Tomorrow: Film Screening of *McLibel* in Oakland

[Guest guest]

Film Screening of *McLibel*

 

Wednesday, June 28

Time: 7:30 PM

Location: Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland

 

Film Info:

 

" Two activists take on McDonald’s in the longest trial in English

history. This documentary film tells the inside story of how a single

father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald’s Corporation.

Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave

Morris as they are transformed from anonymous campaigners against the

fast food giant into unlikely global heroes. Struggling to defend

themselves, the pair face infiltration by spies, secret meetings with

corporate executives, 40,000 pages of background reading, and a visit

from Ronald McDonald. Using interviews with witnesses and

reconstructions of key moments in court, the film examines the main

issues of the trial -- nutrition, animals, advertising, employment, the

environment -- and the implications for freedom of speech. This film is

not about hamburgers. It’ s about the remorseless power of

multinational corporations. "

[http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/mclib.html]

 

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Christine Morrissey

East Bay Animal Advocates

P.O. Box 1406

Martinez, CA 94553

(925) 487-4419

christine

http://www.eastbayanimaladvocates.org