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DESCRIPTION:We Interrupt This Empire... Film Screening Benefit on the 3-year 
 anniversary of the Iraq war  March 18th – 6-7:30pm  Women's Building, 
 3543 18th Street, San Francisco  Suggested donation:   $5.00 students, 
 $10.00 regular – no one turned away for lack of funds  Proceeds will go 
 to producing an Independent Media documentary on Todd Chretien's "Million 
 Votes for Peace" Green Party campaign for US Senate against pro-war 
 incumbent Sen. Diane Feinstein.  Filmmakers will be in attendance and a few 
 words will spoken by local anti-war activists   Three years after the 
 invasion of Iraq, our resistance continues as over one hundred thousand 
 Iraqis have been killed along with over 2,200 soldiers. All of the lies for 
 going to war against Iraq have been exposed. There were no weapons of mass 
 destruction or connections to Al-Qaeda as claimed by Bush and voted on by 
 the Congress. The anti-war movement knew the reasons for going to Iraq were 
 lies as they protested on the streets leading up to the invasion and the 
 weeks proceeding. The only weapons of mass destruction that have been seen 
 in Iraq are the ones used by the United States military as it drops bombs 
 on Iraqis and destroys whole cities like Fallujah. More than ever, the tens 
 of thousands of people who were against this war in the first place, along 
 with people who now see through the lies, need to build a movement against 
 the deadly occupation of Iraq. We can draw inspiration from this film that 
 helps us remember our recent history of resistance on the streets of San 
 Francisco. We must put the billions of dollars spent on the war back into 
 our communities.  "We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work by 
 many of the Bay Area's independent video activists which documents the 
 direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in 
 the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio 
 backdrop including live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF 
 Independent Media, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of 
 resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a 
 critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such 
 issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and 
 the United States' current imperialist drive.   The San Francisco Bay Area 
 Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News: an 
 eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to an 
 illegal war.  The Video Activist Network is an informal association of 
 activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, 
 economic and environmental justice campaigns.   Winner - Best of the Bay - 
 San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 2004   For more information visit: 
 http://www.videoactivism.org  |  http://www.indybay.org  |  
 http://www.todd4senate.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/07/90883.php
SUMMARY:We Interrupt This Empire...
LOCATION:Women's Building, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/07/90883.php
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