Bristol Indymedia Film Night: War Made Easy & The Peace Tax

bristol | media and culture | feature Thursday October 30, 2008 11:42 by imcvol

Mon @ Cube Cinema 3rd November / 8pm / £4/3 nobody refused entry for a lack of funds

Official selection at 11 film festivals including the Montreal World Film Festival, Bristol IndyMedia is proud to present "War Made Easy", the acclaimed documentary by Norman Solomon and narrated by Sean Penn. War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. The film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. The film will be introduced by Robin Brookes, one of the Peace Tax Seven. The Peace Tax Seven are a small group of dedecated UK citizens who are going to the European Court of Human Rights to claim the right for Conscientious Objectors to have the Military part of their taxes diverted to a peace fund. Full article.

| Bristol Indymedia Film Night: War Made Easy, introduced by Robin Brookes, of the Peace Tax Seven | Venue: Cube Cinema: Dove St South (off Kings Square), Bristol | www.warmadeeasythemovie.org | www.peacetaxseven.com | Some Other Events of Note: Afrika Eye's British Black Film programme: Burning An Illusion (1st Nov)| Bristol Radical History Week continues tonight (now till 4th Nov) | Free Fireworks Party at Trinity (1st Nov) | Critical Masses in Bristol (31st Oct) & Exeter (1st Nov) |

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