From countercorp-news at countercorp.org Fri Sep 18 18:55:22 2009 From: countercorp-news at countercorp.org (CounterCorp News and Events List) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:55:22 -0700 Subject: [CounterCorp] NEXT Saturday, Sept. 26: Arts Expo and Benefit Screening of "Crude" Message-ID: Dear CounterCorp supporters, We're thrilled to announce our first 2009 events since the 4th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival last May. Coincidentally, both of them take place on Saturday, Sept. 26 -- the 10th Annual Expo for Independent Arts in Golden Gate Park during the day, and a benefit screening of the powerful new film "Crude: The Real Price of Oil" later that night. Read on for more details ... 1) THE TENTH ANNUAL EXPO FOR INDEPENDENT ARTS -- This is *the* blow- out, San Francisco grassroots arts event of the year, and takes place on the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park (last year it was in Dolores Park, but it's gotten too big) from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. In addition to over 200 exhibitors (see a partial list at the bottom of this e-mail), the Expo also includes a performance showcase, a live art exhibition called the Four Corners Mural Project, and a sculpture garden. The list of performances includes: 11:00 Bawdy Storytelling Readings 11:30 Raging Grannies Music 12:00 Circus Bella Juggling 1:00 W. Coast Accordion Babes Music 1:30 Axis Dance Dance 2:00 Rad Dad & Pamtastic Readings 2:30 Temple of Poi Poi spinning 3:00 Irina Rivkin Folk music 3:30 Dancers Group Performance 4:00 Gay Jitterbug Dance Lesson 4:30 Jesse & The Man Cougars Music 5:00 Bunny Pistol Burlesque The Golden Gate Park Music Concourse is between the DeYoung Museum and the Academy of Science, a short walk from the N-Judah Muni train and the 5 Fulton, 6 Parnassus, 43 Masonic, 44 O'Shaughnessy and 71 Haight bus lines. Paid parking is also available. Stop by the CounterCorp booth to say hi and buy a t-shirt if you don't already have one! 2) BENEFIT SCREENING CO-PRESENTATION: "Crude: The Real Price of Oil" -- CounterCorp is honored to be co-presenting the San Francisco theatrical premiere of the new documentary film"Crude" on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 9:00+* at the Lumiere Theater, 1572 California Street (at Polk Street) in San Francisco. [* The exact time of the screening hasn't been announced yet, but will be on Monday afternoon.] Three years in the making, "Crude" is an epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal dramas in history, which has the potential of forever changing the way international business is conducted, set against a backdrop of global politics, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous habitats and culture. While the environmental impact of the consumption of fossil fuels has been increasingly documented in recent years, the films focuses on the human cost of our addiction to oil and the increasingly difficult task of holding a major corporation accountable for its past deeds. The landmark case pits 30,000 indigenous and colonial inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador against U.S. oil mega-corp Chevron. The plaintiffs charge that Chevron (corporate successor to Texaco, which it bought in 2001) spent three decades systematically contaminating one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, poisoning the water, air, and land. This has created a "death zone" in an area the size of the Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multitude of other health ailments. Chevron claims the case is a complete fabrication by "environmental con men" seeking to line their pockets with the company's billions. Shooting in dozens of locations on three continents and in multiple languages, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger ("Brothers Keeper", "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster") and his crew gained extraordinary access to players on all sides of the fight and beyond, capturing the drama that unfolded as the case grew from a little-known legal case to an international cause celebre. The case -- and the film -- have special relevance for the Bay Area, because Chevron is headquartered in nearby San Ramon, the site of numerous demonstrations over the past year (and in the coming year) as environmental and anti-corporate activists ramp up the pressure on Chevron to clean up its act -- both literally and figuratively. Director Joe Berlinger will be at the screening and will do a Q&A afterward. We also hope to announce another screening scheduled for October at the "Crude" screening. The 9:00+ screening on Saturday, Sept. 26 is a benefit for the 5th Annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival, which takes place in May 2010, and includes seating in a reserved section of the theater. PLEASE NOTE: To guarantee a reserved seat and support CounterCorp, you must buy your tickets either online at or at the theater *from a CounterCorp representative* -- tickets purchased at the box office do NOT benefit CounterCorp. For more information, e-mail events at countercorp.org or call (415) 568-5739. We look forward to seeing you there! * * * Thanks as always for your support and participation in CounterCorp events -- we couldn't do any of this without you! =============================== PARTIAL LIST OF ARTS EXPO EXHIBITORS (by category) Artist Services Adventures in Advertising / Fresh Ideas Art Network California Lawyers for the Arts Center for Cultural Innovation Dancers' Group FullCalendar FunCheapSF Funksville Mission: Comics & Art Swankety Swank Community Arts 57th Street Gallery AMIES CELLspace coffee bike! The Lab patchwerk press & Rock Paper Scissors Collective priscilla's parasols Raging Grannies Action League Trash Mash-Up