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October 10th, 2004

Moore rallies students and democratic hopes in Missouri

Associated Press MARYVILLE, Mo. - Filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore delivered a message of certainty, comedy and Bush-bashing Saturday to about 2,200 people during his visit to the smallest city on his "Slacker Uprising Tour." Moore's stop at Northwest Missouri State University was sponsored by the school's Young Democrats ... continue reading

October 9th, 2004

Filmmaker lambasts Bush during presidential debate

By Patrick Condon / Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS - Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore mounted a raucous political burlesque show Friday night in the University of Minnesota's basketball arena as he watched the presidential debate with about 7,500 people. Moore missed few opportunities to bash President Bush. "Let's get ready to rumble," ... continue reading

October 9th, 2004

Moore brings his message to Twin Cities; calls the political plays

By Jeff Strickler / Star Tribune While the rest of the country watched only President Bush and John Kerry debate Friday night, a crowd of 7,000 at Williams Arena got to see a three-way confrontation: Bush, Kerry and controversial filmmaker Michael Moore. Moore, the director of the anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit ... continue reading

October 8th, 2004

Moore's tour raising eyebrows, ticket sales

Salon Oct. 8, 2004 | SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11'' director Michael Moore is bringing his 60-city Slacker Uprising Tour to Utah, a famously Republican state. Not only that, he's going to one of Utah's most conservative towns, Orem, where his scheduled Oct. 20 appearance has many ... continue reading

October 6th, 2004

Objection to Filmmaker is Propaganda of Its Own

By Michael Paul Williams / Richmond Times Dispatch What is it about Michael Moore that makes people want to silence him? Moore critics tried to stop the distribution of his most recent film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Republicans hurled brickbats at him at the GOP convention, marking the first time in memory ... continue reading

October 6th, 2004

Republicans, Out of Ideas, Ask Prosecutors to Arrest Michael Moore

10/6/04 Dear Friends, You may have heard by now that the Michigan Republican Party has called for my arrest. That's right. They literally want me brought up on charges -- and hope that I'm locked up. No, I'm not kidding. The Republican Party, yesterday, filed a criminal complaint with the ... continue reading

October 4th, 2004

Moore says stand up to Bush

By Lateefa Morehouse / The Oracle Using his humor and sarcasm to convey messages on a subject that is everything but humorous, Michael Moore said his goal is to get American people to vote President George W. Bush out of office. Moore's visit to the USF Sun Dome on Sunday ... continue reading

October 3rd, 2004

Michael Moore's "Slacker Tour" Visits Jacksonville to Rally Voters

By Tiani Jones / First Coast News JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Film maker and activist Michael Moore took to the stage at Metro Park like a Rock Star. Music, light's, and a couple thousand screaming fans cheered him on as he brought his ‘Slacker Uprising Tour' to the River City. "This ... continue reading

September 27th, 2004

Moore Fires Up Crowd in Elk Rapids

By Brian McGillivary / Traverse City Record-Eagle ELK RAPIDS - Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore kicked off his 60-city "Slacker Uprising Tour" by trying to convince area Democrats they are actually in the majority. "Today this is an appeal to what we believe is a Democratic majority in Northern Michigan," Moore ... continue reading

September 25th, 2004

More 'Slacker Uprising Tour' Dates Announced

Michael Moore Launches "The Slacker Uprising Tour" 2004(new dates will be added periodically) Sunday, September 26th Elk Rapids High School - Peterman Auditorium Elk Rapids, Michigan Monday, September 27th Ferris State University - Wink Arena Big Rapids, Michigan & Central Michigan University - Rose Arena Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Tuesday, September ... continue reading

September 25th, 2004

Michael Moore On Tour; Slackers of the World, Unite!

9/25/04 Dear Friends, Tomorrow I begin a little 20-state, 60-city tour to try and convince the fed-up, the burned-out, and the Nader-impaired to leave the house for just a half-hour on November 2nd and mark an "X" in a box (or punch a chad or touch a screen) so that ... continue reading

September 24th, 2004

Past 'Slacker Uprising Tour' Appearances

Monday, October 4th, 2004 Gainesville, Florida... University of Florida, Stephen C. O’Connell Center Mike and Congresswoman Corinne Brown address the press. Give yourselves a round of applause. Sunday, October 3rd, 2004 Conway, Arkansas... University of Central Arkansas, Reynolds Performance Center The line to get in was not a bad place ... continue reading

