses, we lie. So
you are at a disadvantage when it comes to the white-collar
criminal. In effect, we're economic predators"//
/
"/When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create
for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it
and a moral code that glorifies it./" ~Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law' (1850)
/"... our economy has crashed, brought down not just by greed but
calculated schemes that flouted the intent of our laws, enriched a few
and devastated the economy, leading to a massive loss of jobs, homes and
personal wealth./" ~ Danny Schechter
"/This is the most expensive take-out, the biggest crime in world
history; We're talking about a crime we can't even quantify; you're
talking trillions of dollars - minimum/." ~ Nomi Prins, Bears Stearns
& Goldman Sachs
/"It can fairly be said that the chain of catastrophic bets made over
the past decade by a few hundred bankers may well turn out to be the
greatest non-violent crime against humanity in history./" ~Graydon
Carter, journalist
"America, they say love it or leave it; well, i loved it and it left
me." ~from My Country My Ass
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19cEc_DVRrI> (song)
*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 door prizes
****[donations are encouraged]
*feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed
"/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...
Presente!
published by:School of the Americas *WATCH* <http://www.soaw.org/>:
*/T/*/*he School of the Americas (SOA) *is a combat training school for
Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 2001
renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
(WHINSEC). //It was initially established in Panama in 1946 however it
was expelled from Panama in 1984 under the terms of the //Panama Canal
Treaty //(article iv) and reinforced under the //Treaty Concerning the
Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal //(article v)./
/Former Panamanian President, Jorge Illueca, stated that the *School of
the Americas was the “biggest base for destabilization in Latin
America.”* *The SOA have left a trail of blood and suffering in every
country where its graduates have returned. For this reason the School of
the Americas has been historically dubbed the “School of Assassins”.*/)
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