Please join KPFA Radio at the historic Grand Lake Theater on Wednesday, October 19th at 7:00pm when we welcome iconoclastic media personality Greg Palast for a very special screening of his brand new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman. This live, in-person event will be hosted by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein.
Greg Palast and his investigations team bust the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet — engineered by Georgia’s Brian Kemp to ensure victory in his rematch with Stacey Abrams. You’ll meet Kemp’s army of vigilante vote challengers. One dresses up like Old-West vigilante Doc Holliday with loaded six-gun, one of a posse of right-wing operatives who have challenged over a quarter million voters.
And there’s the hidden story of Brian Kemp, scion of the family that was the first to bring captive Africans to Georgia.
It’s not a story of Democrat versus Republican, but history versus smothered truth.
Greg Palast and his crew are working with Black Voters Matter Fund, NAACP Georgia and other frontline groups to fight the assault on voting rights.
Executive Producers: Martin Sheen, George DiCaprio & Stephen Nemeth
Producer: Academy Award Winner Maria Florio
GREG PALAST is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, BBC Television, Rolling Stone and his string of New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from the Congo to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud on behalf of the US Dept of Justice, 20 attorneys general and governments from England to Brazil. Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes, where he exposed George W. Bush dodging the Vietnam War draft.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN is an award-winning investigative reporter and is the host and executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on Pacifica Radio.
EVENT DETAILS:
Wednesday October 19th at 7:00pm
Greg Palast & Dennis Bernstein: Film screening, discussion and DVD signing of Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman
LOCATION: The Grand Lake Theater3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610
TICKETS: $20 advance / $25 door / limited $15 student or fiscally challenged available
MEDIA CONTACT: Kevin Hunsanger, KPFA Radio: [email protected] 510-684-3401.
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