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Tue Jun-26-07 11:31 PM
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A few months ago, I received a call from a friend in my activist network named Julie who informed me that Michael Moore was in town filming footage for his upcoming documentary Sicko.
She said that Moore was looking for extras who were not insured and were not afraid to travel to Cuba at a moment’s notice. Progressives who would not let an annoying little policy like the Cuban embargo distract them from the true mission at stake.
“You’re the first person I thought of, but I was hesitant to call you because you’re a journalist,” she said. “You have to promise me you won’t tell anybody about this. It has to remain a secret.”
I chose to forsake a solid journalistic scoop for a chance to be in the movie, not to mention a chance to return to Cuba, which I had visited a year earlier with another group of activists (that’s another story). At the time, I believed it was my patriotic duty to do all I could do to expose the American healthcare system for what it was -- a corrupt, profiteering enterprise that would sell its own mother for an extra dollar. http://www.category305.com/big-screen/sickies-for-sicko-2.php
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