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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm 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\nCASINO JACK: The United States of Money\nby Alex 
 Gibney\n\nThis eye-opening documentary is a lesson in how the U.S. 
 government works (or, rather, fails to work!).  The government process is 
 based on who pays who to further some person’s agenda.  Elected 
 representatives answer to lobbyists instead of to we the people.  
 Injustices such as murder and sweatshops are ignored if enough money is 
 paid into campaigns of politicians who will look the other way.  Take 
 politicians on enough exciting vacations with beautiful golf courses, and 
 greed can easily corrupt their goals.\n\nThis film is a journey through 
 Jack Abramoff’s outrageous life.  Raising money is one of the hardest 
 things politicians have to do in order to campaign and it’s difficult to 
 have time to do it.  So if a powerful lobbyist is offering contributions to 
 a politician without any major extra effort, on the politician’s part, 
 it’s easy to say “yes.”  Jack Abramoff romanced politicians with a 
 better lifestyle filled with golf courses and luxury vacations.  He was 
 himself  a zealot — who was led to corruption through his idealism.  His 
 became a wild, larger-than-life character, romping wherever his beloved 
 “free market” was reinforced.  He was at the heart of the total 
 breakdown of the political system.  He was not an exception to the rule; he 
 was an exaggeration of business as usual.  Because Abramoff was a 
 multi-tentacled operator, and traveled around the world on behalf of his 
 clients, there were numerous money trails that the film follows all around 
 the world.  And nothing has fundamentally changed since the Abramoff 
 scandal.  Alex Gibney tells us:  “The biggest problem we have is that 
 money is able to exert a force of power [on Washington] that’s 
 irresistible. We need  to try to find a way to take money out of politics; 
 unless that happens we’re done.”\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/01/18668075.php
SUMMARY:Casino Jack: The United States of Money
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/01/18668075.php
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