Posted on 05/13/2003 8:35:24 AM PDT by 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."
These bufoons need to be reminded it was because of 'cowboys' like Ronald Reagan we don't have to fear that a Dr. Strangelove like doomsday did not and won't happen.
Exactly. I also liked the movie Dr. Strangelove but I am capable of separating clever art from serious reality.
The serious reality is, Communism and it's grip on the lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people was ended by Reagan.
No, they just find new anti American issues when the old ones play out.
I have been posting that response on thread after thread. You have saved me the trouble on this one! :-)
1) If you are not working through a theater, contact Swank Films at 1-800-876-5577. They handle the rights for showings at places like schools, churches, and VFW halls. They have several 16 and 35 mm prints and any number of videos and DVD’s available. Please contact Swank Films for the cost for renting prints, VHS or DVD's. Remember, you are paying for the rights to show the film in a closed screening. (You know that FBI warning at the beginning of every video?)
It's gonna cost them probably the same amount they would raise in donations, most likely, but at least they'd be complying with the law...
2) If you will be screening the film in an actual theater, they should order it directly from Sony Pictures. The cost to rent a 35 mm print from them is $200. For more information, contact jen@operationstrangelove.org
Same here... however, I suppose they'd do ok on this one and actually take in more than they'd spend - but how many of them will be able to do this?
3) If you’ll be sitting in your barcaloungers passing the microwave popcorn around the den, you can just rent the movie from your local video store, or buy it below and we’ll get a small commission to help us pay our phone bill.
More than likely, 90 percent of them will go this route - and if they accept "donations" then this is where the trouble would come in... of course this is just my opinion...
Easier said than done. I can sure attest to that from my numerous encounters during DC Chapter FReeps of ANSWER, Code Pink, and other leftists.
It's easy to laugh at them, but sometimes hard to keep from getting angry. Like the time that one of the CANSWER guys grabbed a U.S. flag from a patriot on our side of the police line. CANSWER guy ripped the flag to shreds. The nearest police officer wanted to arrest the guy, but that would have opened a hole in the police protecting us from the "peace" activists.
A UPI reporter asked me at one FReep whether I had any use for the "peace" protestors. I said, "none." Thinking again, I said, "well, they do provide comic relief."
You know full well His Slickness is a boob man!
or just a boob...
Jack D. Ripper may be crazy but at least he knows how to properly use a cigar. He might have liked the idea of a president who'd send troops overseas while receiving oral gratification.
The left doesn't understand the satire of this movie.
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