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DESCRIPTION:   These days, you have to go pretty far out of your way to spend your 
 money in an local "mom and pop" store instead of one of the thousands of 
 corporate chains that seem to be sprouting up in every city in America, and 
 increasingly overseas, too.     One couple has taken that notion a little 
 bit farther — 13,000 miles farther, to be exact.     In their new 
 documentary, Independent America, award-winning journalists Hanson Hosein 
 and Heather Hughes took the roads less traveled to uncover the growing 
 opposition to corporate franchises and “big box” retailers across the 
 U.S., and the David vs. Goliath struggle that local small businesses are 
 being forced to wage to stay alive.     The film is an account of the 
 former TV reporters’ 32-state road trip in search of “unchained" 
 America. They have only two self-imposed rules: 1) no interstate highways, 
 and 2) no corporate chains — including gas stations, restaurants, hotels, 
 and grocery stores. In other words, they can only shop with mom and pop.    
  What they discover during their trip is growing discontent with corporate 
 America, and a growing movement away from globalization and toward 
 “re-localization,” as individuals and small businesses across the 
 country band together to preserve not only their livelihoods, but their 
 local communities as well.     In Colorado, a Starbucks is repeatedly 
 vandalized. In Texas, a rebellious city forces Borders Books into retreat. 
 Residents of America’s “Fourth of July” capital in Nebraska turn 
 against their new Wal-Mart. And an entire Wyoming town goes into business 
 for itself after it is abandoned by its chain department store.     Along 
 the way, their conversations with corporate executives, economists, 
 entrepreneurs, political leaders, union members, and ordinary Americans 
 from all walks of life lead Hosein and Hughes to conclude that a healthy 
 democracy needs local small businesses if it wants to control ever-growing 
 corporate power.     The 80-minute film will be followed by a panel 
 discussion featuring David Room of Energy Preparedness, Don Shaffer of the 
 Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and Lani Riccobuono 
 of AK Press. Tickets are $5 – $10, and can be purchased online and at the 
 theater 30 minutes before the show. Proceeds benefit the 2006 CounterCorp 
 Film Festival in October. For more information about the screening or the 
 CounterCorp Festival, visit www.countercorp.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/12/92653.php
SUMMARY:Benefit film screening: "INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop"
LOCATION:Brava Theater  2789 24th Street (@ York St.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/12/92653.php
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