What should be Michael Moore's next film/project?

[ThatsMyBarack]

Suggestions?

[librechik]

1. How trhe votes are counted and who has a better democracy around the world

[Sparkly]

4. Oooh, that's good too!! nt

[midnight]

30. That is exactly what I was going to say.

It would be great if he could get it out by this Christmas. It would give us enough time to have these diebold machines required to reveal the source code,and a paper audit system, so that their would be more transparency.

[Sparkly]

2. MEDIA!!! nt

[brettdale]

6. the media is a good idea

He should produce a movie like outfox two.

[brettdale]

3. New Orleans

New Orleans

[uppityperson]

45. Katrina non-response, LA and MS

[hiaasenrocks]

5. Money in politics.

I'd like to see him expose precisely how both parties are bought and paid for by large corporations, lobbyists, etc.

[Auggie]

52. Yep -- corporate ownership of government

[0007]

7. Unionizing the working class and taking the fight to

corporate America.

[rndmprsn]

8. ELECTION SYSTEM USA 101

could tie in electronic voting, voter suppression by GOP, media and corp influence, R-W think tanks, politicking etc...

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Absolutely - the abject failure of the media. Follow the money. Right to the GOP.

What an interesting story it would be....all media - radio, TV, print. Would we have the stomach to watch it, I wonder?

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[rzemanfl]

11. A documentary about Al Gore's inauguration in 2009. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

12. Food; family farms vs Corporate farms

A good honest look at the vertical food chain; what the true costs are; who makes the real profit.

[Reterr]

49. That is a good one too

I wish he would do that one.

[XemaSab]

54. Good call

Something not many people know about

[Booster]

13. Exposing the tv evangelists, absolutely, for the frauds they are.

[SoonerPride]

14. New Orleans

Can touch on many issues

1. More Bush failures
2. Great American city = great American tragedy
3. Treatment of the poor in America
4. Race in America. Had this been a "white city" would it still be devastated and a mess? (under Bush, yeah probably)

[antigop]

15. During one of his interviews, he mentioned he had already started on his next project. n/t

[malaise]

16. The Media n/t

[JudyM]

17. Agribusiness travesties.

How animals are grossly mistreated, how the meat industry is responsible for more global warming than cars (the U.N. found this to be true and noone ever talks about it, not even in the concerts today - causing destruction of rainforests at an alarming rate, massive doses of methane to the air!) not to mention the runoff is destroying our water supply...

[and-justice-for-all]

18. The Oil Industry...nt

[QC]

19. The transformation of student aid into indentured servitude.

You don't hear much talk about it, but it's one of the major reasons for the near end of class mobility in this country.

[durtee librul]

20. How about a history lesson on HOW our congressq

is supposed to work and do the will of the people....and not their own.

Which of course, leads to another poster's idea of follow the money.

[SoCalDem]

21. "Electile" Dysfunction n/t

[slipslidingaway]

22. Media! n/t

[slipslidingaway]

23. Recommended n/t

[Bluebear]

24. Televangelists

[Buzz Clik]

25. An examination of Congressional leadership (both sides of the aisle)

He could call it "Whores and Chickens"

[Tikki]

26. America's thrown away preteens and teens....

living on the streets.

Seems like no one wants to talk about this today....
I think some people think it all ended in the 70's.


Tikki

[chknltl]

27. Lobbyists

Nuff Said!

[BlueJazz]

53. Yep...I'm with Ya Pal....

[mitchum]

28. The media (n/t)

[Skittles]

29. OUTSOURCING

yes INDEED

[Raejeanowl]

31. A Documentary Film on the Badness of King George?

Or more entertaining still, he should get together with the surviving members of Monty Python and do a touring musical called SHAM-alot.

:silly:

[Middle finga]

32. The coporate take over of our government

[BlueAlert]

33. The court system

If there's anything that favors the rich.......

Yet should be equal to all Americans.........

[marions ghost]

34. I have to go with Election corruption

which ties into other corruption. This is what needs to be given the Michael Moore torchlight next IMO. It is basic to our survival as a democracy. And election stuff confuses a lot of people. Moore's dissection of how it "works" would be an eye-opener for so many Americans who blindly trust the process.

I also think MM could do an excellent job comparing the preferential treatment given to white collar criminals vs. street criminals. Violence, loss of resources, and loss of life due to white collar crime is undermining this country, right on up to the offices of the Unitary Executive. And the Justice system does not have what it takes to deal with it.

