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What REALLY happened in FL - Thurs @ 7:00, 3-133
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Mon Oct 28 05:14:06 2002
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I suspect this film will be excellent. Is the US a democracy? Don't miss it!!
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Voting Rights & Voting Wrongs:
How Election 2000 was Decided in Florida
Thursday, October 31, 2002
7 p.m. in MIT Room 3-133
Faye Anderson, a veteran of the first Bush Administration, once served as
national vice chair of the Republican National Committee's New Majority Council.
Greg Palast is an investigative reporter who works for the BBC and the Guardian.
Danny Schechter is Executive Editor of MediaChannel.org and Executive Producer
of Globalvision. Anderson, Palast, and Schechter have made a film about what
happened in Florida during the last presidential election. According to the Taos
Talking Picture Festival:
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. [The film] is a jaw-dropping, even terrifying account of just
how shallow our nation's commitment to democracy can be. Weaving together the
many strands of a story largely ignored since the bombings of September 11, [the
team] also uncovers some new information, including the unethical, if not
unconstitutional, purging of the rolls of African American voters. Forget the
hanging chads and butterfly ballots: this election included the
disenfranchisement of 180,000 citizens ? largely the working poor and people of
color.
Ordinarily a film that deals with such important civic matters might be expected
to show up on public television. This film, however, will not be distributed by
PBS. Why not?
