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SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSUSM president revokes invitation to Michael Moore

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSUSM president revokes invitation to Michael Moore: "SAN MARCOS – University officials have rescinded their invitation to controversial Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore.

The move surprised students and faculty, because late Friday, the student government at California State University San Marcos overwhelmingly approved Moore's appearance and partial payment for the Oct. 13 event – and the approval had been sought by the university.

But Monday, university President Karen Haynes called it off.

According to an e-mail she sent to some faculty and students, the president didn't want Moore speaking on campus before the election because she felt the university would be unable to get a conservative whose stature ranks with Moore's. Haynes was unavailable for comment yesterday and her office referred all calls to a campus spokesman.

"Universities are about the exchange of ideas," Haynes said in her brief e-mail. "Some ideas are uncomfortable, but being exposed to them is how we become confident of our own beliefs and values. That said, however, it is important that discussions be balanced."

But student government official Roy Lee said he plans to ask Moore to come anyway, at a reduced fee, now that the university has withdrawn its support.


By Lisa Petrillo
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Michael Moore to speak at UNR in October

Michael Moore to speak at UNR in October: "Michael Moore is on his way to the University of Nevada, Reno, after the student senate Wednesday approved money for his visit next month.

The 21 senators of the Associated Students University of Nevada Senators voted unanimously to give $6,300 to Flipside - the ASUN Programming Board — to bring the controversial film director to Lawlor Events Center at 8 p.m. on Oct. 13.

“I’m very excited,” said Jacque Pelham, a 23-year old UNR political science student who graduated last year. “It will bring focus to political campaigns even if people disagree with his views.”

But some feel the money from student fees should be used for strictly university projects. People who attend UNR pay $2.85 per credit toward student fees.


Beryl Chong
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL

Baghdad Burning: F911 Review from Iraq Girl Blog

Baghdad Burning: "August was a hellish month. The heat was incredible. No one remembers Baghdad ever being quite this hot- I think we broke a new record somewhere in mid-August.

The last few days, Baghdad has been echoing with explosions. We woke up to several loud blasts a few days ago. The sound has become all too common. It’s like the heat, the flies, the carcasses of buildings, the broken streets and the haphazard walls coming up out of nowhere all over the city… it has become a part of life. We were sleeping on the roof around three days ago, but I had stumbled back indoors at around 5 am when the electricity returned and was asleep under the cool air of an air-conditioner when the first explosions rang out.

I tried futilely to cling to the last fragments of a fading dream and go back to sleep when several more explosions followed. Upon getting downstairs, I found E. flipping through the news channels, trying to find out what was going on. “They aren’t nearly fast enough,” he shook his head with disgust. “We’re not going to know what’s happening until noon.”

So how did I spend my 9/11? I watched Michael Moore’s movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. I’ve had bootleg CD version since early August. (Grave apologies to Michael Moore- but there’s no other way we can see it here…) The copy has been sitting in a drawer with a bunch of other CDs. One of my cousins brought it over one day and said that while it was brilliant, it was also quite depressing and distressing all at once. I had been avoiding it because, quite frankly, I cannot stand to see Bush for five minutes straight- I wasn’t sure how I’d cope with almost two hours.

Three days ago, I took it out while the house was relatively quiet- no cousins, no cousins’ children, parents busy watching something or another, and E. asleep in front of the air conditioner for the next three hours.

The CD was surprisingly clear. I had expected some fuzziness and bad sound quality- it was fine. Someone had made the copy inside a movie theater. I could tell because in the background, there was a ringing mobile phone a couple of times and some annoying person in the front kept getting up to adjust his seat.

I was caught up in the film from the first moment, until the very last. There were moments, while watching, when I could barely breathe. I wasn’t surprised with anything- there was nothing that shocked me- all of the stuff about the Bush family and their Saudi friends was old news. It was the other stuff that had an impact- seeing the reactions of Americans to the war, seeing the troops in Iraq being interviewed, seeing that American mother before and after she lost her son in Iraq.

