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Activist and Academy award winning film maker Michael Moore has been front and center in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His 2009 film Capitalism: A Love Story, laid bare many of the predatory corporate actions that led to the recession. Addressing a number of Occupy encampments these past weeks, Moore has called for “replacing capitalism as we know it.” Ever since his critically acclaimed film, Fahrenheit 911 and his pointed criticism of President Bush during the 2003 Oscar ceremony, Moore has become a convenient target for the right, and to this day is harangued by questions and criticism conservatives wouldn’t dare inflict on others. At Occupy Portland, a right wing blogger kept heckling him during his speech, asking if he was a member of the 1%, claiming his net worth was $50 million, and asking if he was going to fly out on his corporate jet. In his latest book, an autobiography called “Here Comes Trouble,” Michael Moore exposes the myriad death threats, physical attacks, and calls for his assassination that have become a daily part of his life ever since his political documentaries have put conservatives on the defensive. He also paints a picture of his years growing up in Flint, Michigan, his passion for activism from an early age, his various stints at publishing papers, and his run-ins with Bobby Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Michael Moore’s deeply honest autobiography unapologetically reveals much about his colorful life and how it made him one of the most important muckrakers of our time.

Moore’s 2009 film, Capitalism: A Love Story is a film he said he’d “been making for the past 20 years.” It is a chronicle of the impact of free-market capitalism – quite different from early American versions of capitalism that was highly regulated and imposed hefty taxes on the wealthy. According to the LA Times, “perhaps the most startling thing about “Capitalism” is that Moore stands revealed not as some pointy-headed socialist but as an unreconstructed New Deal Democrat who admires Franklin D. Roosevelt, believes in increased democracy and opportunity, and feels that the decades-long weakening of unions has fatally weakened America. The fact that this will be a controversial stance says as much about today’s political culture as it does about Moore’s place in it.”

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Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore – hard cover book – $150

Uprising Fall 2011 USB Memory Stick – $120

Michael Moore Pack (book, USB, Capitalism: A Love Story DVD) – $250

Special thanks to the Craft and Folk Art Museum for donations of passes. CAFAM is located at 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 and online at www.cafam.org.