[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:8218] New Film on Florida Presidential Election

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Voter March (www.votermarch.org)  - New York City will hold
>a general membership meeting at 160 East 48th Street,
>(corner 3rd Avenue), The Buchanan, Penthouse U,
>Manhattan.  The meeting will start with a showing of the
>Voter March Cable TV show from the Manhattan
>Neighborhood Network on Channel 67 at 7 pm EST and on
>the internet at www.MNN.org .  Louis Posner, Voter March
>Founder and Executive Director, and Stephen Modica, New
>York Steering Committee, talk about Voter March history and
>events, the Greg Palast tour and Danny Schechter's new film
>"Counting on Democracy."
>
>At 7:30 pm we will have our special guest, Danny Schechter,
>ExecutiveProducer of Globalvision (www.globalvision.org)
>who will give us a preview showing of his new documentary
>film "Counting on Democracy" about the Florida Presidential
>election debacle.  Suggested contribution $5.
>
>"The answer is tough investigations of what happened in the
>voting and the  vote counting, uncompromised by the false
>notion that avoidance of controversy will be healing.  The
>answer is also tough reporting on what happened in Florida
>that does not confuse fairness with the unsatisfactory
>practice of quoting one strident voice and then its opposite in
>every story." Alex Jones of Harvard University's Center on
>the Press, Politics and Public Policy in the New York Times
>
>                    A NEW CUTTING-EDGE FILM FROM
>GLOBALVISION ON THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE 2000
>ELECTORAL FIASCO IN FLORIDA:
>
>COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY
>Narrated by OSSIE DAVIS AND RUBY DEE
>Written and Produced by Faye M. Anderson
>
>Produced and Directed by Danny Schechter
>  "This tale of race, political payback, voter fraud and justice
>  deferred could have come out of a Hollywood thriller. But no-
>this is the story of the 2000 Presidential election in Florida,
>one of the most startling, disturbing events in recent years.
>Directed by investigative reporter Danny Schechter
>[executive editor of  MediaChannel.org, and executive
>producer of Globalvision], Counting on Democracy is a jaw-
>dropping, even terrifying account of just how shallow our
>nation's commitment to democracy can be" Taos Film
>  Festival 175,000 votes went uncounted in Florida during the
>2000 Presidential Election. Only 537 votes separated the
>contenders when the United States  Supreme Court gave the
>presidency to George W. Bush? What happened to all the
>votes? What was behind the fiasco in Florida? Was
>it a coup, a conspiracy or a "tyranny of small decisions?" 
>Were black voters disenfranchised and other minorities
>discriminated against?COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY tells
>the full story the mainstream media wouldn't.
>
>This non-partisan hour-long investigative film penetrates the
>electoral swamp in Florida with interviews and new
>information about how the right to vote was undermined, and
>the recount sabotaged.
>Globalvision speaks with voters, activists, and partisans on
>all sides to make sense of the disruption of democracy and a
>massive denial of the  right to vote. This eye opening film
>goes deeper than the networks in upholding the right to vote.
>AVAILABLE NOW FOR SCREENINGS
>NATIONWIDE. Watch it on public TV.   To order preview
>VHS copies of this film, please send a $75 contribution to
>Voter March, Ltd., P. O.
>Box 7035, New York, NY 10150 or order from PayPal at
>www.votermarch.org


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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