SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE BUDGET CUT Join the Coalition Against Privatization in our speak out against the budget cuts, Friday September 26 4:30 633 3rd Ave (41st) infront of the governors office. We demand full funding for our Education, Health Care, and other social programs. We will also be standing up against the privatization of GHI/HIP. The state is planning on using the money gained from the privatization to fill the holes in their budget. contact: noprivatization@yahoo.com stern.zelig@gail.com 508 524 2118

Housing Foreclosures! Rising Gas Prices! Never-ending war! Corporate controlled elections! It is almost time to elect a new president, but the question is, how much can we hope for change? Join us in a discussion of the 2008 presidential elections at our activist meeting Sunday September 28 3:00. We will have a round table discussion asking questions such as: Is Obama enough? Is there a Socialist Alternative? Should we vote Green? How can this election be used as an opportunity to push politics to the left? Everyone is wellcome. We hope to here from a variety of oppinions and points of view on this complicated issue. A. J. Muste Institute 339 Lafayette Street (between Bleecker & Bond), Manhattan, NYC. Hit buzzer #11; come up to the Muste Room on the 3rd Floor. (No elevator, sorry.)

Stopping the War(s): New Tasks, New Approaches, A discussion featuring Lynn Stewart and a speaker from SDS P.S. 41 (11th St. & 6th Ave.) www.oct11.org

The plot, or rather plots, of " I Am Cuba" feverishly explore the seductive, decadent (and marvelously photogenic) world of Batista’s Cuba — deliriously juxtaposing images of rich Americans and bikini-clad beauties sipping cocktails poolside with scenes of ramshackle slums filled with hungry children and gaunt old people. Using wide-angle lenses that distort and magnify and filters that transform palm trees into giant white feathers, Urusevsky’s acrobatic camera achieves wild gravity-defying angles as it glides effortlessly through long continuous shots. Martin Scorcese said, upon first seeing it in the early '90s (after retrieving one of the two remaining prints from an the national film archive in Moscow) that if he had seen "Yo Soy Cuba" at the beginning of his career, it would have changed his directing style.