Tues 6/10, Wed 6/11: "We Interrupt This Empire..." at the Red Vic

WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE...

Screening Dates:
Tuesday, June 10th at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
Wednesday, June 11th at 2 p.m., 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

at the Red Vic Movie House, 1727 haight Street in San Francisco (415-668-3994).
Regular admission is $6.

What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation?

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.

"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 the live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF Independent Media Center to SFPD's tactical communications that were picked up by police scanners, 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 Red Vic Movie House is located at 1727 Haight Street in the Upper Haight district of San Francisco. For more information, contact Whispered Media at 415-552-7959 or www.videoactivism.org.

Proceeds from WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE... go to the Video Activist Network (VAN) and Whispered Media. The VAN is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. Whispered Media is a collective that offers video witnessing, support and training, collects archival political footage, and produces video works about specific grassroots campaigns and organizations.

Also available from the Video Activist Network: Shutdown Downtown Fogtown, a daring collection of on-the-scene videos from the historic anti-war protests that shutdown San Francisco. The "Shutdown..." compilation mostly consists of the videos that screened at the outdoor screenings at Dolores Park during the first two weeks of the war. Select shorts from the compilation will be shown before "We Interrupt This Empire..."