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DESCRIPTION:Encore Screening: Independent America - The Two-Lane Search for Mom & 
 Pop\n\nLocation: Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St. Off of K St, between 19th 
 and 20th, next to the back-end of Old Spaghetti Factory. 7:00 PM. 
 Admission: $5.00. \n\nWe originally screened this in October of last year 
 and are bringing this important film back around for those who missed it 
 and those who want to see it again.  \n\nThese days, you have to go out of 
 your way if you want to do business with Mom & Pop. One couple has taken 
 that notion a little bit farther, 13,000 miles farther to be exact. 
 Independent filmmakers and award-winning journalists, Hanson Hosein and 
 Heather Hughes, take the road less traveled in a thought provoking new 
 documentary, which uncovers the growing opposition to big box retail across 
 the U.S. and the often desperate fight being waged by independent retailers 
 to stay alive. \n\n"Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop" 
 is an entertaining account of Hosein and Hughes’s expedition through 32 
 states as they look for an America unchained by corporate retail. 
 Self-imposed road rules bar them from major highways and corporate chain 
 retail. Traveling on alternative roads, the duo can only do business with 
 Mom & Pop. \n\nWhat the filmmakers find during their travels is the 
 re-emergence of independent retail as individuals and communities band 
 together to preserve not only their livelihoods but also their local 
 communities. Pockets of resistance across the country add up to a 
 nationwide opposition: Starbucks is vandalized in Colorado. Supporters of 
 an anti-big box law in Arizona are compared to Nazis. A rebellious Texan 
 city forces Borders Books into retreat. Patriotic residents of America’s 
 "Fourth of July" capital in Nebraska start to turn on their new super 
 center. And an entire town in Wyoming goes into business for itself after 
 it’s abandoned by its chain department store.\n\nWe are doing regular 
 weekly film screenings with Fools Foundation on Fridays at 7 PM - most are 
 $5 (unless otherwise noted in advance), and will have filmmakers out from 
 time to time. Digital projection on to a large screen.  Seating is on 
 folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own 
 folding chair!\n\nYou can always check 
 http://www.shiny-object.com/screenings/ \n\nTo get on our email list, send 
 an email to: \nsacto_screenings-subscribe@shiny-object.com \nor, to 
 communicate with an actual human: \nscreenings@shiny-object.com \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/24/18368060.php
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop
LOCATION:Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St. Off of K St, between 19th and 20th, next 
 to the back-end of Old Spaghetti Factory.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/24/18368060.php
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