DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS
OF AMERICA
 
 
October 1, 2009
 

NEWS FROM DSA 
A REPORT FROM DSA'S NATIONAL OFFICE


IN THIS
ISSUE
 
 

 

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Michael Moore's  
Capitalism: A Love Story
opens nationwide this weekend.
A great organizing opportunity
 
 
Michael Moore's new documentary, Capitalism: A Love story, on the financial crisis opens nationwide this weekend. The film premiered in New York and Los Angeles on September 23 and has been screened at a number of special events including the AFL-CIO convention.
 
The film is virtually a commercial for DSA's politics. It is getting a tremendous buzz in the media and positive reviews. Chris Maisano will review the film for Democratic Left in the upcoming  issue. I urge every member and friend of DSA to see the film.
 
Here is the link to the Overture Films site. It includes a screening finder, which enables you to find showings in your area and even purchase tickets. (Note that their link offers three services; you may have to try more than one to get the information for your area.) The same link will let you view the movie trailer.
 
But I am hoping that some of you will be able to do more than just see the movie.
 
Moore's films draw large audiences predisposed to our perspective. It is likely that the audience for the film screening will be larger than most progressive events in your community. As such the screenings of this film present a great opportunity to get DSA's message out to a larger audience and to recruit new members to our cause. We have modified two of our standard recruiting flyers so that they respond directly to the challenge made by Michael Moore to his audience at the end of the film.
 
In a number of cities DSA members are organizing to distribute these flyers at screenings of the movie. Please help DSA out by distributing one of the flyers when you see the movie to your fellow movie viewers after the show. They can also be handed to people standing on ticket holders' lines. The reports we have gotten so far are that people attending the movie are receptive to information about DSA.
 
Simply ask people if they want to learn more about America's largest democratic socialist organization, which is working to end the abuses Moore describes in his film. Here are links to the special leaflets (you only need to use one of them) that you can download:

Flyer 1 (featuring Cornel West & Dolores Huerta)
 
 
This film showing is a great opportunity to get visibility for DSA; please help us to take advantage of it. 
 
 
In solidarity,
 
 
 
Frank Llewellyn
National Director
 

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