Articles tagged with: “Michael Moore”
Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann - 11/9/10
MOORE: My plea to Mr. Immelt or anyone who's watching here at GE -- I will give them, for free, 'Fahrenheit 9/11' to run on NBC as balance to all this publicity that they've been giving President Bush this week and his answers about how the worst thing that happened ...
Michael Moore Discusses the Midterms on Democracy Now!, November 2, 2010
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to renowned filmmaker, author, activist, Michael Moore. For the past twenty years, Michael has been one of the most politically active, provocative and successful documentary filmmakers in the business. His films include Roger & Me about the corporation General Motors; Fahrenheit 9/11 about Bush and ...
VIDEO: Michael Moore on 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' (Part 2)
Michael Moore on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Thursday, October 4th, 2010:"This is what I love about Republicans. I honestly secretly really admire them because, man they have guts. They come in with both guns blazing. They take no prisoners. What I suggested to you here that played on ...
VIDEO: Michael Moore on 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'
Michael Moore on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010:"When your opponent states clearly that 'our #1 job in the next two years is to make sure you don't have a second term -- our #1 job is to defeat you and to embarrass you,' you don't ...
Being SiCKO in a Tea Party Nation
RENO, Nevada -- I ventured backward in my memories to the fall of 2006 and wondered what might have happened differently if the Tea Party ruled this nation. It’s not that I am thrilled with the current state of political reality, but I am worried that if the trend toward ...
Michael Moore on Larry King Live (Part 5)
"Democrats have got three weeks from today. Get a spine if you're a democratic politician. Stand up and come out swinging for the working people of this country and maybe you'll inspire them to get to the polls. People have got to vote. We can not go back to what ...
Michael Moore on Larry King Live (Part 4)
"The people that are running this year -- on this years ballots in November -- I mean these people are the biggest box of fruit-loops I've seen in quite some time. ... I've just never seen a weirder bunch. From 'I'm not a which' to Carl Paladino in New York ...
Michael Moore on Larry King Live (Part 3)
"Since during the Bush years, when mining safety and things were deregulated and safety standards were relaxed, that's when you started having all these incidents increasing. Again, this Massey Energy, which owns that mine that the workers were killed in back in April. Nobody was really investigating this, including the ...
Michael Moore on Larry King Live (Part 2)
"... Michael Moore the Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who will tomorrow night receive the coveted John Steinbeck Award. That award has been received by Arthur Miller, Bruce Springsteen, Garrison Keillor, Joan Baez and Sean Penn. ... You have always -- even people who oppose you vigorously know that you're a ...
Michael Moore on Larry King Live (Part 1)
"When I see 'breaking news' come on, whether it's CNN or any of these other networks, the words have sort have been cheapened in a way because we put it up for everything now. You put it up for Paris Hilton going to jail -- 'breaking news,' you know, everything's ...
Dems Come Alive! ...a follow-up from Michael Moore
Today's OpenMike blog Friends, Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start. Last week I gave the spineless Dems five friendly suggestions for things they could do on the off chance they were interested in winning the midterm elections on November 2nd: 1. Deliver a ...
October 5, New York City, NY – On October 9th &10th, 2010 filmmaker Michael Moore will again livecast the hearings of the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT), streaming real time accounts of participants, witnesses and family members of the 1970 Kent State shootings that left four students dead and nine ...
Kent State: The Death of Innocence and the First Amendment
Since the beginning of 2010, the Kent State Truth Tribunal has been focused on collecting and understanding the truth about the circumstances that surrounded the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. As new evidence emerges that ...
Former EMT Charles Giles responded on 9/11 and was injured when the towers collapsed.
September 30th, 2010
Senate Must Pass S.1334 for 9/11 Workers
Let me begin by saying thank you to ALL who have fought valiantly and diligently in this fight to get our elected officials to do the right thing. A fight that should have never been. Passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act should be a no-brainer. Many ...
James Zadroga was a NYC detective who died from his 9/11 exposure. HR 847 is named after him and passed today in Congress to provide Health Care for sick 9/11 responders. 982 responders have died since the attacks from our toxic exposure. It has taken our nation 9 years to ...
Thomas Steinbeck is a photographer and an author. He is the son of John Steinbeck.
September 27th, 2010
John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves. Under his guidance ...
Liberals seethe over Dem punt on tax cuts
Liberals are expressing outrage that Democrats are not holding a vote to extend tax cuts for the middle class before the elections.Two weeks after President Obama delivered an impassioned speech on the need to raise taxes for the wealthy, Democrats on Capitol Hill have delayed a vote on the politically ...
Moore receives John Steinbeck Award
TRAVERSE CITY — Hometown filmmaker Michael Moore is this year's recipient of the John Steinbeck Award.The award is given to writers and artists whose work captures Steinbeck's spirit of empathy, commitment to democratic values and belief in the dignity of people who by circumstance are pushed to the fringes of ...
September 21st, 2010
SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "In the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, October ...
Dear Michael Moore:I applaud you for opposing the war back then when most people, including liberal big-leaguers, were so gullible and cowed that they actually supported the Bush crime syndicate's sinister plot. I know you were razzed and attacked for speaking out and I am certainly sympathetic for the hard ...
Barack Obama taps Elizabeth Warren for consumer watchdog job
President Barack Obama, sidestepping a bruising confirmation fight while throwing a bone to his liberal base, announced Friday that he has selected consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren as the architect of the newly-formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency set up as part of the Wall Street reform act. In ...
Filmmaker Michael Moore calls Canada 'shameful' on U.S. war dodgers
TORONTO - Renowned left-wing American documentary maker Michael Moore on Thursday blasted Canada's position on U.S. war dodgers as shameful.Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Moore said Ottawa's refusal to allow U.S. soldiers opposed to the war in Iraq to find safe haven in this country betrays what the ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
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March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
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February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
