At Stuart's suggestion, I posted a note on the Art's Facebook page. <div><br></div><div>I encourage everyone to pile in:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheArtTheater?v=wall">http://www.facebook.com/TheArtTheater?v=wall</a><br>
<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ricky Baldwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baldwinricky@yahoo.com">baldwinricky@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Excellent! Let's do it!<div class="im"><br><br>Ricky <br>
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"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn<br><br></div>--- On <b>Tue, 6/8/10, Stuart Levy <i><<a href="mailto:slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br>From: Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>><div class="im"><br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] should we bring new Oliver Stone doc re: South America to C-U?<br>
</div>To: "Robert Naiman" <<a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com" target="_blank">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>><div class="im"><br>Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
</div>Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:41 PM<br><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5">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>> <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
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