Roger Smith, General Motors Corp.'s chairman during a decade when its U.S. market-share losses to Japanese rivals accelerated, poses in an undated company photo released to the media on Nov. 30, 2007. Smith died yesterday in Detroit after a brief illness. He was 82. Source: General Motors via Bloomberg News
Michael, the man can't even rest in peace ! That is astounding. Every obts out there has a reference to Michael's film. Carved in stone, now, Mike. Forever !
The turbulent times that Roger Smith presided over at GM were the subject of a controversial 1989 Michael Moore documentary centred on the impact of the closure of GM facilities in Flint, Michigan
Roger Smith
July 12, 1925 - November 29, 2007
The family asks that donations be made to the Roger B. Smith Memorial Fund to Benefit the Fight Against Cancer: William Beaumont Hospital, c/o of the Beaumont Fund, P.O. Box 5802, Troy, MI 48007-9620
Roger Smith, GM Chief From 1981 to 1990, Dies at 82 (Update3)
By Jeff Green and Alex Ortolani
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Roger Smith, General Motors Corp.'s chairman during a decade when its U.S. market-share losses to Japanese rivals accelerated, died yesterday in Detroit after a brief illness. He was 82.
Smith was widely known as the foil of filmmaker Michael Moore's 1989 documentary ``Roger & Me'' on the decline of the U.S. auto industry. Smith served as GM chairman and chief executive officer from Jan. 1, 1981, until July 31, 1990, the Detroit-based company said in a statement today.
``He was a leader who knew that we have to accept change, understand change and learn to make it work for us,'' Rick Wagoner, the automaker's current CEO, said in the statement. ``Roger was truly a pioneer in the fast-moving global industry that we now take for granted.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atDkHC6CKlR4&refer=us
Ex-GM Chief Roger Smith Dies At 82
Smith Retired As General Motors CEO In 1990
Roger B. Smith, who led General Motors in the 1980s through a period of significant change, died Thursday after a brief illness at the age of 82.
Smith also unwillingly loaned his name to Michigan filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary "Roger & Me," which chronicled Moore's attempts to interview the GM CEO.
Smith was appointed chairman and CEO on January 1, 1981, and led the worlds largest automaker until his retirement on July 31, 1990.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/automotive/14737752/detail.html
Ex-GM Chief Roger Smith Dies At 82
POSTED: 11:09 am EST November 30, 2007
UPDATED: 1:59 pm EST November 30, 2007
Roger B. Smith, who led General Motors in the 1980s through a period of significant change, died Thursday after a brief illness at the age of 82.
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Smith also unwillingly loaned his name to Michigan filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary "Roger & Me," which chronicled Moore's attempts to interview the GM CEO.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/money/14736624/detail.html?rss=det&psp=money
Former GM CEO Roger Smith dies at 82
Posted Nov 30th 2007 11:08AM by John Neff
Roger Smith, former chairman and CEO of General Motors from 1981 to 1990, has died at the age of 82. I was still drawing cars with crayons when Smith lead the General, so I first became aware of him after watching the film Roger and Me by Michael Moore. While that documentary does not paint a rosy picture of Smith, he was at the helm of GM during a time when NUMMI, GM's joint-venture manufacturing facility with Toyota, was formed, and the creation of the Saturn brand. Regardless of how you view Smith's tenure at the top of GM, he is still a significant figure in the history of the world's largest automaker.
GM has detailed the life and accomplishments of Roger Smith in its press release posted after the jump.
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/30/former-gm-ceo-roger-smith-dies-at-82/
Former General Motors CEO Roger B. Smith Dead at 82
Written By: Seyth Miersma
Filed Under: Automotive News
November 30th, 2007 12:25 PM
Former chairman and chief executive office of General Motors, Roger B. Smith, died Thursday after a short illness at the age of 82.
A veteran of the U.S. Navy, and graduate of the University of Michigan Business School, Smith started at GM in the capacity of general accounting clerk in 1949. He worked his way up through GM’s financial management team, becoming vice president of finance in 1971.
Smith went on to lead the company as CEO during the tumultuous years of 1981 through 1990, achieving during his tenure; the creation of the Saturn brand, the introduction of front-wheel-drive mid-size cars, and the acquisition of tech company Electronic Data Systems. It was during his time as CEO that Smith was famously the target of Michael Moore’s documentary Roger & Me, which detailed the closing of GM facilities in and around Flint, MI.
In a statement released by GM, Chairman Rick Wagoner said of Smith, “He was a leader who knew that we have to accept change, understand change, and learn to make it work for us.”
http://news.windingroad.com/automotive-news/former-general-motors-ceo-roger-b-smith-dead-at-82/
Michael Moore Today
November 28th, 2007 12:00 am
Sean Penn film takes top honor at NY indie awards
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sean Penn's film "Into the Wild," which tells the true story of a 24-year-old adventurer's ill-fated trek to Alaska, won for best feature on Tuesday at the Gotham Awards, one of the highly coveted U.S. independent film awards.
Among other films that took out prizes at the top U.S East Coast awards focusing on low-budget and art-house films was Michael Moore's "Sicko" for best documentary. "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead," starring Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and "Talk to Me," starring Don Cheadle, tied for best ensemble cast.
