Giant Movie Extravaganza Coming to Town!
The Small Town Project is pleased to announce we’ve arranged to bring to Mount Vernon the upcoming film, WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. It’s produced and directed by Robert Greenwald, whose past credits include Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.
The movie will show at the Bijou on Monday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at $1 to help cover the cost of the theatre. The concession stand will be open, so ready yourself for popcorn, Milk-Duds, and Grape Nehi! (Just kiddin’ about the Nehi :cry:)
For advance tickets either call John or Nanci Feeney in MV, or contact us through the “Questions? Email the Host” link on the movie website to find out where to pick up your tickets. For anyone living outside MV and Lisbon, we will have a small “will call” list to enable you to pick up your tickets at show time.
UPDATE: I’m pleased to let you know I’ve just learned there will be another local showing of the film. It will be shown at Cornell College, in the movie theatre section of the Ratt in the Commons building, on Tuesday, November 15 at 7:00 pm. And this showing is free. You now have no excuse for not seeing this important film! 
By the way, WalMart is taking this film very seriously. They’ve even created their own “war room” in large part in response to this movie!
UPDATE #2:Mary Vermillion, author of Death by Discount, a mystery novel about the impact of WalMart on a small town in Iowa, had hoped to be at the showing. Unfortunately she has had to cancel, but she has sent information on her book, and we’ll make it available!
See you there!
October 15th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
John and Nancy,
Democracy for America Linn County (http://dfa.meetup.com/280/) is planning a few showings of the film in Cedar Rapids, and had thought about doing one in Mt. Vernon as well. But, I ran across your showing at the film site. However, several of the members on our mailing list are Mt. Vernonites, so we will advertise your showing when we advertise ours. I don’t know whether I will make it to your showing, as I feel obliged to go to one of the showings sponsored by DFALC, and will have trouble with more than one evening commitment during the work week. Good luck with your showing. I hope you will advertise at Cornell. If you’d like help putting up posters on campus let me know. I’m a faculty member in Psychology.
Sue Astley
Democracy for America Linn County Co-chair
October 15th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Thanks Sue! Yes, we’ll get some flyers or posters around Cornell for sure. I’ll be in touch if we run into any snags with that. Best of luck with the DFALC showings in Cedar Rapids. Sounds like we’ve got this area covered.