<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Excellent! Let's do it!<br><br>Ricky <br>
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"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 6/8/10, Stuart Levy <i><slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Stuart Levy <slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu><br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] should we bring new Oliver Stone doc re: South America to C-U?<br>To: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:41 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Ooh, this sounds cool.<br><br>Haven't tried advocating any films with the new owner,<br>but have chatted with him several times. He seems like the<br>type of person who might well take this on.<br><br><br>On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:13:38PM -0300, Robert Naiman wrote:<br>> As I imagine some of you are aware, Oliver Stone has a new documentary<br>> out about
South America called "South of the Border." It's a series of<br>> interviews with progressive South American leaders, mixed with some<br>> historical background and interviews with a few analysts. Chavez,<br>> Morales, Correa, Lula, Fernandez, Lugo. If you've seen the Irish<br>> documentary about Venezuela, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,"<br>> you'll recognize some of the footage and ideas.<br>> <br>> Friend of C-U Mark Weisbrot is very involved with this project - he<br>> wrote the original script and is currently touring with Oliver to<br>> promote the film.<br>> <br>> The film is in commercial distribution. I believe that there is going<br>> to be a Chicago screening in the next few months. We could try to set<br>> up a C-U screening, and if we manage to time it right, I think we<br>> could get Mark to come down and answer questions after the film.<br>> <br>> So my query is:<br>> <br>> -
has anyone dealt with the Art management on a project like this<br>> since they last switched hands? my experience was that the other guy<br>> was very friendly to projects like this.<br>> <br>> - if not the Art, are there other alternatives? The Virginia?<br>> <br>> - could we get a bunch of people to show up?<br>> <br>> The trailer is here:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/southoftheborderdoc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/southoftheborderdoc</a><br>> <br>> -- <br>> Robert Naiman<br>> Policy Director<br>> Just Foreign Policy<br>> www.justforeignpolicy.org<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>> <br>> Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br>> <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern"
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