[Reader-list] Operation Strangelove:Show your dissent. Show the movie.

[Avishek Ganguly]

>Dear friends, family, etc. --
>
>Stop cowboy diplomacy:  “Operation Strangelove” has
>arrived!
>
>Be part of a national action of dissent on May 14,
>2003.  This may be the easiest, and funniest,
anti-war
>protest you’ll ever be involved in.  All you have to
>do:  Put on a screening of "Dr. Strangelove" ­ in
your
>living room, at the local theater, on campus, on your
>laptop, anywhere you can.
>
>It’s as simple as that.  And if you want, you can
also
>raise money for groups still working hard for peace,
>justice and relief in Iraq.  We have large theaters
>booked in New York and Los Angeles already.  Check
out
>our web site
>http://www.operationstrangelove.org
>for a complete do-it-yourself event kit—no screening
>is too small to count.  Pass it on.  The only way
this
>works is if we get the word out quickly!
>
>Keep checking our web site for added features.  If
you
>can’t register your screening yet, come back soon.
>Life is a work in progress.  The rest of this message
>is more info on “Operation Strangelove,” but let me
>know if you have any questions, and most important if
>you’re gonna host a screening.  Thanks!
>-- Patrick, Lizzy, Jen and the folks at Operation
>Strangelove
>_______________________________
>
>Pre-emptive strikes. Cowboy diplomacy. Men conspiring
>in the War Room, bent on world domination. Weapons of
>mass destruction. And most terrifying of all, an
>invasion begun for one overwhelming reason: precious
>fluids.
>
>Forty years after its filming, the dark and
>explosively funny "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped
>Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb" seems like a
>satirical time bomb planted by Stanley Kubrick and
>Terry Southern, set to detonate on Bush’s doctrine of
>unilateral warfare, anytime, anywhere.
>
>As the war on Iraq winds down (at least on TV), as
the
>perils (and profits) of occupation loom, and as the
>Bushies plot the next pre-emptive strike, Operation
>Strangelove aims to show the lunatic warmongers in
>their true light.
>
>On May 14, put on a screening of "Dr. Strangelove" ­
>in your living room, at the local theater, on campus,
>on your laptop, anywhere you can ­ and say no to
>unilateral invasions, to endangering our troops for
>the sake of oil, to flouting international law and
the
>world community in the name of empire. Follow the
film
>with discussions, forums, debates. Keep talking. Keep
>acting. Let’s give new meaning to the old Strategic
>Air Command motto: "Peace Is Our Profession."
>_______________________________
>
>Operation Strangelove grew out of the Lysistrata
>Project which inspired more than 1,000 groups to
stage
>readings of Aristophanes’s bawdy anti-war play in 59
>countries and all 50 US states early this March and
>raised more than $100,000 for peace and humanitarian
>groups.
>
>Now, more than ever, it’s critical that we raise our
>voices above the din and keep our message focused.
>
>Remember:  "War is too important to be left to
>politicians."
>
>http://www.operationstrangelove.org


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