PALAST INVESTIGATION OF FLORIDA VOTE THEFT FEATURED AT HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and TO AIR ON PBS

Counting on Democracy will be featured this Sunday, October 20th at 2 pm at the Hamptons  International Film Festival in East Hampton, Long Island.  Panelists and special guests will include the film's director and producer Danny Schechter, Greg Palast, Louis Posner, founder of Voter March, Alec Baldwin and Bianca Jagger.

In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.   Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - most black - five months before the 2000 election.

While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule this important  report, WNET (New York), KCET (Los Angeles), KQED (San Francisco) and dozens more are insisting on showing the exposé before the mid-term elections.  (See full schedule at GregPalast.com.)    

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Martin Sheen and Greg Palast share "Americas" award

On November 2, Palast will join West Wing star Martin Sheen in Los Angeles where they will share an award from the human rights group Office of the Americas.  The group cites Palast's investigations of the coup in Venezuela and World Bank destruction of the Argentine economy reported for Britain's prestigious Guardian newspapers and BBC Television's Newsnight.

Those wishing to attend the Palast-Sheen award ceremony ($100 including
dinner, $35 without), contact Office of the Americas at officeoftheamericas.org

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UNPRECEDENTED

A second film on the scandal of the vote theft in Florida, UNPRECEDENTED, opens this month in national screenings sponsored by People for the American Way, the NAACP and The Nation.  The Robert Greenwald Production includes exclusive footage from Palast's confrontations with Katherine Harris' vote fixers. Unprecedented will be presented with the "Grand Festival Award" for Documentary at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival, the Festival's highest honor in the documentary category.   This film also screening in competition at the American Film Institute Film Festival and 13 other festivals.    Palast will join directors Joan Sekler and Richard Perez at the New York opening.  For schedules and tickets, go to www.Unprecedented.org.

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Censored in the USA

California State University's Journalism Department's Project Censored named
his Guardian report on President Bush and bin Laden as one of the top five
suppressed news stories of 2001.

For the complete schedule of showings of Counting on Democracy, for
Unprecedented,  and for RealVideo clips of Palast's own reports and his
writings, visit GregPalast.com.

WARNING:  Katherine Harris describes Palast's work as "twisted and
maniacal."