Join the Houston Institute for Culture for a  free double screening of the documentaries "The Power of Community? How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" and "Independent Intervention - breaking silence" 7 p.m. Saturday June 16, The Havens Center, 1827 W. Alabama. "Independent Intervention" will screen again 7 p.m. Sunday, June 17 at the Havens Center. www.houstonculture.org/film

Independent Intervention is an award-winning documentary about United States media coverage of the conflict in Iraq. Focusing on the human costs of war, it contrasts corporate-controlled media coverage of the
invasion of Iraq with independent media reports of the brutal realities on the ground.

Through discussions with media experts including Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Dahr Jamail, Danny Schechter, David Barsamian, Kalle Lasn, Norman Solomon, and James Zogby, the film investigates important
issues and systems that govern today's information flow, and shows how these systems of control reveal themselves during times of political turmoil and war.

Independent Intervention also includes commentary by Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Bill Moyers, Michael Moore, and Jeremy Scahill.