September 23rd, 2004

Mike Rocks Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey

Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author Michael Moore brought his 'Slacker Uprising Tour' to Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey in what turned out to be the best attended event in the history of the college. The controversial director of "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Bowling For Columbine" and "Roger and Me" ... continue reading

September 23rd, 2004

Moore brings political perspective to Syracuse University

by William Kates / Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Documentarian and liberal rabble-rouser Michael Moore railed against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq and implored a sellout crowd of 10,000 people to vote in the Nov. 2 election. "You can't sit out this election. You must vote," he ... continue reading

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I signed this full-page ad in the New York Times calling on President Obama to close Guantanamo now: http://t.co/PgP0tDDxgW #closegitmo

May 24th
10:58 AM
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ALL killing is wrong. Just sayin' let's not feign shock when those innocents we've massacred might know ppl who may want to kill u or I.

May 24th
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I am outraged that we can't kill people in other counties without them trying to kill us! http://t.co/CaQrq7YEzO http://t.co/IaiXUaUQro

May 23rd
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Major congrats to Tavis Smiley whose 2,000th show will air Friday night. Honored to have participated in one or two or ten of them! #Tavis10

May 22nd
5:47 PM
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Disaster Porn. That's what it is. TV, just admit that's what you're doing. This isn't news. It's lazy, it's a distraction & it's fake. Stop.

May 22nd
1:47 AM
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More commentary on the efforts to kill "Citizen Koch" by WNET/ITVS: http://t.co/zUMeCBoO46

May 21st
8:54 PM
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"Bring Back Ken Starr" And u said Bill Keller couldn't write anything stupider than his column backing the Iraq war: http://t.co/BWvZTqND5U

May 21st
5:49 PM
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More on the attempt to suppress my friends' Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Koch Bros/Citizens United documentary: http://t.co/ZnxporOc7Y

May 21st
12:27 PM
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But, thanks to fear of the Koch Bros, YOU may never see it. At least not on PBS. This stuff goes on all the time, u just never hear about it

May 20th
10:30 PM
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They worked on BowlingForColumbine & Fahrenheit9/11 & made the Oscar-nom film Trouble the Water. I've seen their KochBros film & it's great!

May 20th
10:23 PM
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A stunning NewYorker piece today about my colleagues Tia Lessin & Carl Deal & how their KochBros film is being killed http://t.co/MtLpPoOGlu

May 20th
9:55 PM
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Right now on HuffPostLive: Carl Deal & Tia Lessin discuss how the film was killed by Koch Brothers http://t.co/cd8FRDZtuy

May 20th
4:30 PM
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Malcolm X's b-day. At 4yrs old, white supremacists in East Lansing, MI set his house on fire. FD, all white, just stood by & watched it burn

May 19th
10:32 PM
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RT @wastedsummers: @MMFlint Lots of people assuming Kanye meant new in the sense of recent, he means new in the sense of post-legal America…

May 19th
4:34 AM
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"@Myrone07: Yes he did!! They'll be mad once they run the tape again. Watch & see." I agree. West Coast-u will not see(onTV)what we just saw

May 19th
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RT @marionbarryjr: @MMFlint Not "new". The slavery loophole has been active since the passage of 13th amend. We need to take profit out of …

May 19th
12:53 AM
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RT @PleasureDanger: @MMFlint except...it's not new....the racist prison industrial complex has been locking up black/brown ppl in dispropor…

May 19th
12:52 AM
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Wow. Kanye! Did that just air on TV? Amazing. "We da new slave." #SNL (CCA = Correction Corporation of America - the private prison system)

May 19th
12:48 AM
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So it turns out the War on Terror is never going to end: http://t.co/SWMx4HKjmI Why? See Fahrenheit 9/11: http://t.co/3G3PqrrMNo

May 18th
4:06 PM
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Great time last night on Bill Maher (& @galifianakisz !). Sat next to good-looking brainiacs S.E Cupp & Andrew Ross Sorkin. May've worn off.

May 18th
4:04 PM
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Close Guantanamo Full Page Ad To Appear in New York Times ...by Emma Kaplan www.michaelmoore.com An irresistible and irrepressible demand must well up from...

May 23rd
1:29 PM
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Last night on the Colbert Report -- "I guess for a donation of $75 you get the PBS tote bag. And for $23 million, you get PBS's nut sack." May...

May 23rd
9:48 AM
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I signed this ad about the Guatanamo hunger strikers and calling for the prison to be closed that will appear in the New York Times tomorrow: Our Message in...

