[Sci-tech-public] Free screening of Michael Moore's Sicko this Friday, Nov. 9th 7PM in 26-100

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Apologies for any cross postings about this upcoming event.
>
>Sicko
>2007 (PG) 113 minutes
>   Friday, November 9 at 7:00 and **10:30** pm in 26-100
>   Sunday, November 11 at 7:00 pm in 26-100
>
>The November 9 showings of this film are FREE to the MIT Community - 
>sponsored by the Technology and Culture Forum, the Lecture Steering 
>Committee, and the Large Events Fund.
>
>Join us after the 7pm show on November 9 for a special talk by STS 
>Professor David Jones, who will discuss the critical reception of 
>Sicko, situating the film in current and ongoing policy debates about
>national healthcare.
>
>"America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 
>2007 with this health-care-industry expose. SICKO tackles material 
>as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet 
>does so in a way that
>places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's 
>health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on 
>how our nation's medical care system became so ravaged and unfair, Moore
>interviews a series of individuals and families who have had their 
>lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of 
>profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even 
>a legitimate
>discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it's simply 
>impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her 
>mother's health insurance wasn't accepted at a nearby hospital. 
>Moore smartly allows this  and other stories to be told with little 
>or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and 
>deep sadness."
>-- [<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/>www.rottentomatoes.com]
>
>"A persuasive piece of propaganda because it is as entertaining and 
>funny  as it is heart-rending and disturbing."        -- Jeffrey 
>Westhoff, _Northwest Herald_.
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