McLibel: Two Worlds Collide showing Thursday 7 PM at Stanford

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Thursday, September 29, 7 PM: Stanford Law School Student Animal Legal

Defense Fund presents: " McLibel: Two Worlds Collide " (1997), a

documentary about the fast-food giant's libel suit against

anti-McDonald's activists. In Room 280A, Stanford Law School. Open to

the public. Admission is free. More info: Salena Copeland

(salena). http://events.stanford.edu/events/67/6739/ For

a map, go to http://campus-map.stanford.edu/campus_map/index.jsp and

search for " law school " as the Building Name. More maps are at

http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html

 

For info on this film, see

http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=161

 

McLIBEL is 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 in the longest trial in

English history, 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.

 

McLIBEL is not about hamburgers. It is about the remorseless power of

multinational corporations.