MOVIE: “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” by Greg Palast

Thursday, October 10^th at 1:30 p.m at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (SE corner McKinley and Van Ness).  Showing of the film “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”  by Greg Palast.  Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up.” Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership.

This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast’s most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post expose on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris’s stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush’s payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.  The film will be shown again on Monday, October 14^th at 6:30 p.m.  (Greg Palast is to be the keynote speaker on Saturday, October 12^th at the annual banquet of the Fresno Free College Foundation.)