May 22nd
8:54 PM
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Statement about “A Word From Our Sponsor,” by Carl Deal & Tia Lessin www.citizenkoch.com We decided to go public with our experience hoping that, like the...

May 22nd
12:10 PM
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Problems at PBS, From Rose to Koch www.fair.org It is a fascinating and frightening look at how this kind of pressure works, where a public TV station is so...

May 21st
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Mass Rally for Bradley Manning! Ft. Meade, MD. June 1 | MichaelMoore.com www.michaelmoore.com Sponsored by the Bradley Manning Support Network and the...

May 21st
9:45 AM
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How Far Did PBS Go To Placate Sponsor? - HuffPost Live live.huffingtonpost.com The Koch brothers are a frequent boogeyman for liberals due to their vast sums...

May 20th
5:20 PM
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Read this blockbuster New Yorker article about how public TV cowardice helped defang one documentary criticizing the Koch Brothers and then defund another...

May 20th
8:21 AM
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Tonight! It's yours truly and Zach Galifianakis on Bill Maher, 10 PM ET/PT (rerun at 11:30 PM ET/PT) on HBO. HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher: Homepage...

May 17th
6:59 PM
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ICYMI -- It's time to re-up our walks! Got the flu in March & that threw off my routine. Decided to get back at it. Join me! We're on twitter at...

May 16th
8:05 AM
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The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo ...by Ray McGovern www.michaelmoore.com We have been spared hearings on how 86 of the remaining 166 prisoners at Guantanamo...

May 16th
8:04 AM
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I just signed this, and hope you will too: Urge NYT Public Editor to Investigate Biased Reporting on Venezuela & Honduras | NYTimes eXaminer...

May 15th
9:19 AM
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My Breasts and My Life Not as Valuable as Angelina's ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com What of the women like me who do not have insurance or enough...

May 14th
5:38 PM
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Daily Kos: Thomas Friedman, private eye www.dailykos.com Click to embiggen

May 14th
1:01 AM
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The first Mother's Day in 1870, proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe (author of Battle Hymn of the Republic), was a call for peace and disarmament: ...

May 12th
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The workers of Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors, seen during their 2008 sit down strike in 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' just opened a new...

May 12th
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It's time to re-up our walks! Got the flu in March & that threw off my routine. Decided to get back at it today. Join me! We're on twitter at...

May 11th
10:04 PM
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Please check out this post from Cathy Youngblood, a housekeeper at the Hyatt Andaz in West Hollywood, and the campaign she's a part of, Hyatt Hurts:
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May 10th
3:23 PM
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The workers of Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors, seen here during their 2008 sit down strike in 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' are opening a...

May 9th
8:13 AM
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Michael Moore touts Mayor Bloomberg’s gun control campaign: ‘It’s wonderful!’ www.nydailynews.com Michael Moore isn't known for his high praise of...

May 8th
1:46 PM
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Ribbon cut on new downtown movie theater www.amny.com Filmmakers Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock Tuesday welcomed the arrival of an all-documentary theater...

May 8th
12:54 PM
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'And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth' ...by Tom Engelhardt www.michaelmoore.com

May 7th
5:16 PM
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Reminder: The U.S. Government Lies About Who Uses Chemical Weapons in the Mideast ...by Jon Schwarz www.michaelmoore.com The State Department guy who lied in...

May 6th
6:22 PM
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From This Modern World: Daily Kos: Threat assessment www.dailykos.com Click to embiggen

May 6th
3:57 PM
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RootsAction | Nominees for Worst Government Official act.rootsaction.org Here come three new Obama nominees, and they could all be nominees in a contest for...

May 6th
2:36 PM
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Donna Smith, seen in 'SiCKO' and a contributor to MichaelMoore.com, has a new blog: Donna SiCKO's Blog donnasicko.blogspot.com

May 5th
2:48 PM
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Bill Maher Slams Hype Over Boston Bombing Case Don't Let Terrorist 'F-ck-Ups' Scare Us www.youtube.com Bill Maher closed out his show tonight...

May 4th
4:13 PM
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Health Care Injustice in America – Painful Reality ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com So, how did I get myself to the place where I do not have coverage?

May 2nd
7:15 PM
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Top Economist Unloads On Wall Street & White House - HuffPost Live live.huffingtonpost.com Economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs...

May 2nd
12:13 PM
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The Pope Called One Of The Foundations Of The Global Capitalism System 'Slavery' www.businessinsider.com Pope Rips Bangladesh Slave Labor

May 2nd
10:58 AM
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