Operation Strangelove (Garafalo & other leftists meet)

Operation Strangelove ^ | on or before May 12, 2003 | useful idiot

[BillF]

Stop Cowboy Diplomacy! Show your dissent: show a movie.

NEWS FLASH: Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman Join Operation Strangelove

Be part of a national anti-war action on May 14. Screen "Dr. Strangelove," and raise money for groups still working hard for peace, justice and relief in Iraq.

Pre-emptive strikes. Cowboy diplomacy. Men conspiring in the War Room, bent on world domination. Weapons of mass destruction. And most terrifying of all, an invasion begun for one overwhelming reason: precious fluids.

Forty years after its filming, the dark and explosively funny "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" seems like a satirical time bomb planted by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, set to detonate on Bush’s doctrine of unilateral warfare, anytime, anywhere.

As the war on Iraq winds down (at least on TV), as the perils (and profits) of occupation loom, and as the Bushies plot the next pre-emptive strike, Operation Strangelove aims to show the warmongers in their true light.

On May 14, put on a screening of "Dr. Strangelove" – in your living room, at the local theater, on campus, on your laptop, anywhere you can – and say no to unilateral invasions, to endangering our troops for the sake of oil, to flouting international law and the world community in the name of empire. Follow the film with discussions, forums, debates. Keep talking. Keep acting. Let’s give new meaning to the old Strategic Air Command motto, "Peace Is Our Profession."

On this site, you will find all the resources you need to organize a screening: a sample press release for you to customize, posters and flyers for a guerrilla teaser campaign, what you need to know about copyright laws and where to get the film, a study guide for the classroom, and, of course, T-shirts!

We’ve suggested five underfunded organizations doing critical work in the region that you can raise money for with your screening and provided their contact information – Voices in the Wilderness, MADRE, United for Peace and Justice, Doctors Without Borders and, lest we forget about Afghanistan entirely, RAWA. You can read more about them here.

There’s one more group that could use your help: Operation Strangelove. Please make a donation to help us cover the costs of mounting this event; any money we raise over our costs will be distributed among the above charities. We’re not part of any larger organization – it’s all out of pocket for now. So please, make a donation, buy a dozen t-shirts, order a copy of the "Dr. Strangelove" video or DVD. Every bit helps.

In New York City, Nile Southern, screenwriter Terry Southern’s son, and September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows will introduce the event, and a panel discussion moderated by critic John Leonard (CBS Sunday Morning, Harper's, The Nation, New York Magazine) will follow. Panelists including Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman ("Maus"), David Rees ("Get Your War On"), Gene Seymour (Newsday film and jazz critic), the Guerrilla Girls and others will discuss "The Art of Dissent: Satire and Protest."

The screening will be at United Artists 16 Battery Park, overlooking Ground Zero, beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14. Tickets at the door, $15 suggested. To reserve tickets, write info@operationstrangelove.org, and be sure to arrive early.

If you haven’t seen this movie or it’s been a while, you won’t believe how funny and frighteningly contemporary it is. Have a blast!

Remember: "War is too important to be left to politicians."

[Martus]

From the original DVD cover (the new DVD cover is different):

[P.O.E.]

And I wasn't invited?

[annyokie]

Isn't Peter Sellers great? "Yes, mein Furher, I mean, Mr. President."

Thank you!

[L,TOWM]

You left out the .45...

[annyokie]

Hey, I said I was paraphrasing. ; )

"Gentlemen, please! You can't fight in here, this the War Room!"

[taxed2death]

"As the Bush administration continues work to protect Americans....."




Bla, Bla, Bla.

Sell your BS somewhere else.



Our borders are still wide open.

You've been watching too much network TV.

[LiberationIT]

I've always enjoyed this movie, its one of three tapes I own. Even though the movie is meant to slam conservatives, it has always, to me at least, vividly demonstrated the profound ignorance and baseless paranoia of the left.

Screen away airheads. The parody is of you.

[hattend]

Next time you watch the movie, watch Col Kong's lips as he reads the list. He says "Las Vegas" but his lips move for "Dallas".

They re-dubbed it due to JFK's assassination.

Just some Dr. Strangelove trivia.

[annyokie]

Thanks for the trivia. I am a master of Trivial Persuit. This adds to my arsenal!

[cake_crumb]

PSSSSST....Jeanine, you idiot: the war in Iraq is over.

[cake_crumb]

The blue dress that launched a thousand missiles BUMP!

[cake_crumb]

Forty years after its filming, the dark and explosively funny "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" seems like a satirical time bomb planted by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, set to detonate on Bush’s doctrine of unilateral warfare, anytime, anywhere.

Psssst, Jeanine, you idiot: the Cold War is over too.

[Mr. Silverback]

Where's the picture of Slim Pickens riding the bomb? Yeehaw!

When I was at the 380th Wing in Plattsburgh, one of the squadron buildings near the flightline had a huge conventional bomb casing displayed on the front lawn. I always wanted to get a Slim pickeens shot of myself riding the bomb, cowboy hat and all, but there none of the angles were workable. Any shot either included a mess of power lines, nearby buildings or it didn't include the bomb.

[annyokie]

That's too bad! You may have had some friends hold a sheet behind you (I can't remember the name of the white paper models stand in front of).

Anyway, that's one of my favorite scenes from almost any movie. That and Big Night (a great "little" movie) where the chef brother wants to talk to the customer who wants spaghetti with her risotto, "No,forget it. She is a Philistine."

[cake_crumb]

"As the Bush administration continues work to protect Americans from terrorists and their tyrant allies, the leftists continue work to protect tyrants from the U.S."

I'm still trying to get this straight in my head:

Not long ago, anti-war protestors were campaigning for Cold War-style 'containment' of Saddam.

So a war was forced on the coalition, which won - to the unending chagrin of the anti-war protestors.

...So NOW they're using a film about Cold War containment to protest a president who knew that Cold War-style 'containment' against the biggest supporter of terrorism in the Mideast FAILED for 12 years, and so didn't GO for more Cold War-style 'containment' of Saddam...which the left was originally calling for?

[CyberAnt]

Well ... she was probably upset it wasn't HER dress ...!!

[CyberAnt]

The problem is: THEY DON'T THINK THEY'RE WRONG!

They think they're right - however ... WE KNOW WE ARE! That's the difference!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Do you know what Garafalo's drink, Mandrake?

[cake_crumb]

Great timing on the pic posting ;- )

[Braak]

I am not sure I want to know, perhaps we should simply nuke them anyhow :)

Time for me to pop in the ol DVD and laugh myself silly tonight!