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1999: Coca-Cola Introduces Dasani Bottled Water
(Water, Water Everywhere, but Not a Drop for Free?)
Wednesday, October 5, 5:30–7pm
Free community forum at AS220
TONY CLARKE, Director, Polaris Institute, Author, Inside the Bottle: An Exposé of the Bottled Water Industry
GEOFFREY SEGAL, Director, Privatization & Government Reform, Reason Foundation
DEIDRE CONSOLATI, Led citizen’s resistance to municipal water and sewer privatization in Lee, MA
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1934: Diego Rivera’s Mural in Rockefeller Center Destroyed
(Can Art Bite the Hand that Feeds It?)
Tuesday, October 11, 5:30–7pm
Free community forum at AS220
ANTHONY LEE, Associate Prof. Modern & Contemporary Art,
Mt. Holyoke College; Author, Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera,
Radical Politics, and San Francisco’s Public Murals
PAUL BUHLE, Senior Lecturer, American Civilization, Brown University;
Author, Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
JULIA BRYAN-WILSON, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art
and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design
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1976: The Fair Use Doctrine Incorporated into Copyright Law
(Whose Idea Is that, Anyway?)
Wednesday, October 19, 5:30–7pm
Free community forum at AS220
MARJORIE HEINS, Founder, Free Expression Policy Project,
Brennan Center for Justice; Board of Directors,
National Coalition Against Censorship
DAVID BOLLIER, Editor, OnTheCommons.org;
Author, Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture
MICHAEL HERMANN, Director of Licensing,
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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On Television: Public Trust or Private Property [1988]
Monday, October 17 at 9pm
TV Screening on WSBE Rhode Island PBS Ch. 36 / Rhode Island Cable Ch. 8
A documentary exploring the contemporary reality of the 1934 Communications Act, which authorized commercial television licensing toward serving “the public interest.” |
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Sunday, October 23 at 8pm
Radio Broadcast via WRNI 1290 AM |
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1999: Seattle Anti-Globalization March
(The times—are they a-changin’?)
Wednesday, October 26, 5:30–7pm
Free community forum at AS220
NORM STAMPER, Former Police Chief of Seattle; Author,
Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side
DENNIS BRUTUS, South African poet and political activist
imprisoned with Nelson Mandela
ROBERT LAWRENCE, Albert L. Williams Professor of International
Trade and Investment, Harvard University; Author, Crimes and
Punishment: Retaliation under the WTO and Globalphobia
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Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest [2005]
Monday, October 24 at 9pm
TV Screening on WSBE Rhode Island PBS Ch. 36 / Rhode Island Cable Ch. 8
A documentary tracing the history of protest music from the early American union movement to Vietnam resistance to Live Aid, with appearances and music by everyone from Bob Dylan to the Beastie Boys. |
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Sunday, October 30 at 8pm
Radio Broadcast via WRNI 1290 AM |
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