Media (audio/video/etc) 2MinuteFinance The Art Institute of CA -- SF CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival DreamSchemeProductions Friends of KUSF IndyBay: San Francisco Independent Bay Area Media KALX 90.7 FM Newsdesk.org Oddball Film+Video / San Francisco Media Archive Planetwize.com The Public Press San Francisco Cinematheque SF IndieFest VisibleVoice: Visual Media Arts Education For Bay Area Youth Women's Audio Mission Women's Film Institute Literary Arts 16th & Mission Comix Alameda County Equality Team Bawdy Storytelling Bay Area Independent Publishers Association The Fabulist (Illuminated Media/Pharos Publications) Manic D Press New Village Press PM Press rad dad zine RE/Search Publications San Francisco Zine Fest Performing Arts The Bay Bridged center for unauthorized repairs Circus Bella Indie Abundance Intersection for the Arts ME'D1.ATE mission creek music & arts festival Rose Street Harmony Tours San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Songbird Festival Temple of Poi Visual Arts art xx magazine Blackbird Photography Flash Publications Global Hobo last gasp books Lisa Maxwell Portraits missfoghorn design Precita Eyes Muralists Paper Organics Jewelry The Present Group San Francisco Museum of Modern Art www.webtales.us San Pancho Art Collective Scrounger's Center for Re-Usable Art Parts (SCRAP) # # # CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual 5th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, May 2010 www.countercorp.org Get the latest CounterCorp event details on your computer/ iPod: webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics Subscribe to CounterCorp's "Corporation Watch" e-mail list: For more information, visit http://www.corporationwatch.org Donate to CounterCorp by selecting us on the drop-down menu at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695 From countercorp-news at countercorp.org Tue Sep 22 17:09:06 2009 From: countercorp-news at countercorp.org (CounterCorp News and Events List) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:09:06 -0700 Subject: [CounterCorp] THIS Saturday, Sept. 26: Benefit Screening of "Crude: The Real Price of Oil" Message-ID: <9E065D82-4CF7-416F-8B99-991230306BE8@countercorp.org> Dear CounterCorp supporters, This is just a quick update to let you know that the benefit screening of "CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil", the San Francisco theatrical premiere of a powerful new documentary about the career criminals at Chevron Corporation, takes place this Saturday, Sept. 26, at 9:45 at the Lumber Theater, 1572 California Street (at Polk Street) in the city. Three years in the making, CRUDE is an epic story of one of the largest and most important legal cases in history, which has the potential of forever changing the way international business is conducted. While the environmental impact of the consumption of fossil fuels has been increasingly documented in recent years, CRUDE focuses on the human cost of our addiction to oil and the increasingly difficult task of holding a major corporation accountable for its past deeds. The landmark case pits 30,000 inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador against the mammoth U.S. oil corporation. The plaintiffs charge that Chevron (corporate successor to Texaco, which it bought in 2001) spent three decades systematically contaminating one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, poisoning the water, air, and land. This has created a "death zone" the size of the Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multitude of other serious health problems. Chevron claims the case is a complete fabrication by "environmental con men" seeking to line their pockets with some of the company's billions in annual profits. Shooting in dozens of locations on three continents and in multiple languages, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger ("Paradise Lost", "Brothers Keeper", "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster") and his crew gained extraordinary access to players on all sides of the fight and beyond, capturing the drama that unfolded as the case grew from a little-known legal case to an international cause celebrate. The case (and the film) have special relevance for the Bay Area: Chevron is headquartered in nearby San Ramon, the site of numerous demonstrations over the past year -- and in the coming year, as environmental and anti-corporate activists ramp up the pressure on Chevron to clean up its act, both literally and figuratively. Director Joe Berlinger will be at the screening and will do a Q&A afterward. The 9:45 screening on Saturday is a benefit for the 5th Annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival, which takes place in May 2010, and includes seating in a reserved section of the theater. PLEASE NOTE: To guarantee a reserved seat and support CounterCorp, you must buy your tickets either online at or at the theater *from a CounterCorp representative* -- tickets purchased at the box office do NOT benefit CounterCorp. For more information, e-mail events at countercorp.org or call (415) 568-5739. We look forward to seeing you there ... And thanks as always for your support and participation in CounterCorp events -- we couldn't do any of this without you! # # # CounterCorp: Putting An End to Business as Usual 5th Annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival, May 2010 www.countercorp.org Get the latest CounterCorp event details on your computer/ iPod: webcal://icalx.com/public/CounterCorp/CounterCorp.ics Subscribe to CounterCorp's "Corporation Watch" e-mail list: For more information, visit http://www.corporationwatch.org Donate to CounterCorp by selecting us on the drop-down menu at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695