Free film showing

"DIRTY WARS"  The award-winning documentary film  based on the book by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, will be shown  one night only at the Storrs-Mansfield Unitarian-Universalist Meetinghouse, 46 Spring Hill Road (2/10ths of a mile off Route 195/Storrs Road) two miles south of downtown Storrs.  The second Monday of each month  a documentary film is screened, free of charge.  The Second Monday Film Series has a Face Book page you can like and join to  keep  updated with each  forthcoming film.  The audience is  welocme to stay to  talk about the fim after the screening, too.  Free parking, and refreshments.                                                                                                      It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. The rules of the game and of engagement have fundamentally changed. Today drone strikes, night raids and U.S. government targeted killings occur in all corners across the globe, killing untold numbers of civilians. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill (author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Mercenary Army) traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret fighting force in U.S. history, exposing operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is off-limits for the JSOC "kill list," not even U. S. citizens. Director Richard Rowley and writer-producer Scahill's "DIRTY WARS" is a chilling battle cry for the soul and conscience of an America few of us know exists.
This award winning... film [is] thought-provoking and should be a first choice for anyone interested in the truth about America's current foreign policy and drone wars. The film allows the viewer to see how America's questionable policies and use of drones may be having exactly the reverse effect that CIA and military secretive war makers intended. It points out how these policies continue to enraged millions around the world and strengthen the hand of America's enemies. It uncovers what many would consider war crimes. Jeremy Shahill is a fearless, impartial national treasure and a dying breed of journalist who still seeks to get to the bottom of a story and reveal the truth no matter how culturally unpopular it may end up being. "DIRTY WARS" helps to shine a bright fact-filled light on U.S. war-making that many Americans would be surprised to know goes on in their name.