CRUDE:
The Real Price of Oil
Thursday, March 11
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation

Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures.

Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. “Absolutely the most powerful, emotion- provoking, heart-wrenching documentary I have ever seen.” (John Perkins, Author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)

The Most Endangered
Activist in America
Cheri Honkala
Thursday, March 18
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$10-$20 suggested donation
for the Poor People’s Economic
Human Rights Campaign’s
“March to fulfill the Dream”

She has been called the most endangered activist in America. Cheri Honkala has been arrested over 200 times while demonstrating, committing civil disobedience and organizing for the human rights of America’s poor and homeless.

Cheri has lived on the streets as a single mother and knows intimately the daily struggles to obtain the most basic of necessities when your poor and homeless. Cheri will be talking about her life as a frontline activist for the poor as well as the upcoming “March to Fulfill the Dream”, a multi-racial march and caravan led primarily by poor and homeless, which will begin on April 4th in New Orleans and end on July 22 in Detroit. The march will be a continuation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last dream of a world without poverty.

Cheri Honkala and Son
Mark Webber Speak
Friday, March 19
7:00 PM
Tattered Cover Bookstore
(Historic Lodo)
1628 16th St, Denver
$10-$20 suggested donation

For the first time ever America’s leading organizer for the poor and homeless Cheri Honkala will be sharing the stage with her son, writer/director/actor Mark Webber speaking of their personal experiences living in poverty while often homeless, living in cars and abandoned buildings.

Cheri Honkala has been called the most endangered activist in America and has been arrested over 200 times for demonstrating, committing civil disobedience, and organizing for the human rights of America’s poor and homeless. For over 30 years she has been setting up tent cities, planning housing takeovers of vacant government buildings, leading marches and caravans, educating poor people about their rights, and giving talks on poverty in America. As a single formerly homeless mother she speaks with authenticity from her direct experience. She offers a vital perspective on the issues of poverty that you don’t hear from politicians, administrators, or even academics.

Mark Webber is Cheri’s son. He grew up in poverty in Minneapolis and the slums of North Philly. He learned to act while in school and pretending to his classmates and teachers that he wasn’t poor and homeless. As a teenager Mark began acting in movies and in 2000 he was cast in the film Snow Day starring Chevy Chase and Chris Elliot. Since then Mark has appeared in dozens of films with such notable actors as Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Peter Fonda, Bill Murray, and Woody Allen.