Good hypothetical question, even tho MM probably has his next topic selected.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

35. First "voter ID", then the GOP's partial restoration of SLAVERY through incarcerating

disproportionately high proportions of young African-American and Hispanic young men.

Tables at http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/tost_6.html show that Federal/state incarceration was falling before Niixon took office. Since Reagan's election, federal, state, and local incarceration has risen by 337 percent, disproportionately among minorities. Incredibly, more than 7 percent of ALL African-American men in their 20s and 30s were incarcerated in federal and state prisons at survey time in 2005, compared to 1 percent of Caucasian men in the same age group.This might be considered tantamount to a 6 percent RESTORATION OF SLAVERY for young African-American men.

"Voter ID" is a fiendishly clever GOP scheme to disfranchise disproportionate proportions of urban and/or elderly non-drivers, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. Even most Democrats don't understand Prince of Darkness Jame's Baker's brightest idea, and tend to go along with it. This situation has to be corrected before rules get set for the 2008 presidential election, and Moore is best positioned to do the explaining, by finding people who were disfranchised last time in Missouri and Georgia.

Skyrocketing incarceration, often to profit the "prison industrial complex", has dire consequences for the Democratic vote (disproportionately urban and poor prisoners vote in only one state), for the economic status of minority children (their fathers CAN'T earn wages to support them), and for education rates (felons can't get school loans, thanks to Republican "tough-on-crime" legislation). This is the leading "elephant in the living room" story the mainstream media refuse to touch.

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. Banning Gay Marriage?

[terrya]

38. In an interview in the current Advocate, he was asked about just that.

He's open to the idea.

[ikojo]

37. I think he ought to showcase families trying to survive

on a moderate income...those who make too much to qualify for any type of government assistance. Show those working class people who vote for repugs that they are voting against their class interests.

I think the fallacy of the poverty levels need to be exposed. Michael Moore is the person to do that in an entertaining, non wonkish way.

[Nucular Terrorist]

39. The harmful Israel-America connection

It's an issue nobody on the left and the right is willing to touch besides Carter.

Some people still don't know why the "terrorists" dislike the United States.

[ThatsMyBarack]

43. Welcome to DU, Nucular Terrorist!

:hi: :patriot:

[puffthemagicdragon]

40. Growing gap between rich and poor n/t

n/t

[KillCapitalism]

47. I second that. n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

41. Gas prices and vehicle sizes

Giant SUVs to compensate for small hoo-hahs....that sort of thing....

[Labors of Hercules]

42. "Bowling for Chumps"... The Politico-Corporatization of Religion in America. nt

[applegrove]

44. Neocons

[Greyhound]

46. How the global economy really works and who it works for. n/t

[Reterr]

48. The destruction of the environment

I thought I heard he was working on something 9/11 related again though-I forget where I read that though.

[Yukari Yakumo]

50. I... don't know

Moore is someone who likes to throw stones at hornets nests. With that in mind...

Election machines/reform -- Been there, done that w/ "Hacking Democracy". Not sure what else he could add to this aside from getting more publicity.

Environment -- Been there, done that w/ "An Inconvenient Truth". Nothing more he could add there.

...

errrrmm... I dunno...

OH! I have an idea.

Point the cameras at the cops. I'm sure he can find enough stuff on dirty cops to make a movie from.

[vireo]

51. "Michael Moore's Uprising"

Directed by Moore, the concert film, which is in post-production, is in two parts. "Live in London" documents Moore's fall 2002 London one-man stage show, "The Average Everyday Evildoers," which was sold out for its entire five-week run at the Roundhouse Theatre in Camden. Filmed after the release of "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Live Across America" covers Moore's 62-city college fall 2004 tour to drum up the youth vote for the presidential election.

"It's not only an incredible record of our time," said Harvey Weinstein, "but it is unbelievably hilarious."

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=Cannes2007&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965282&cs=1

View trailer: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8353617817237544154

Moore also is working on a sequel to Fahreneit 911, scheduled for release next year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433561/

[Venus Dog]

55. The MEDIA-CORPORATE Connections

and how they control everything! Quit buying their CRAP!!

[Kip Humphrey]

56. R.N.C. ...Who Stole the United States of America and Why