I worry those who really need to see SICKO won't ever see it

[Quixote1818]

First watch this video with Tony Benn in SICKO. What he said here is perhaps the most important thing said in the film : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUzKlmp-x8

Now how can we distribute this film to the poor? It needs to be donated to the poor and then we need to make sure they vote! If the poor voted in respectable numbers then Democrats would win every time and we could begin to make a difference. As Frank Luntz once said, if Democrats could tap into all the poor people who don't vote they would win in a landslide every time. It can be done but it's people like us who care that need to help tap into this enormous well of poor people who don't vote and energize them! It's up to us to make a difference. Michael is trying to educate people but it's up to us to take the ball from Michael and keep it rolling. Sure, you and I will all go see SICKO and wish and hope it will make a difference, but by its self SICKO won't do squat. However, if it has a grass roots effort behind it to help get the message out to those who most need to hear it then its message can turn elections our way and we can clean up this greed driven corrupt system. In my opinion the key to change is a grass roots effort to tap into the huge well of Democrats who don't vote. One idea is somehow distributing this film to the poor so they can see how they are being forgotten!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Well, Michael gave us permission

to copy the DVD off the internet and pass it around as long as we don't sell it. SICKO is not scheduled to be in ANY theater within driving distance for the foreseeable future, so we've copied the film and made sure to put it in the hands of folks who wouldn't go see it anyway. We've made conversions, and those who have seen it via us are planning to go see it in theaters if it ever gets there.

[Locrian]

8. how?

I have the gvi file - and I have been able to convert to AVI. But how do I burn it to a normal DVD disc so that people w/o a computer can see it??

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. My husband did it

He says it depends on the software you have. You have to have software that burns AVI to DVD discs.

[Raven]

2. Take a friend, take a neighbor to see it. That's what I'm doing! n/t

[bobbolink]

3. I'm poor. Very poor. I've voted all my life since I was of age.

So have many.

AFter all the effort I've put forth to try to get liberals interested in poverty and TO TAKE ACTION, I've finally come to the point of giving up.

We are the forgotten ones, and I don't see that changing.

Yes, we are a huge number of "votes", if you wish to see us that way.

BUT.... don't expect us to vote against our own best interest, and vote for candidates who don't even MENTION us.

There's much you can do, in the time that's left, if you want to.

The first step is to LISTEN to US, and hear our pain and our priorities, rather than taking your issues to us and expecting us to get all excited about them, without hearing what WE NEED.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Consider the fact that the industry that has probably contributed

more to the deaths from heart disease, diabetes and possibly cancer hold fundraisers to assist schools with their financial shortfalls. Pray tell when will the heroin dealers be holding fundraisers for methadone treatment facilities????


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/15/MN171577.DTL
Teachers at a South San Francisco school are being asked to pour milk shakes, salt fries and flip burgers at McDonald's to raise money for their school -- and some of them are burned up about it.

McDonald's calls it "McTeacher's Night," a fund-raiser set up by the fast- food chain that gives 20 percent of the profits for teachers who volunteer three hours behind the counter. While they can always use extra cash for the classroom, some Martin Elementary School teachers believe it's degrading for them and unhealthy for the kids, who are encouraged to bring their families to dine at the Golden Arches.

"We will be endorsing a product that contributes to the epidemic of childhood obesity and heart disease, even though the state dictates that we teach students to avoid junk food," said first-grade teacher Rebecca Coolidge.

In the past two years, the fast-food giant has expanded its McTeachers Night event to 2,500 schools in 14 western states. Last year McDonald's donated $500,000 through the program, and schools earned about $800 each.

[Soulshine]

7. Disgusting

What's sad is the FDA approved school lunches aren't much healthier than McDonald's anyways! Some schools only cook (not just reheat from a cardboard box) 6 out of 30 meals a month.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Bad food, bad grades, bad behavior, poor mental function....

bad food, not just for breakfast anymore.

www.HRIPTC.org

[onecent]

5. Hell it's not showing within 35 miles of me. Live in suburb of

Kansas City, MO

[Soulshine]

6. Well, I wouldn't say they don't vote....

There is a huge amount of distrust there. I think that we have to realize that Party partisan bickering has hindered everyones credibility with those who are not firmly in one camp or the other. Republicans have been good a getting them emotionally and scaring them with "socialism", but have ignored them in anyway that counts. We can get them back, but we can't scare them either. Sometimes I think we liberals have all these great Ideas to take care of people and it scares the people not used to being taking care of. They start hearing the Republicans in the back of their heads saying 'How much is that gonna cost you?' or 'You think they're really gonna pull that off?' We need to get them used to being taken care of one issue at a time and Health care is ripe for it. But we have over 300,000,000 people, and they aren't healthy. I thing the first priority that doesn't really cost anything at all is to kick sugar out of schools. I've been saying that since I saw Supersize me! It's amazing what changing a kids diet will do for their overall health for years. Second we let Medicare bargain for drug and medical device costs, that would actually save money. Thirdly restructure the FDA so that ALL products they review prove that they are safe, cause right now it's up to an underfunded under staffed FDA to prove that it's not safe. That's a backward way of looking at things. Do that and Universal Health care doesn't cost near as much. I haven't actually seen SICKO yet, but it is on my list. I'm excited to see someone bring this stuff up again.

[SmokingJacket]

11. It's not the poor who need to see it -- they KNOW already.

Every poor person I know is already on board with single-payer health care.

I worry about the comfy, "I have great insurance, America is great!" contingent. They've already been told that Michael Moore "exaggerates" and "stretches the truth" by our mass media, including the reprehensible NPR.

[applegrove]

12. It has been released early enough in the 2008 election cycle that

it will make it to video, then to the TV in time for the elections. Great timing actually.