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Houston theaters are showing Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story starting this week. Over a thousand screens across the United States, a record for an independent documentary, are showing the new offering by the director of Sicko, Roger & Me and Fahrenheit 9/11, among other films. Some audience members are looking for reference material and resources to help understand Capitalism: A Love Story in today's economy. The FIRE Collective is providing to Houston/Galveston residents information on the question of capitalism that has been opened up by this film.

In the coming few days, we should develop an analysis of both Moore's critique of capitalism, and his proposed solutions.

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The new film is Michael Moore's indictment of profiteering by the haves at the expense of the have-nots. Moore represents wide range of troubles in Capitalism: A Love Story, from foreclosures and evictions to the crumbling of major businesses to financial excesses among the wealthy. Moore provides plenty of statistics, research, interviews and news reports to give evidence to the assertions made in Capitalism: A Love Story, and the defenders of unrestricted free enterprise are feeling the heat.

The Glenn Beck crowd is already trying hard to defend capitalism gone wild, and has plenty of people to accuse for what Michael Moore exposes in Capitalism: A Love Story. They say a smaller government and privatizing the world is the solution. A smaller government, they reason, will ensure capitalism's abuses do not occur. But reducing government and its regulations has done nothing more than benefit the upper class, business owners and their friends. Capitalism: A Love Story brings this hypocrisy to light.

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Saturday marks the third annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations. What started out as guerrilla theater has turned into a conversation starter on reparations for the enslavement and slave-labor of Africans and African Americans in the United States of America. African internationalist activism is growing in Houston, and reparations is a vital question in the movement.

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Reparations and Black liberation discussions in Texas are becoming more prominent through the important local work of the Houston chapter of the National Black United Front, led by the national chair of NBUF, Houstonian Kofi Taharka. NBUF also allies with many speakers such as Omali Yeshitela, who comes to Houston soon.

This national day began in 2003 as a performance by artist Damali Ayo, who panhandled for reparations on the streets of various cities across the United States. Reparations has been an important organizing issue, with advocates holding a national Millions for Reparations match in 2002. The organizing kit for the October 10 national action states the following about its origins:

People all across the United States are taking an hour or two to sit in a range of locations in their communities: outside of businesses, libraries, museums, art galleries, or on busy street corners. We wear signs reminding passersby of the history of slavery in the United States. We collect reparations in the form of money from white Americans for the enslavement and free-labor of Africans and African Americans during the establishment and economic rise of this country. This money is immediately paid out to black passersby. Both parties are offered a receipt. We do this to offer a convenient opportunity for American citizens to acknowledge, apologize and compensate the unpaid labor of African Americans, the travesty of slavery, and the rightful due of reparations.

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