TODAY 2:40 and 7:30. Live Q&A afterwards
STEALING AMERICA: VOTE BY VOTE, a new documentary by Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman on corruption of the U.S. electoral process, is showing in Philadelphia beginning Friday, Aug 22 through Thursday, Aug 28. Showings are at 2:40 pm & 7:30 pm at the Ritz at Bourse (400 Ranstead St. -- 4th St. between Market & Chestnut). I did Q & A after the opening show on Friday, and will do Q&A for 30 minutes after each showing today (Sunday) and maybe tomorrow. Lynn Landes, who also appears in the film, has organized the Philadelphia showings and is also doing Q&A.
The film received a great review from the Philadelphia Inquirer: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20080822_Vote_fraud__crumbling_democracy_s_bedrock.html
Posted on Fri, Aug. 22, 2008
Vote fraud, crumbling democracy's bedrock
By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4)
Stealing America: Vote by Vote begins with a quote from founding father Thomas Paine: "The right to vote . . . is the primary right by which other rights are protected."
Dorothy Fadiman's persuasive documentary ends with accounts of massive vote switching; hacked, whacked voting machines; and destroyed voting records. Both of George W. Bush's presidential wins are called into question.
If the film shows a liberal bias, it also makes the point that rigged elections are antithetical to everything this country stands for. In one of many clips from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show mixed in with the talking-head interviews (economist Paul Craig Roberts, pollster John Zogby, Ohio State Sen. Bob Hagan), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is asked about allegations that his uncle stole the 1960 election by fixing the ballots in Illinois. JFK's nephew winces at Stewart, then says voter fraud is wrong, no matter who the perpetrator.
It's a people's issue, the film emphasizes time and again. Not a red-state, blue-state, liberal or conservative one.
Stealing America lays out one jolting scenario after another: lost, miscounted and deleted ballots, incidents of racial bias at the polls, and sworn testimony before Congress from computer engineers who say computerized voting machines can be, and have been, tampered with.
And the mainstream news media - the networks, CNN, newspapers - also are culpable, Fadiman says, failing to address voter concerns, and ignoring off-the-chart discrepancies between historically accurate exit polls and final tallies in the 2004 election.
Stealing America: Vote by Vote is sobering. The film suggests that come Nov. 4, the votes of Republicans, Democrats and independents alike might not be counted fair and square.
Thomas Paine must be spinning in his grave.
All shows of "Stealing America" for the next week will be followed by live Q&As featuring Steve Freeman, Lynn Landes and other interviewees featured in the film. film.
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For more information about the film, go to http://www.stealingamericathemovie.org/. The film has a rolling nationwide schedule with the following dates:
Detroit: Aug 22nd thru 28th at the Main Art 3 3118 North Main Street, Royal Oak, MI
Minneapolis: August 22nd thru 24th, 7 pm at the Oak St. Cinema 309 Oak St.
Washington, DC: Aug 29th thru Sept 4th at the E Street Cinema 555 11th Street NW
Boston: Aug 29th thru Sept 4th at the Kendall Sq Cinema One Kendall Sq. Cambridge, MA
Santa Fe, NM: Aug 29th thru Sept 4th at the Devargas Mall Cinema 6 562 N Guadalupe St.
