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Michael Moore has produced a film - FREE for download. Slacker Uprising! Sign up to download the entire movie for free! Available Tues, 9/23/08!
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"Slacker Uprising" takes place in the wake of "Fahrenheit 9/11," during
the run-up to the 2004 election, as I traveled for 42 days across
America, visiting 62 cities in a failed attempt to remove George W.
Bush from office. My goal was to help turn out a record number of young
voters and others who had never voted before. (That part was a success.
Young adults voted in greater numbers than in any election since
18-year-olds were given the right to vote. And the youth vote was the
only age group that John Kerry won.)
What I encountered during the tour and the filming was both inspiring
and frightening, so I thought, hey, this might make for a funny and
enlightening movie! Each night, thousands would show up to volunteer in
the Slacker Army against Bush. This drove local Republicans nuts. In
one state they tried to have me arrested. At two colleges, rich donors
offered to donate more money to the college if they would ban me from
campus. Nearly a half-dozen universities kept the Slacker Uprising tour
off their campuses. But there was no stopping this movement. By the
time we got to Florida, 16,000 people a night were showing up.
It was clear that young people were the ones who were going to save the day -- just as they are in this year's election.
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