[act-ma] Thursday 8/21: "Plunder - the Crime of Our Times" - Free UPandOUT film screening

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[PLEASE post - it's tomorrow - Thursday]
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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>
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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...