Common Bonds of Indianapolis

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Panelists include R. George Wright, IU School of Law; Diana Hadley, Indiana High School Press Association, and Teresa Wright, Noblesville High School Journalism Advisor. For more info, visit aclu-in.org

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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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This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

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Join us for a short meeting, refreshments, and a screening of a new video on media by Nick Hess, Vice President of Public Access of Indianapolis. Everyone is welcome.

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Center for Inquiry Teen will meet on Thursday October 26 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Au Bon Pain, 901 Indiana Ave. for discussion of current political and social topics of interest to the group.  Email Caroline at CFI-Teen-owner@yahoogroups.com  for details. CFI Teen is a group of high school age teens interested in peace and social justice issues. We are politically and socially liberal. We are atheist or theist, including non-mainstream religions. We utilize science and reason in forming our worldview.