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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Peninsula Peace & Justice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">P.O.Box 1515<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Blue Hill ME 04614<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; ">BLUE HILL – Peninsula Peace & Justice will present the Oliver Stone documentary SOUTH OF THE BORDER on Friday February 25th. Director Stone <span style="color: rgb(53, 42, 17); ">set out on a road trip across five countries, interviewing seven of the region’s elected presidents. Exploring the new social and political movements, he also reveals the mainstream media’s misperception of South America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The documentary examines the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">free-market</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> economic policies promoted by the U.S. and the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">International Monetary Fund</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> over the last several years, and how they have largely failed to alleviate Latin America's chronic income inequality. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Tariq Ali</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> who collaborated with Stone to make the film has remarked that: "These changes that are taking place are not coming about through armed struggle or </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">guerrilla warfare</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> or </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Che Guevara</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; ">. All these changes have come about through democratic elections. And that makes it a very, very significant development in that continent."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <!--StartFragment--><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(53, 42, 17); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> The film suggests that financial calamities such as the </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_(1999%E2%80%932002)"><span style="color:#2048A8;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Argentine peso collapse of 2001</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">, combined with Latin suspicions of </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia"><span style="color:#2048A8; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">U.S. drug-eradication efforts</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> and resentment over the selling off of natural resources through </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_companies"><span style="color:#2048A8;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">multinational companies</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">, also have contributed to the rise of </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist"><span style="color:#2048A8; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">socialist</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> and </span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-democratic"><span style="color:#2048A8; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">social-democratic</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> leaders across the region.</span></font></div> <!--EndFragment--> <span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></font><br></span><!--EndFragment--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; ">The film will be shown at 7:00 p.m. at Blue Hill Library. It is the second in the Winter Film Series of Peninsula Peace & Justice. Events are free and open to the public. Fmi 326-4405<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><br></span></font></font></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>"How is the War Economy working for You?" -- Veterans for Peace</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>