GE Documentary

["e. ahmet tonak" <eatonak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just saw the following GE documentary, which was very good in
exposing the anti-worker/anti-community corporate policy of  GE.  It may
be rented/purchased through the following email address of  the
filmmaker, Mickey Friedman:

mickey <mfried@xxxxxxx>

<http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%257E23899%257E1028715,00.html>

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The local newspaper Berkshire Eagle's coverage of the screening:

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - GREAT BARRINGTON -- The Housatonic River
Initiative/ Housatonic Riverkeeper will sponsor a special pre-release
screening of Mickey Friedman's feature-length documentary, "Good Things
to Life: GE, PCBs and Our Town" on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Mahaiwe
Theatre.

Shot over a 12-year period, the documentary features interviews with
former GE Pittsfield Managers Ed Bates and Charles Fessenden, many
former transformer workers, former Pittsfield Mayor Remo Del Gallo,
George L. Darey, chairman of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and
Wildlife; state Rep. Christopher Hodgkins, D-Lee, and the HRI
Director/Housatonic Riverkeeper Tim Gray.

According to an announcement from HRI, the documentary offers a look at
how "workers were exposed to PCBs, how PCBs moved from the GE Pittsfield
plant to the surrounding ground water, Silver Lake and the Housatonic
River, and were trucked to dump sites throughout the area."

Former GE workers will also talk about the "GE PCB-fill give-away
program that ended up contaminating more than 150 homes and small
businesses," the announcement said.

Friedman was recently invited to screen an excerpt of "Good Things to
Life" at the Independent Feature Project's competitive 24th annual IFP
Market. It is being considered by several film festivals.

HRI is asking for a suggested donation of $5 to help distribute the film

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E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics

Simon's Rock College of Bard
84 Alford Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230

Tel:  413 528 7488
Fax: 413 528 7365
www.simons-rock.edu/~eatonak





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