from Nancy Stiefel
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (corner of 16th Street and 27th Avenue) is showing a Social Justice
Film: Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream at 7:00 PM,
Sunday, October 13, 2013.
In the 2012 documentary Park Avenue: Money, Power and the
American Dream, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark
Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his examination of how the
gap between rich and poor Americans has become extremely stark. He illustrates his point by looking at the
famous Park Avenue in New York City.
Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged
the game in their favor” and created unprecedented inequality in the United
States, and he explains why he believes upward mobility is increasingly out of
reach for the poor. Film interviews
include Jack Abramoff, Michele Bachmann, John Boehner, Carol Browner, Eric
Cantor, and David H. Koch among others.
Discussion will follow this 70 minute film that aired on
Independent Lens, a PBS program, in November 2012. Independent Lens champions high-quality
journalism along with point of view documentaries. Its goal is to help viewers
better understand today’s complex world.
The Fair Trade Corner will be open one-half hour prior to the film.
Nancy Stiefel
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