[Peace] This Divided State and The Corporation at Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Two great events at Allen Hall. Please forward widely:

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THIS DIVIDED STATE
a documentary film by steven greenstreet
Champaign-Urbana premiere - One night only!
with Q & A with the director
FREE ADMISSION!
Thursday, April 14th
7:00pm
Allen Hall Main Lounge
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the parking garage across the street)
www.thisdividedstate.com

A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the nation, This Divided State begins in September 2004 with the presidential election fast approaching and the State of Utah ready to declare itself "Bush Country" once again. However, this conservative calm was jolted when Utah Valley State College announced that liberal filmmaker Michael Moore would speak on their campus two weeks before the election. Within 24 hours of the announcement, a media frenzy descended upon the school as angry community members and religious leaders shouted protests, pointed fingers, and quoted Mormon scripture. Some even claimed Moore's arrival would bring the Apocalypse. And so began a heated war of protest, lawsuits, and death threats. Would conservative activists prevent Michael Moore from coming? Would liberal Utahans win out their fight for freedom of speech? The answer lies somewhere within This Divided State. 

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The Corporation
A film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan

Winner of 25 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS including the AUDIENCE AWARD for DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. 

Free!
Wednesday, April 13
7:00pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the parking garage across the street)

"Riveting, entertaining, and highly intelligent" Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
"The Corporation is just brilliant - visually, intellectually, and morally. This film has redefined the documentary genre!" Barbara Ehrenreich, TIME magazine columnist

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. 

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Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu


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