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The film will be shown on Sunday, Oct. 9, at Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave., in Clearlake.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the film starting at 6 p.m.
Recently Paul Ryan, head of the House Budget Committee, accused President Obama of fomenting “class warfare” by suggesting that the richest Americans should pay “their fair share” of taxes.
This film makes it utterly clear that the very opposite is true. In fact, the very richest have long waged a quiet and incredibly successful economic war against the rest of humanity – including the middle class today.
See this film (for free, as always) and you will better understand the causes of the economic misery the world is currently suffering.
In fact this documentary, released in 1996, predicts the very Great Recession in which we currently find ourselves.
Recessions and depressions don’t “just happen.” They are carefully engineered by the ruling elite to transfer even more money – and hence power – into their own hands.
This film is not a work of art, nor does it enjoy great production values. Here, it’s the content that matters. It is information-dense, and ends with a detailed, well thought out proposal to end this country’s cancerous deficit relatively simply and with relative lack of pain.
You know how cancer cells form a mob, and seize nutrients and space dedicated solely to their own growth? According to the film’s writer and narrator Bill Still, this is how the Federal Reserve and other global central banks function today and since their establishment.
If you are motivated to understand why so many of us are struggling, and what we might do about it, this film is for you. It runs one hour, 45 minutes in length.
For more information call 707-889-7355.
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The reading will begin at at 7 p.m., at St. John’s Church, Lakeport.
“The Fall of the House of Usher" will be the centerpiece, but a sampling of Poe's poetry and a shorter work entitled “Three Sundays in a Week” also will be included.
There will be a short discussion period after the performance. The event is free.
According to www.americanliterature.com, “The Fall of the House of Usher” unfolds in a gloomy and foreboding atmosphere that draws the reader in as the story builds in suspense while traveling toward its climactic conclusion.
St. John’s is the historical church at 1190 N. Forbes St., at the corner of Clearlake Avenue, in Lakeport.
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Her visit, sponsored by local book group, “The Bad Girls Book Club,” brought answers to many questions about the creation and characters found in her highly acclaimed novel, “Into the Forest.”
Translated into 12 languages, “Into the Forest,” is an eerily realistic apocalyptic tale set in Northern California.
According to Publishers Weekly, “From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the … narrator pull the reader in. A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell’s 1984.”
Guests expressed great concern about the book’s conclusion and their hopes for the future of the story’s main characters and not-so-futuristic society.
Hegland, a writing instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College as well as an accomplished author, shared her enthusiasm for The Big Read and book groups in general.
“That’s what the Big Read is all about, groups reading books in common. Everyone intersects with a book differently … it’s exciting to get the conversation going,” Hegland said.
The Lake County Big Read is a National Endowment for the Arts program, co-sponsored by Arts Midwest and the Lake County Office of Education.
Grantees work with the community to create diverse, interesting and creative connections to literature through community partnerships.
For more information about Jean Hegland, visit her Web site, www.JeanHegland.com.
For more information about the Lake County Big Read, and future events, visit
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