Common Bonds of Indianapolis

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Our election process has become increasingly undemocratic. If ever there was a time to reclaim our democracy it is now. The Citizens’ Summit seeks to educate and mobilize individuals and groups to develop a comprehensive plan for fairly funding political campaigns. Join concerned citizens, community leaders and activists as we examine our current system, and learn to develop more democratic alternatives. The Summit will feature plenary panel discussions, an Interactive Café, a variety of workshops.

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IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."   While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences.   IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

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Pat McGeever's latest play, "Jolly Old Saint Dick; A Brief Christmas Farce," will be read on Sat. Dec. 16 at 10 am at the monthly meeting of Alliance for Democracy of Indiana at its new location, the Abbey Coffeehouse, 825 N. Pennsylvania (right across from the once-and-future main library).  For more info, email Pat McGeever at iztd100@iupui.edu