[Corporations] Sept. 27 screening of "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" in SF

[CounterCorp]

	The 2006 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival

		presents a benefit film screening event

		“IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers”

   Find out who’s getting killed — and who’s making a killing

		Wednesday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
			   Brava Theater Center
		    2789 24th Street, San Francisco

	In his previous film ("Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price"),  
director Robert Greenwald showed the insidious and far-reaching  
effects of 'Godzilla capitalism' on ordinary people across the U.S.  
and around the world.

	Greenwald's latest work, "IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers",  
examines what happens to everyday Americans — and Iraqis — when  
corporations go to war, revealing the inside story of the soldiers,  
truck drivers, widows, and children whose lives have been changed  
forever as a result of the staggering amount of corporate  
profiteering in post-invasion of Iraq.

       The film uncovers the connections between a small group of  
private U.S. companies that have made literally billions of dollars  
doing jobs that the military used to do — and that the Iraqis  
themselves could do better, faster, and cheaper — and the  
policymakers and bureaucrats who have allowed these firms to turn no- 
bid contracts into a license to steal from American soldiers and  
taxpayers.

       Among the waste, fraud, and abuse documented in the film:
  · Halliburton executives living in five-star hotels while providing  
unsanitary water to U.S. troops, burning perfectly good cars and  
trucks just so that they can buy new ones, and “losing” $9 billion in  
cash
  · Blackwater, a private mercenary army that masquerades as a  
“security company” and operates with near total impunity in Iraq,  
cutting corners in order to make even more money and getting four of  
its employees killed in Faluja
  · CACI and Titan, two virtually unknown companies in the U.S.,  
providing the untrained guards and nearly useless translators who  
brought about the humiliation, torture, and national disgrace known  
as Abu Ghraib

       Although the privatization of the Pentagon began long before  
the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the sheer extent and brazenness of the  
profiteering in Iraq — and the total lack of government oversight or  
accountability for a handful of well-connected American corporations  
— have resulted in the deaths of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians,  
alienated most of the Iraqi population, turned Iraq into a  
recruitment and training center for militant Muslims, and helped to  
foment a sectarian civil war that threatens the stability of the  
whole region, and beyond.

       The film will be followed by a panel discussion, and preceded  
by a protest at the headquarters of war profiteer Bechtel Corporation  
at 50 Beale Street in San Francisco (Embarcadero BART) from 4:00-6:00  
p.m., led by Global Exchange/CodePINK and other members of the  
Declaration of Peace coalition (www.declarationofpeace.org).

	Tickets are $10 and are available online at www.countercorp.org, or  
at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. Beer, wine, and munchables will  
also be available for purchase at the theater (cash only). Proceeds  
go to cover the costs of the 2006 Anti-Corporate Film Festival in  
November. For more information on the screening or the festival  
itself — as well as downloadable flyers and e-calendar events — visit  
www.countercorp.org.

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