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For Immediate Release:

Don't Buy It . . . Pie It!


As we approach the holiday season, shrug off that hypnotic compulsion to
Buy!, Buy! Buy! and enjoy an evening of videos that highlight and mock the
emptiness of our consumerist holidays.You don't need a credit card to come
to this show...

Screenings:

Featured Video:
The Pie's The Limit (Produced by Whispered Media):
WORLD PREMIERE! Fresh footage from the Biotic Baking Brigade's recent "in
your face" pieings in San Francisco.Come see San Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown and other demagogues served up their just deserts.Starring: Willie
Brown; Monsanto Corporation's CEO Robert Shapiro (makers of Agent Orange,
RoundUp, NutraSweet and other lovely toxics); playboy millionaire and SF
Supervisor Gavin Newsom; and Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman
(architect of Reaganomics and Pinochet's Fascist Chilean Economic Policies).

Also showing that same night:

- Un-Commercials from Adbusters: provocative retail-reveling!
- Santarchy in the USA by Scott Beale: see naughty Santas blow off a little
steam in America's Musac-filled fun-malls
- Barbie Liberation Organization: Repressed GI Joes and anorexic fashion
dolls unwind in the BLO's liberating video about gender de-programming.

TIME/DATE:                Screening at 8:30 pm / Thursday, December 3, 1998

PLACE:                        Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st Street, San Francisco

ADMISSION:              $ 5.00 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.

CONTACT:                  A. Mark Liiv / Video Activist Network (415) 789-8484 or visit the Artists' Television Access calendar

Order The Pie's the Limit here.

The Video Activist Network (V.A.N.) is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. Recent local political demonstrations and works by V.A.N. members highlight each screening. All screenings start at 8:30 pm at the Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia @ 21st Street in San Francisco. Open to the general public. - END -

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