The Gotham Awards are held annually by the Independent Feature Project, an nonprofit organization founded in 1979 that supports independent filmmaking. The awards give film fans an indication of the top independent movies of the year heading into Hollywood's film award season.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=10533
Vote 'SiCKO' in this year's People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards
http://www.pcavote.com/pca/showvoting.jsp;jsessionid=O1LN1SMWE1TYACQM4SFCFFA?showCaptcha=true&category=movies&_requestid=4421284
November 29th, 2007 1:44 pm
Albany nurse to host ‘SiCKO’ screening
Moultrie Observer
ALBANY, GA — Susie Smith, an Albany nurse, will host a house party to screen “SiCKO,” the film Michael Moore directed about the U.S. health care system.
Smith, a member of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association, will hold the event at her home at 2101 Princeton Drive in Albany at 6:30 p.m. today.
U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Albany, was invited to join the screening and discussion to follow, according to a press release from The National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association.
The association is sponsoring similar house parties in 150 cities across the nation as part of a campaign to push the National U.S. Health Insurance Act (House Resolution 676), which would guarantee universal publicly financed, privately provided health care.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10536
November 29th, 2007 1:46 pm
'SiCKO' PARTY
Modesto Bee
MANTECA, CA -- Registered nurse Erin Loberg and other local nurses will host a house party and screening-discussion of the Michael Moore documentary "Sicko" today at 7 p.m. at 1068 Snowgoose Lane as part of a national effort to organize for health care reform. Local members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association will attend the event, which will be followed by a discussion of health care reform.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10537
SiCKO DVD Nationwide Home Movie Night
Come celebrate the DVD release of the movie SiCKO at the home of an RN colleague in your area. Nurses are getting together to watch the movie, eat popcorn and discuss what RNs can do to solve the nation's health care crisis.
http://www.calnurses.org/sicko/dvd_house_parties.html
Nurses Host Nationwide "SiCKO" DVD House Parties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcP08ekMqY
Thanksgiving weekend is the most heavily traveled time of the year. This year Southern California celebrated with a patriotic theme: Free Speech.
http://www.freewayblogger.com/thanksgiving07.htm
Artist on Artist: Tom Morello & Michael Moore
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8272191
Hotel Café Shows!
The Nightwatchman will be performing at Hotel Café in Hollywood, CA
Nov 29th, Dec 6th and Dec 13th!
www.hotelcafe.com
One Man Revolution - Tracklisting
THE NIGHTWATCHMAN - ONE MAN REVOLUTION
1. California's Dark
2. One Man Revolution
3. Let Freedom Ring
4. The Road I Must Travel
5. The Garden of Gethsemane
6. House Gone Up In Flames
7. Flesh Shapes The Day
8. Battle Hymns
9. Maximum Firepower
10. Union Song
11. No One Left
12. The Dark Clouds Above
13. Until The End
All songs Written and Performed by Tom Morello
Publisher credit: The Nightwatchman Music (BMI)
Produced by Brendan O'Brien
Recorded by Nick Didia
Recorded at Buds Garage, Atlanta, GA, Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, GA
Assisted by Tom Tapley
And at Henson Recording Studio, LA, CA - Assistant Tom Syrowski
http://www.nightwatchmanmusic.com/
Protesters Arrested at UF Alberto Gonzales Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNY67Ztw7hY&eurl=http://www.michaelmoore.com/
November 21st, 2007 7:24 pm
Group urges Cramer to sponsor health bill
Demonstrators push for national insurance act
By Steve Doyle / Huntsville Times
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Sign-waving demonstrators who want Congress to pass a universal health insurance bill rallied Tuesday outside U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer's Huntsville office.
Reese Danley-Kilgo, one of the organizers, said the group is asking Cramer, a Democrat, to co-sponsor the "United States National Health Insurance Act." It would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system to cover necessary medical care for every American, without co-payments or deductibles.
"It would leave out insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations and just be an arrangement between the people who need health care and all the rest of us in the country," said Danley-Kilgo, a retired University of Alabama in Huntsville professor.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10525
November 21st, 2007 1:26 am
Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit
By Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
"There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10523
November 16th, 2007 2:35 am
Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar
By Stephanie Strom / New York Times
In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.
At issue is a crudely lettered sign, scribbled on the back of a menu, that was held up at an awards dinner and read, “We did not vote for Bush.”
By e-mail, angry bridge players have accused the women of “treason” and “sedition.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10522
FOX ATTACKS IRAN
Sign the Open Letter
Tell the networks not to follow FOX down the road to war
58,199 signers
Dear ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN,
"My station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at FOX News."
That is CNN's Christiane Amanpour explaining why the major television networks failed to accurately inform the public in the lead-up to the Iraq war, choosing instead to follow FOX's lead.
Now, FOX is beating the drums for war with Iran. Robert Greenwald's short film, "FOX Attacks: Iran", outlines the evidence from the station's own broadcasts, comparing their reporting before the Iraq war with what they are saying now about Iran.
http://foxattacks.com/iran
SiCKO-Cure National Road Show
http://www.healthcare-now.org/healthcare_road_show.html
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "Sicko." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.
It's all an amazing sight. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see the impact a movie can have. For all of you who have written me to ask, "What can I do," well, read more about what others have done, and then try these simple steps:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=219
November 30th, 2007 12:41 pm
Sicko Cure Road Show Puts Health Care in the Spotlight
By Roman Lillie / WCTV
The Sicko Cure Road show was in Tallahassee on Wednesday, telling people about what they say are the benefits of guaranteed health care.
The Road Show is traveling across the country to try and pass a bill that would provide free health care for every American. With more than forty-six million Americans without health insurance many people are hoping for a change.
And some who have insurance worry that premiums are getting higher.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10538
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