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DESCRIPTION:Come to a planning meeting to enter in to the controversy around the film, 
 "Oppenheimer"\n\nThen join us at the 7:30pm showing of Oppenheimer at 
 the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland \n\nOn Thursday, July 20, Oppenheimer, a 
 major motion picture based on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, will open all 
 across the U.S. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, was 
 instrumental in the development of the world's first atomic bomb in the 
 1940s as part of what was called the Manhattan Project.\n\nJuly 16, 1945, 
 “Trinity”, the first test of the atomic bomb blasted “successfully” 
 across the New Mexico desert. A few weeks later, on August 6, a blazing, 
 million-degree fireball suddenly appeared just above the Japanese city of 
 Hiroshima, instantly killing, burning alive, or vaporizing tens of 
 thousands. Firestorms engulfed the city. Shockwaves and winds over 1,000 
 miles an hour came next, shattering bodies and buildings, hurling men, 
 women, and children through the air. Nearly all structures were destroyed 
 over a mile from ground zero. 140,000 people, almost all civilians died in 
 Hiroshima. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.\n\nThe 
 dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan was a fitting ghastly start to what 
 the U.S. Imperialist have called “the American century." Never a word of 
 regret from the US government for this crime against humanity, and the U.S. 
 still has first use of nuclear weapons enshrined in its military 
 doctrine.\n\nThis film is coming out at a time when the world is closer to 
 world war, to nuclear Armaggedon, than it has been for decades. The U.S. is 
 escalating its proxy war with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine; it is also 
 ramping up its military threats and war preparations against China, which 
 also has nuclear weapons. This is a time of grave existential danger to 
 humanity and the planet.\n\nBut this is also a period of intensifying 
 tearing apart of U.S. society, with the rulers at the top at each other's 
 throats—a rare time when there is also a greater chance to make 
 emancipating revolution.\n\nNo World War 3—It Is This System, Not 
 Humanity\n\nThat Needs To Become Extinct!\n\nWatch the trailer of 
 Oppenheimer here.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/18/18857401.php
SUMMARY:Take Revolution to the Movie Lines for the film Oppenheimer
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/18/18857401.php
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