Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie

Via USA Today:

An Oregon minister’s efforts to urge a movie theater chain to cease playing a promotional video for the U.S. Department of War before film showings is drawing attention.

The Rev. Chuck Currie, a minister in the United Church of Christ in Portland, complained in a letter to Regal Theaters that he and his family had gone to see Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” Sunday evening when the 90-second ad touting the U.S. Department of War played before the pre-film trailers.

“The audience was stunned,” he told USA TODAY, calling the video “a propaganda piece promoting Trump and the MAGA agenda.”

Full story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/17/minister-theater-chain-war-department-video/90598050007/

Release Octavio Daniel Cabrera Valdez!

‘Democracies do not do this’: Portland minister calls on local movie theater to remove Department of War ad

Via KOIN 6 CBS NEWS: In a letter sent to Regal Cinemas and posted on social media, Rev. Currie said while it is normal to see videos promoting careers in the military, this was something else.

“This was an advertisement promoting the political views of Donald Trump,” he said. “It was not promoting our military.”

Full story: https://www.koin.com/news/portland/democracies-do-not-do-this-portland-minister-calls-on-local-movie-theater-to-remove-department-of-war-ad/

Josh Hokit’s slur against Michelle Obama was reprehensible and was rooted in racism, misogyny, and homophobia. The same hatreds that drive Donald Trump. Trump smirked at Hokit’s slur and, today, The White House has refused to condemn Hokit. As for Michelle Obama, she is a great American and was a great First Lady for ALL Americans, red and blue. History will remember her name and contributions, just as history will catalog Trump’s failed stewardship of the presidency.

Art: “The Obamas: Springing Forth,” by artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

If you cut food assistance for children, dehumanize immigrants as ‘vermin,’ put the financial interests of polluters over Creation, increase military spending while slashing education, or raise taxes on people experiencing poverty welcome while providing tax cuts - for the super-rich, you have forsaken the teachings of jesus, who told us that whatever we do to the least of these, we do to him.

At Regal in Portland to watch Disclosure Day and were just treated to a Donald Trump / Pete Hegseth propaganda video promoting the website http://war.gov.

The crowd here at Lloyd Center loudly booed.

I love Portland. 🌹

But why on Earth did we just have to watch a tax payer paid for propaganda video?