| During
the 2004 election, filmmakers strove to impact public opinion
to help unseat Bush. We decided that we would help by screening
some of the best – or perhaps, most disconcerting –
documentaries to show what has been going on in the clandestine
chambers of the Bush White House. Film for the evening included
Fahrenheit 9/11, Unprecedented – The 2000 Presidential
Election, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq
War, and Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?
Short films by Robert Banks and other Cleveland filmmakers were
shown between the full-length films. |
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Unprecedented – The 2000 Presidential Election (2002)
is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida
and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard
Ray Perez and Joan Sekler examine modern America’s most
controversial political contest: the 2000 election of George W.
Bush. What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred
by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister
voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate’s
brother.
http://www.unprecedented.org/
>> Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2003)
– Robert Greenwald's film contains compelling
footage of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Powell, and others painting a very
clear picture of the distorted intelligence and “spin and
hype” presented to Congress, the United Nations, and the
American people. Those interviewed include former Ambassador Joe
Wilson, weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and David Albright, former
Director of CIA Stansfield Turner, former Assistant Secretary
of Defense Philip Coyle, anti-terrorism expert Rand Beers, former
CIA analysts Ray McGovern and Mel Goodman, former CIA operative
Robert Baer, and Washington editor of The Nation, David Corn.
Regarding this film, Senator Edward Kennedy stated, "Uncovered
is a devastating analysis of the abuses and distortions of intelligence
used by the Bush administration in making its case for the war
in Iraq. If the American people and Congress had been told the
whole truth, America would have never gone to war."
http://www.truthuncovered.com/
>> Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? (2002) The
hypocrisy of the U.S. government is powerfully scrutinized in
this film, a scathing thesis presented by renowned scholar Noam
Chomsky. Speaking before an intimate audience at Harvard University
on February 6, 2002, Chomsky sets fair and logical parameters
to his thesis before outlining, with academic precision and citation
of history, the reasons why America's post-9/11 war on terror
is a logical impossibility.
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