Posts Tagged ‘Murder by Proxy’
Murder by Proxy doc film premiered July 8
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The previously announced documentary Murder by Proxy premiered July 8 in Royal Oak, Michigan at the Main Arts Theatre (Landmark Theatres). The film explores the role that a toxic work environment can play in the build-up to workplace homicides while mainly focusing on the US Postal Service. The star is 39 yr. veteran letter carrier Charlie Withers. Experts include criminologist Alan Fox, social psychologist Gary Namie and psychiatrist Michael Welner.
The film will be screened at the Montreal World Film Festival Aug. 26 to Sept. 6, 2010
Interviews with Director Emil Chiaberi and Charlie Withers at the Royal Oak premiere.
If you were at Royal Oak, write your own review here, please.
Read the local Daily Tribune press coverage.
Tags: going postal, Murder by Proxy, USPS
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Murdering professors. Surprised?
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Think the professoriate in universities is all about collaboration and cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge? Think again. The shooting deaths of three professors (all tenured, including the department chair) during a routine biology faculty meeting on Friday Feb. 12, allegedly by the arrested assistant professor (not tenured) Amy Bishop Anderson, is unusual in many ways. The perpetrator is a woman. She used a gun. She had a plan and tried to escape. It is unclear whether or not learning about the denial of her tenure triggered the plan. Sometimes precedents are uncovered much later (see the documentary Murder By Proxy). Time will tell as facts are revealed.
Tags: Amy Bishop Anderson, biology, Ken Westhues, Murder by Proxy, UAH
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New Documentary Announcement
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Please check out this film! The Drs. Namie and the WBI Legislative Campaign are featured. It’s a documentary that begins with post office homicide and then introduces bullying as a potential toxic feature of the work environment that can set the stage for violence.
“Delivers a potent mix of shocking truth, honest analysis and dark humor”
COMING TO THEATERS IN 2010
Feature documentary Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal offers a provocative examination of the possible role of hostile work environments in mass murder incidents, starting with the earliest USPS mass murder-suicide in 1986.
At a time when tensions are rising again in the Postal Service and in other workplaces across America, Murder By Proxy is a simply a must-see film.
Spread the word, forward the link to this announcement to your friends
Tags: bullying, going postal, massacre, Murder by Proxy, USPS, violence
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