Slackers, unite and uprise!
September 5, 2008Read this morning that Michael Moore is going to release his next film online for free.
Slacker Uprising is a film about the pre-election U.S. campus tour that Moore did back in ‘04. His hope was to get students to register to vote in November.
I actually attended one of the more controversial stops in his tour.
My friend & coworker Karen and I took an extended lunch break from work on Oct. 20, 2004 and drove down to Orem, in Utah County, to attend his speaking engagement at Utah Valley State College. The student council had been threatened with expulsion and even violence for having used school funds to book Moore’s appearance there in that reddest of states. There were bribes offered and teeth gnashed over this. It was pretty funny (as an outsider, anyway) at the time.
There has already been one film made about this particular tour date; that film is This Divided State, made by (then-amateur) Utah filmmaker Steven Greenstreet, which I saw when the Salt Lake Film Society screened it at the Tower Theater, if I recall correctly.
But Moore has finally come out with his own version of the story and, of course, the timing is not surprising.
Go here to sign up to download the film.
(H/T to PopCandy for my first glimpse of this news.)
Uggh - Rosanne? Really? Actually I thought it was pretty funny all the uproar his visit caused. Honestly I can’t quite figure out what the movie really is though - is it just commentary on his getting people to vote and the uproar it caused?
Comment by Craig — September 5, 2008 @ 12:56 pm