[GPSCC-chat] Movies

[Gerry Gras]

Brian Good wrote:
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> "Inside Job", Charles Ferguson's documentary about the financial
> meltdown, plays
> Tuesday May 31 at 7:30 at the Unitarian church.

in Palo Alto.
     http://peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20110506113020984


> Free, but donations
> requested.
> The interviews with academics who can't perceive their own corruption
> are shocking.
> A panel discussion at Stanford featuring Ferguson drew a couple hundred
> people. He
> said some of these guys earn 25X as much from their consulting work as
> they do from
> their professorial salaries.
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> "The First Grader" deals with colonialism, literacy, sticking to your
> guns, and the
> value of old revolutionaries in a tale about an 84-year-old Kenyan who
> won't take
> no for an answer in his quest for an education. Inspiring. That's at
> Palo Alto Square,
> probably not for long.
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> "Even the Rain" is about water, European attitudes, and revolution in
> Bolivia. It
> ain't art--the arc of character is clumsily contrived--but its heart is
> in the right place
> and it's well done aside from the script. Friday, June 3, San Jose Peace and
> Justice Center, 6:30. Includes Bolivian food, $5--$10 requested.
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