CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Second Sunday Cinema’s free film for Dec. 12 is “The Secret of Oz.”

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the film starts at 6 p.m. at the Clearlake United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake.

This is no children’s movie. This documentary takes a fascinating and penetrating look at a root cause of the current financial misery suffered by so many of us and our country.

The “secret” is simply that our money is printed by the privately owned Federal Reserve rather than the Federal government.

If our money were printed by the government, rather than being borrowed from The Fed, no interest would have to be paid – and untold gazillions of dollars would be saved.

As it is, we are in the hands of bankers, who were as self-serving a century ago as they are now.

Consider this breathtakingly candid quote from a banker’s letter in 1891 to his fellow banksters: “On Sept. 1st 1894 we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On Sept. 1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi as well, at our own price ...” (From the American Bankers’ Association, as printed in the Congressional Record, 1913.)

Frank L Baum’s children’s book expresses his concerns over the same issue in a code featuring the yellow brick road, Dorothy’s originally silver slippers, the Emerald City – and that little man behind the camera. Rarely has monetary policy been so gripping – and so very pertinent.

Creating our own local currency is one very positive solution to this problem. SSC is delighted to report that a speaker from Transition Lake County who heads up the TLC Local Currency working group will be speaking after the film.

For more information call 707-279-2957.