Break the Media Blackout:

A Conference on Media Democracy

and the Struggle to End Poverty

FILM FESTIVAL

 

BREAK THE MEDIA BLACKOUT FILM SCREENINGS!

OCTOBER 4-5
$2 suggested donation

Don't miss these shorts from the Independent Media Movement and the Movement to End Poverty!

FRIDAY 7-10 P.M.
Prince Music Theater- Broad & Chestnut Streets

Philadelphia Premiere!
"The Ultimate Song"
Includes Wyclef Jean, Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, Bruce Springsteen, Ice-T, Government Mule, Jackson Browne and other musicians building the Movement to End Poverty

"Copy this Tape"
A work in progress by the Media College of the University of the Poor

SATURDAY 7-9 P.M.
Temple University, Tuttleman Hall 13th & Montgomery – room 105

"Marching On"
A best-of compilation from the Kensington Welfare Rights Union's own television program

"Ad and the Ego" (excerpted)
Harold Boihem & Chris Emmanouilides
By re-editing and restructuring thousands of contemporary and classical television commercials with insights by media critics, this piece reveals the economic and political dimensions of living in an advertising infused environment.

"Taco Bell Truth Tour" (captioned)
A nationwide journey of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to end sweatshops in the fields
Coverage by "Big Tea Party" from the streets during the Republican National Convention

"Strong Roots" (captioned)
The struggle of Brazil's landless peasant movement- the largest poor people's movement in this hemisphere

"2 Legit 2 Quit"
A brief history of the founding of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union

Also Dispatches from the GUERILLA NEWS NETWORK

 

 
 

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