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DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress 
 swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest 
 movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail their agenda. Some 
 said this uprising was the epitome of grassroots democracy. Others said it 
 was a classic example of 'astroturfing' -- an elaborate corporate public 
 relations effort designed to create the impression of a spontaneous 
 uprising. Curious to find out for himself, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham 
 goes undercover and straight into the heart of the movement. He visits 
 raucous health care town hall meetings where irate voters parrot insurance 
 industry PR; learns that home-grown "citizen groups" challenging the 
 science behind climate change are funded by big oil companies; and 
 infiltrates a tea party movement whose anti-government rage turns out to be 
 less the product of populist rage than of corporate strategy. In the end, 
 The Billionaires' Tea Party offers a terrifying look at how corporate 
 elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans -- capitalizing 
 on anger, resentment, and paranoia to advance a narrow, often 
 anti-democratic, agenda.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/18/18724053.php
SUMMARY:Film - The Billionaires' Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolutio
LOCATION:Social Hall, First Baptist Church\n305 N. California Ave\nPalo Alto, CA 
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/18/18724053.php
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