Gordon Clay here. Have you ever signed a contract with your health insurance company that if something goes wrong you won't sue, and you'll keep the case and results secret and submit to mandatory arbitration where they pick the arbitrator. How about with your credit card, phone or cable providers, maybe even your employer? Very likely, you have at least a dozen contracts with mandatory arbitration clauses in them, you just don't know it.

Tomorrow night at 6pm, at the Chetco Public Library, TheCitizensWhoCare.org will present the First Friday Salon. The documentary to be shown is Hot Coffee

You may think you know the case of the woman who sued McDonald's over spilled coffee. Or do you? More than 15 years after making international news, the case continues to be cited as an example of citizens who use "frivolous" lawsuits to take unfair advantage of the American legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts in the case?

An eye-opening documentary with jaw-dropping revelations, Hot Coffee exposes how corporations spend millions on propaganda campaigns to distort our views of lawsuits - forever changing the civil justice system. By examining the impact of tort reform on the lives of ordinary citizens, the film shows how Americans give up their Constitutional rights in many ways without knowing it. Because of this, corporations literally hold the future of most American's in their hands and all without judicial review.

"First Friday Salon" is a free evening to see and talk about documentaries that, most likely, would never show in the area. The film starts promptly at 6pm with discussion to follow. Join us tomorrow night, won't you?