Steal This Story, Please!

Description

With shrinking newsrooms, media monopolization, weaponized social media, and a president deliberately eroding public trust in truth and reality, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! offers an intimate counterpoint, showing how independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Set against some of the most consequential stories of our time—from the war in Gaza to the global climate catastrophe—the film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman over 30 years. As she becomes a leader in the movement for independent media that amplifies voices excluded from the mainstream, she faces off against forces trying to silence her.

Join us on May 10, as Amy Goodman and Academy Award-Nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin will be in attendance at the noon screening for a Q&A following the film.

Additionally, director Carl Deal will offer an extended introduction to the 6:30pm screening on May 10.

Community Partners: Riverwest Radio, Cactus Club, Jewish Voice for Peace - Milwaukee, ACLU of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Turners, Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)