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Monday, November 24, 2003
Tuesday Night at the Movies
Join DC Indymedia on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 7 p.m. for two films at the Flemming Center (1426 9th St. NW). Admission is free, but donations are suggested.
"We Interrupt This Empire" documents the Bay Area's radical response to the start of the war in Iraq, including the shutdown of San Francisco's financial district for several days. Using audio from the live broadcasts of SF Indymedia's Enemy Combatant Radio and the SFPD's tactical communications picked up by police scanners, the documentary looks at the diverse show of resistance from the streets as well as the corporate media coverage of the war and the imperialist drive of the United States.
"Value Added Cinema" will get you in the spirit for "Buy Nothing Day" on Friday, Nov. 28. The film is a montage of appropriated corporate advertisements placed in movies. If you can take it, here's the hideously cynical face of "capitalist branding" embedded in commercial cinema and across public media.
DC Metro Action is published by Michael Schlesinger, a 32-year veteran of electoral and issue organizing who is committed to social justice and to increasing participation in the political process.
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