Battle In Seattle film crit

Dear all,

I'm sending you all some links below about the film "Battle in Seattle" which opens tomorrow.

The first link is Amy Goodman's show ("Democracy Now") this morning with Stuart Townsend, the writer and director of the film and David Solnit, a "key organizer of the anti-WTO protests." Check it out for yourself. According to David on this show, "everyone in the movement is pleased to see [the film] out." I don't know who he has talked to but, from what I can see in the trailer about the film, it beyond fucking sucks, its a reactionary film...to say nothing about the representation of anarchism, anarchists, and anarchist politics in the film (for example, see comments by one of the main actors, Charlize Theron on the Daily Show last night).

Any ways, at least Amy Goodman mentioned the edited book that AK Press is putting out later this year (edited by David and Rebecca Solnit).

cheers, Jose Palafox

see: www.realbattleinseattle.org

read: An Anarchist review of Battle In Seattle

(I welcome all reviews/critiques of this film. I have not seen it yet but am very curious. -shane)