Posted on 09/23/2020 7:44:52 AM PDT by GnuThere
The "creative director" of our local Alamo Drafthouse Theater is holding a League of Women Voters registration event AT the theater AND mentioned on local TV it will correspond to running the "On The Basis of Sex" RBG movie in honor of her death. I emailed and asked if she was trying to alienate half of the theater's business and she claimed none of this is partisan, including the League of Women Voters.
This seems outrageous, but then again the Alamo chain is based in Austin so this may be their typical politics. The only reason I've patronized it is that my disabled brother likes to go there.
Opinions - isn't this a bit over the top for a movie theater?
Is their stated policy that they will only be registering Democrats?
No, but by running the RBG film I assume that’s what they’re trying to attract.
Its Austin, the Moscow of the south!
Gosh...I don’t remember all this broohaha when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor passed on...and she was the FIRST FEMALE Supreme Court Justice.
Oh...she was nominated by Ronald Reagan.
I just answered my own question.
League of Women Voters has been leaning lib for years.
And the RGB documentary is partisan propaganda even though nationally they are claiming it isn’t.
And none of these “non-partisan” organizers ever stage a public screening of a conservative created documentary (or even just a night of old “newsreels” and “educational films” or even “Schoolhouse Rock” infotainment).
She hasn’t passed but the Left was happy when Scalia died.
They’ve spent the years between Obama’s departure and Trump’s first four years turning RBG into an icon (shirts, toys, dolls, movies) that did not exist for most of her career.
Yeah, I think this manager is so reflexively lib that she didn’t even realize RBG is NOT an icon to all females.
In the Houston area there were these taxpayer funded events:
Free Advance Drive-In Screening of Stacey Abrams’ Doc All In: The Fight for Democracy
We’re excited to partner with Amazon Studios for a Drive-In screening of the film All In: The Fight for Democracy at the Showboat Drive-In on Wednesday, September 9th at 8:30pm. The best part? Entry is entirely free!
In anticipation of the 2020 presidential election, All In: The Fight for Democracy examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States. The film interweaves personal experiences with current activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has corrupted our democracy from the very beginning. With the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the documentary offers an insider’s look into laws and barriers to voting that most people don’t even know are threats to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.
Tickets are first come, first serve. Gates open at 7:30pm. The Showboat Drive-In is located at 22422 Farm to Market 2920, Hockley, TX 77447
All In: The Fight For Democracy
September 9th | 8:30PM
The Showboat Drive-In
22422 Farm to Market 2920
FREE with RSVP
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Rescheduled! Director Shola Lynch Talks Chisholm ‘72
Writer and director Shola Lynch (Free Angela and All Political Prisoners), who also serves as curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound division of the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, joins HCAS Artistic Director Jessica Green on September 24th at 6:30pm for a free live discussion on Lynch’s film Chisholm ‘72. The conversation will include panelists Carmen Abrego, Marian Luntz, and Dr. Elizabeth Gregory who will look at Chisholm’s legacy, the centennial of the women’s suffragette movement, and its intersection with the Post World War I New Negro movement. This program is presented as part of the MFAH’s “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibition and the Suffrage Centennial Book Club. The conversation will be livestreamed to the Houston Public Library Facebook Page. This screening is in partnership with the MFAH, Houston Public Library, and UH’s Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department.
Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this compelling documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land.
Following Chisholm from her own announcement of her candidacy through her historic speech in Miami at the Democratic National Convention, the story is a fight for inclusion. Shunned by the political establishment and the media, this longtime champion of marginalized Americans asked for support from people of color, women, gays, and young people newly empowered to vote at the age of 18. Chisholm’s bid for an equal place on the presidential dais generated strong, even racist, opposition. Yet her challenge to the status quo and her message about exercising the right to vote struck many as progressive and positive. Period footage and music, interviews with supporters, opponents, observers, and Chisholm’s own commentary all illuminate her groundbreaking initiative as well as political and social currents still very much alive today.
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Houston Cinema Arts Society is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance; an award by the Texas Commission on the Arts; and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. Major support is provided by the Franci Neely Foundation, The Brown Foundation, and the Petrello Family Foundation.
” Director Shola Lynch Talks Chisholm ‘72”
Better than a bottle of wine and 20mg of melatonin for putting you to sleep.
Stacey Abrams documentary.
And Joe Bob Briggs said the Drive-In would never die.
Ooops! So she quietly and with dignity Retired when she felt it was time?
Like Ruth should have?
Went with Abe Vigoda to quietly live out his autumn years
Yes...I just checked and she retired in 2006, which gave her a 25 year tenure on the SC.
Also, obozo gave her the Medal of Freedom. A great honor, except she had to receive it from that guy.
We will let you know. She’s 90.
God Bless her! 90!
She was the FIRST Female Supreme Court Justice.
No amount of RBG-Worship can change that.
I hoped an “Alamo Drafthouse” was a bar outside of San Antonio.
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