IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY THIS MAN,
CALL CRIMESTOPPERS OR PASADENA
POLICE.
PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE
STREETS OUTSIDE CITY HALL TODAY.
THEY TOLD US THEY WERE
SHOWING IN WHAT THEY HOPED WAS A
PEACEFUL WAY THEIR DISPLEASURE
OVER A CONTROVERSIAL DOCUMENTARY
ABOUT AUTISM.
IT'S CALLED WAX, BEEN PULLED
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
LINE-UP.
KEITH GARVIN JOINS US NOW
WITH WHY PROTESTERS WERE AIMED
AT CITY HALL AGAINST THIS FILM.
Reporter: THE DEMONSTRATION
WAS AIMED AT CITY HALL BECAUSE
THEY SAY MAYOR TURNER WAS THE
REASON IT WAS PULLED AND THE
MAYOR'S OFFICE ADMITTED SO.
THE DEMONSTRATION WAS AIMED
THERE AS WE SAID, BECAUSE THE
MAYOR DID NOT WANT IT TO BE
SHOWN.
PROTESTERS TURNED OUT IN SUPPORT
OF THE DOCUMENTARY, BUT A FILM
IT IS ABOUT PURPORTED LINKS
BETWEEN A PARTICULAR VACCINE AND
INCREASE IN CASES OF
AUTISM.
THE FILM WAS SET TO SHOW AT THE
ANNUAL WORLD FEST HOUSTON
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, BUT
PULLED FOR AN UNRELATED ISSUE.
BUT EVEN AFTER THE FESTIVAL'S
ORGANIZERS DECIDED TO NOT SHOW
IT, THEY SAY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
AND VOICES FROM THE STATE AND
FEDERAL LEVELS ALL PUT PRESSURE
ON THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY DIDN'T
CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
THEY SAY THEY WERE EVEN
THREATEND WITH A LOSS OF
$100,000 IN MUCH NEEDED FUNDING.
PROTESTERS SAY IT WAS A BAD
DECISION BY MAYOR TURNER.
WHATEVER YOUR SIDE OF THE
STORY IS, THIS IS ABOUT
CENSORSHIP AND EVERY HOUSTONIAN
HAS THE RIGHT TO SEE THAT MOVIE.
IT'S NOT UP TO THE MAYOR TO MAKE
THAT DECISION.
SPOKESMAN FOR THE MAYOR SAID
MAYOR TURNER ASKED THAT IT BE
REMOVED FROM THE FILM FESTIVAL
LINE-UP BECAUSE HE FELT THE FILM
WAS COUNTER TO THE CITY'S
EFFORTS TO INSURE CHILDREN
RECEIVE VACCINATIONS.
THE FILM IS SET TO BE RELEASED
IN THAT'S RIGHTS IN THE COMING
