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NOTE: Cynthia McKinney is in town for the screening of the film AMERICAN
BLACKOUT---and is also making other appearences. Of note to labor
activists is her talk tomorrow with Ford Plant workers:
4pm Talk with Workers at Ford Plant in St Paul
Baker's Square Coffee Shop
Ford Parkway near Cretin (directly across from Ford Plant)
St Paul
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TONIGHT/Sunday December 9th, 6pm-8 pm
Screening of film AMERICAN BLACKOUT with Cynthia McKinney
Owen Science Building
St Thomas University
S.W. Corner of Summit Ave and Cretin, St Paul
AMERICAN BLACKOUT:Film Exposes Black Voter Suppression---and Hails a Sheroe
reviewed by Lydia Howell
Corporate media reduced the 2000 presidential election debacle to
Florida's "hanging and dimpled chads", Democratic scapegoating of Ralph
Nader's campaign and a relentless sneering smack-down of all questions.
The 2004 presidential election's rerun in Ohio got even less media
attention--amounting to censorship. The film AMERICAN BLACKOUT is an
searing reply that exposes grotesque crimes against our democracy by
means of a high-tech Jim Crow assault on African-Americans' right to vote.
Director Ian Inaba hits the ground running in a fast-paced film that
kicks off with Taalan Acey's stupendous rap "True Lies".
The film finally gives voice to "ordinary citizens", activists, various
members of the Congressional Black Caucus and investigative reporter
Greg Palast--who extensively documented the 2000 election theft in his
book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Inaba takes the minimal look
that Michale Moore gave to this electoral coup and expands it into a
film of stunning outrage and a call to action.
Taalan Acey's stupendous rap "True Lies".
The film finally gives voic
At the heart of AMERICAN BLACKOUT is a rare profile in political
courage: former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who from the start raised her
voice to ask the questions most Democrats refused to ask. Corporate
media created a racist caricature of McKinney that demanded redemption.
McKinney is an antidote to the cynical sense that "all politicians are
the same crooks" by showing us what a true representative of We The
People looks like. This is "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington" for the 21st
century.
In a time where "bringing democracy to the Middle East" is relentles
parroted as the justification for invading and occupying Iraq, AMERICAN
BLACKOUT diagnosis the actual state of democracycy in the U.S. We see
Congresswoman McKinney confront the most controversial issues of our
time---election dirty tricks, voter suppression by racial profiling, and
the unanswered questions about the September 11th attacks--and we see
how a representative with integrity is targeted. McKinney faced a dirty
campaign to get her out of office, smear tactics in the press and death
threats that made it necessary for her to live in her home as she puts
it "with closed blinds and covered windows".
Part investigative documentary film-making at its sharpest, part ringing
inspiration through the tenacity of political sheroe Cynthia McKinney,
AMERICAN BLACKOUT does what a free press is supposed to do: shine a
burning light on the powerful and give the citizenry the facts needed to
take democracy into our own hands.
It's said that "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance" and AMERICAN
BLACKOUT is a cinematic expression of those sentiments that should be
required viewing.
Now running for president and seeking the Green Party nomination,
Cynthia McKinney will be at this screening to speak. The rest of
McKinney's events are below.
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***Monday December 10th***
7:30 am breakfast meeting with community activists:NOTE TIME CHANGE
Marie's Cafe
1113 East Franklin Ave
Minneapolis
10:30 am
Press Conference
Global Exchange Building
Greenway Conference Room
Corner of Lake St and Chicago
Minneapolis
11:30 am Fundraiser and Lunch
Same location
1-3:30 pm Personal Interviews with Cynthia
With various Journalists in Minnesota
4pm Talk with Workers at Ford Plant in St Paul
Baker's Square Coffee Shop
Ford Parkway near Cretin (directly across from Ford Plant)
St Paul
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