[van-announce] BUSH TERROR Film Tour

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Black Cat Productions presents:

BUSH TERROR Film Tour
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushterror.pdf

Nov. 29 - Dec. 9, 2004
8 Cities / 9 Screenings

VICTORIA - Nov. 29 & 30
DUNCAN - Dec. 1
NANAIMO - Dec. 2
CUMBERLAND - Dec. 3
COURTENAY - Dec. 4
VANCOUVER - Dec. 7
GIBSONS - Dec. 8
ROBERTS CREEK - Dec. 9

See below for full tour date and venue details.

Following up on the public's overwhelming thirst for infomation
surrounding the events of September 11, 2001, Black Cat Productions
continues its mission to spread critical information, analysis, and
awareness through film and discussion. We are pleased to announce the
"Bush Terror Film Tour" beginning in Victoria on Nov. 30th. The tour heads
up-island to Nanaimo and the Comox Valley before heading to Vancouver and
the Sunshine Coast.

Black Cat's previous road show "911 EMERGENCY" toured the lower mainland
and Vancouver Island in mid-September with a three and a half hour film
presentation which seriously questioned the official story of Sept. 11.
The tour was an overwhelming success with sold-out screenings and
near-capacity crowds at every venue. The Bush Terror Tour follows up with
new and updated information about 9-11, and uncovers the insidious agenda
of the neo-conservative Bush administration who are using Sept. 11 to
usher in their global plans.

Two films will be screened, followed by discussion on the questions:
"Where do we go from here?" and, "What can we do?"

The first film, "THE GREAT CONSPIRACY: The 9/11 News Special You Never
Saw" is the sequel to The Great Deception, the ground-breaking video by
Barrie Zwicker, much of which was featured in the 911 EMERGENCY tour.
Zwicker was the first mainstream journalist in the world to ask hard
questions, in early 2002, about the official story of the events of 9-11.

In The Great Conspiracy, Zwicker analyses the use of fear to befuddle the
public, and deconstructs the so-called "war on terrorism" as a public
control mechanism. He then examines in depth the failure of the military
to function on 9-11 and the entirely inappropriate behaviour of the
president and his aides that day. Finally, the resistance of the White
House to any proper investigation, the extreme taintedness of the 9-11
commission and its drastic underperformance are examined.

Throughout, the compliance and complicity of the mainstream media in
maintaining a trance of ignorance is addressed. And the responsibility of
each thinking citizen emphasized at the end.

The second film, "HIJACKING CATASTROPHE: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of
American Empire" examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has
used the trauma of the 9-11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing
agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back
civil liberties and social programs at home.

The documentary places the Bush administration's false justifications for
war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by
neo-conservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake
of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of
military force.

Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with
more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon
whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how
the Bush Administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to
link the anxieties generated by 9-11 to a pre-existing foreign policy
agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.

Joining Kwiatkowski in a wide-ranging, accessible, and ultimately
empowering analysis of American foreign policy, media manipulation, and
their global and domestic implications, are former Chief UN Weapons
Inspector Scott Ritter, former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, author Norman Mailer, MIT professor
Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, defense policy analyst
William Hartung, author Chalmers Johnson, and Army Special Forces Master
Sergeant Stan Goff (Ret.).

For more information contact:

David Barbarash
604-886-2780
blackcat at resist.ca

Dates, Location and Venue Details

VICTORIA - Nov. 29 and 30
Camosun College
Lansdowne Campus
Fisher Bldg, Room F100
Doors open at 8 PM, films begin at 8:30
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushvictoria.pdf

DUNCAN - Dec. 1
Duncan Garage Showroom
201-330 Duncan St.
Doors open at 6:30 PM, films begin at 7:00
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushduncan.pdf

NANAIMO - Dec. 2
Malaspina University-College
Bldg. 355, Room 203
Doors open at 6:30 PM, films begin at 7:00
suggested donation $5 - $10
A special Worldbridger presentation sponsored by the Dept. of Anthropology
and Dept. of Political Science.
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushnanaimo.pdf

CUMBERLAND - Dec. 3
The Abbey
2689 Penryth Ave.
Doors open at 6:30 PM, films begin at 7:00
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushcomoxvalley.pdf

COURTENAY - Dec. 4
BCGEU Building
910 Fitzgerald Ave., Room 210
Doors open at 6:30 PM, films begin at 7:00
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushcomoxvalley.pdf

VANCOUVER - Dec. 7
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings St.
Labbatt Hall, Room 1700
Doors open at 6:30 PM, films begin at 7:00
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushvancouver.pdf

GIBSONS - Dec. 8
Heritage Playhouse
Doors open at 7 PM, films begin at 7:30
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushsunshinecoast.pdf

ROBERTS CREEK - Dec. 9
Roberts Creek Hall
Doors open at 7 PM, films begin at 7:30
$10 admission, $8 low-income
http://users.resist.ca/~blackcat/bushsunshinecoast.pdf