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Title:	King-Drew Panel Discussion & Fire This Time Screen
START DATE:	11/8/2005
START TIME:	7:00 PM
Duration:	3 Hours
Location:	san fernando valley, burbank, glendale
Location Details:
The Onion, 9550 Haskell Avenue, North Hills, CA
Event Topic:	health care
Event Type:	screening
Contact Name:
Contact Email:	kpfk90069@yahoo.com
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DESCRIPTION:
The TUESDAY NIGHT FORUM at "The ONION" will screen the documentary film ?The Fire This Time: Why Los Angeles Burned? Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 7:00 PM The Onion, 9550 Haskell Avenue in North Hills The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Doctors Ernie Smith, MD, Ret. Pediatric Cardiologist & Ernie Smith, PhD, Linguistics Professor of the King-Drew Medical Center The film, which gives a background for understanding Watts today, was made in the wake of the Rodney King verdicts. The King-Drew Hospital was born of the 60s rebellion to a community with a two hour bus ride for medical care. Today it appears that L.A. County Board of Supervisors members Zaroslavsky, Knabe and Antonovich, as well as Dept. of Health Services heads, are in collusion with LA Times reporter Charles Ornstein in a propaganda campaign heading toward the privatization of South Central LA?s only teaching hospital. Come hear the uncensored truth behind the headlines about King-Drew and help your Watts neighbors save their hospital! Screening: 7:30 ? 9:00 PM Panel Discussion: 9:00 ? 10:00 PM ? 405 North, exit left on Nordhoff (westbound) go 2 blocks, then right on Haskell. It?s just past Plummer on your right. .00 donation. For more information, see the article at: www.change-links.org/kingdrew.htm ************************************************* New York Times review of the film: ? The Fire This Time: Why Los Angeles Burned 1994 - USA - Law & Crime/Social History/Race & Ethnicity/Politics & Government Type: Documentary Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes Starring: Brooke Adams Directed by: Randy Holland PLOT DESCRIPTION In 1992, television cameras on the ground and in helicopters caught the violence of an inner city riot in south central Los Angeles, which broke out after the acquittal of several white policemen in the brutal beating of Rodney King, also captured on video cameras. This documentary explores the root causes of the many days-long explosion of violence during which the community seemed to self-destruct. Among the causes of violence the filmmakers illuminate was a plan for inner city redevelopment which was drawn up following the Watts riots of 1965; no one in the black community had any input into the paternalistic plan, and none of the core grievances from the time of that earlier riot were addressed in it. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide - {{PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL21vdmllczIubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vZ3N0L21vdmllcy9tb3ZpZS5odG1sP3ZfaWQ9MTQ5ODYyIj5odHRwOi8vbW92aWVzMi5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS9nc3QvbW92aWVzL21vdmllLmh0bWw/dl9pZD0xNDk4NjI8L2E+}} ************************************************** "Cowardice asks the question: Is it Safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it Right? And there comes a time one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular -- but one must take it simply because it is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "...take a critical look at our own political system and measure it not by its undoubted ability to hold elections but by its ability to serve democratic ends. It will be argued that whether a political system is democratic or not depends not only on its procedures but on the substantive outputs -- that is, the actual material benefits and costs of policy and the kind of social justice or injustice it propagates. By this view, a government that pursues policies that by design or neglect are so inequitable as to deny people the very conditions of life is not democratic no matter how many elections it holds." - Michael Parenti, "Democracy for the Few"

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