| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/23, 9:26 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Tia Lessen and Carl Deal are far from giving up after public television pulled funding for their film "Citizen Koch:" the filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdsource the funds necessary to release their documentary on money, power and democracy.
"David Koch's money may be able to keep the film off the public airwaves, but it can't withstand the power of thousands of small-dollar donors to band together online to get 'Citizen Koch' out to the public,"
said filmmaker Carl Deal.
The documentary features families impacted by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union busting "budget repair" bill, which sparked massive protests in 2011. The Koch brothers backing of Walker's efforts to remake Wisconsin, and the role of the American Legislative ExchangeCouncil (ALEC) is part of the story.
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