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DESCRIPTION:Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments and social hour at  
 6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nROGER AND ME\nby Michael Moore\n\nThis film, so funny and 
 melancholy at the same time, chronicles the world's largest corporation, 
 General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost 
 town back in 1989.  In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a 
 thing, filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the CEO, 
 Roger Smith, and invite him out for a few beers up in Flint to "talk things 
 over."  In between his efforts to see Roger Smith, Moore, the son of a 
 Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre journey through Flint.  The scenes 
 from Flint are startling:  there are 20,000 people standing in line to 
 collect federal surplus cheese and butter;  there are large sections of the 
 city filled with abandoned homes and boarded up stores, looking more like a 
 war zone than an American town;  and there are 28,000 people who have lost 
 their homes and their life savings and have packed up and headed south in 
 search of work.  With the social cost of 25% unemployment, record rates of 
 suicide, spousal abuse, and alcoholism, Flint surpasses Miami and Detroit 
 as the city with the highest rate of violent crime.  GM had laid off 40,000 
 people and intended to eliminate another 10,000 in the coming years.   50% 
 of Flint's GM workforce will have been abolished by 1989, an event of 
 unprecedented proportion in American history.  This film is both a dark 
 comedy and a compelling indictment of an American Dream gone 
 awry.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/18/18661666.php
SUMMARY:Roger and Me
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/18/18661666.php
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