KSL NewsRadio 1160 (Audio Report)

KSL NewsRadio 1160: "They're demanding a recall election. A petition drive now underway at UVSC to boot student body leaders from their positions. It comes after the student leaders voted to pay controversial liberal movie director Micheal Moore $50,000. KSL Newsradio's Jon Dunn is on the UVSC campus. "

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Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Responses to Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore.com: "'I arrived at 4:30 to a crowd of several hundred people waiting in line to get in, and several hundred more looking for tickets. I stood in line for roughly 15 minutes as more and more people arrived. Your film, of course, was unbelievable, and I had the privilege of laughing, crying, and experiencing it all with 600 fellow Americans. It was everything I hoped it would be and more, and for that I thank you deeply and from the bottom of my heart. Your patriotism and pride are what will bring this country out of the darkness Bush has deserted us in. On exiting the theatre, I discovered a crowd of nearly 1,000 outside, and heard the news that the 7:30, 10:30, and newly added midnight showing had all sold out already.'--P.V."

June 26th, 2004 5:41 am

APC: Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums

APC: Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums: "November 2nd, coinciding with the presidential election, APC will be
releasing a collection of songs about WAR, PEACE, LOVE AND GREED,
entitled 'eMOTIVe.' Featuring new material and songs like 'imagine' by
John Lennon, 'What's goin on' by Marvin Gaye, 'Let's have a war' by
FEAR. This week we will release one of these new songs entitled,
'Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums,' with an
animated video poking fun at our fearless leader. Hopefully, you'll
find it as entertaining as we do.

REMEMBER...

EVERY
SINGLE
VOTE
COUNTS."

"Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums", and watch the animated video poking fun at our fearless 'leader.'

ZNet |Terror War | Nine-Eleven Retrospective

ZNet: "Through the tears of sadness, I see an opportunity.
- George W. Bush, September 14, 2001"

Think about 'how do you capitalize on these opportunities?'
- Condaleeza Rice, White House National Security Adviser, to the United States National Security Council, September 12, 2001.

According to Chicago Tribune columnist Stephen Chapman one day after the attacks, "America" had "become a target" because foreign tyrants and terrorists were threatened by and jealous of our superior, democratic "way of life."By Chapman's estimation, the core ingredients of that glorious American way were "prosperity," "happiness," "openness," individualism, and "love of freedom" for "ordinary people."

Actually, there was nothing surprising about an attack by zealots of Arab background on Washington DC and New York City.The motives behind the attack had little if anything to do with militant Muslim terrorists' feeling about the nature of America's internal society. What bothered them and indeed many Arabs most about America was the United States' external policy in and around the chief area of the perpetrators' concern and ambition - the Middle East itself. If bin-Laden and his followers and ilk were driven by hatred of American freedom and democracy, why were they firmly on the side of the US in the late 1980s, when America enjoyed if anything more domestic freedom and democracy than in the summer of 2001?

Dar Al Hayat: 9/11 Opens in Tehran

Dar Al Hayat: "9/11 is the first American film to be screened in the Islamic Republic for over two decades, due to an undeclared ban of the U.S. film industry's productions in Iran.
An official from The Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF), the exclusive importer of movies for theatrical and video release in Iran said, 'we bought the screening rights of the movie, which started playing last Monday (September 13), and will be initially released in two movie theatres in Tehran only.'

Since Monday, the two movie theatres showing Moore's film have been packed with a sold-out crowd, as the documentary is not only the first American film production to be released in Iran since the 1980's, but is also one of the rarest, if not the only, foreign artistic production not to be cut by Iranian censorship authorities."

IranMania News: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' gets 'axis of evil' premiere

IranMania News: "LONDON, Sept 15 (IranMania) - Cinemagoers in the Iranian capital were given their first glimpse of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' this week, but appeared to enjoy more the rare chance to watch an American movie than its assault on their regime's arch foe George W. Bush.
Michael Moore's Bush-bashing polemic may have cruised through Iran's unforgiving censors thanks to its indictment of US policy, but the premiere of the film also had the side effect of making some viewers relate the same questioning to their own state of affairs.
'The authorities obviously gave the film the green light for political reasons, in that anything against the United States must be good,' quipped one of the hundreds of mainly young people who flocked to Tuesday night's opening screening.

The prize-winning documentary has been allowed out on release here to coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States -- which kicked off a chain of events that has seen Iran surrounded by US troops and lumped into an 'axis of evil'.
'They are showing this film to erase from our minds the idea that America is the great saviour,' said Hirad Harandian, another cinemagoer at the uptown Farhang cinema."

fahrenheit911: I found this C-Span Video of A Bush Speech humorous...

fahrenheit911: I found this humorous..i finally tracked: "I found this humorous..i finally tracked it down on a video. Try Websters Dictionary Mr.Bush...click here (QT)

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Here's what happened to the Republican Party

Here's what happened to the Republican Party: "Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. "