Wednesday, October 15th, 12:30 p.m. – “Hacking Democracy” (Film, 81 min.)
Selected / Presented by
Professor Donna Rhea, Government Faculty at HCC Northwest College

"It is hard to imagine .. a documentary... more important to the civic life of the nation." (Baltimore Sun) A nonpartisan, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism and incompetence of elections in present-day America as it captures a citizen's movement intent on taking back elections - and DEMOCRACY ITSELF. Documents American citizens investigating anomalies and irregularities with ‘e-voting’ (electronic voting) systems that occurred during America’s 2000 and 2004 elections, especially in Volusia County, Florida.

Nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

A lively discussion led by Professor Donna Rhea will follow this film as this issue "heats up for this election season".

Recent media focus on this issue -
*New York Times article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27093919/
*Democracy Now - Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/9/greg_palast_on_vote_rigging_and

The REEL - FALL 2008 September 3rd - November 12th
Culture Film/Speaker Series of Learning Enrichments since 2001!
Town & Country Center - Northwest College - HCC

FREE & OPEN TO ALL HCC STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF & FRIENDS OF NWC
Information: Dr. Ann Bragdon, Anthropology/Sociology Faculty NWC
713-718-5642 or ann.bragdon@hccs.edu.