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It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Occupy the Cinema: The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair
Greg Mitchell’s new, short documentary addresses the California campaign for governor in 1934, when the boundaries between politics and media first became blurred.
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Occupy the Cinema: Till and the Enduring Demand for Justice
There’s sadness and trauma throughout the film, but also a light – literally and figuratively felt – that shines on Mamie Till, her son Emmett, and on the team of black activists that join the fight for justice.
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Flooding Onto the Screen: Films Reflect Dire Climate Moment For the Gulf South
It’s likely we’ll see more of these kind of movies, just as likely we’ll see more of these storms.
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Occupy the Cinema: Economic Hardship in "The Florida Project" and "Good Time"
The films, among the best of 2017, reveal a country under the thumb and the gun of a certain few who will never be satisfied with what they have.
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Occupy the Cinema: Confederate Statues Get the Documentary Treatment In New Orleans
Word of mouth has been making the rounds to turn what was the city's Lee Circle – named after the Confederate hero Robert E. Lee – into a place commemorating the man who belted “My Blue Heaven”
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Occupy the Cinema: "Blood in the Face" and Our Neo-Nazi Moment
This is a horror film for our time unlike any other – a documentary about the snowball effect that hate and misinformation produce from generation to generation, poisoning potentially good people with ugly evil.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Get Me Roger Stone" Unveils the Man Who Made Trump
The new Netflix documentary isn’t just a biopic on the political strategist and self proclaimed “agent provocateur” Roger Stone – it's a blueprint of sinister, cutthroat realpolitik and its execution throughout the dirtiest presidential campaign in recent memory.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Nobody Speak" Tackles Free Press and Journalism in the Age of Trump
At its core, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" raises the question of where the line is between public and private, whether crossing it is “bad,” and whether the news men and women who do so ought to be held legally accountable.
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Occupy the Cinema: A Super Pig and Mankind's Future In Dystopian "Okja"
Okja is the story of corporate dream factories run amok. It is a tome on the real beating heart of capitalism and the implications of letting that system operate with little to no impunity.
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Occupy the Cinema: In "Rat Film," Humans and Rodents Claw for American Survival
Through all the invisible walls that it demonstrates are surrounding us, "Rat Film" seems to conclude that people will continue living and making due. People, in general, won’t be brought down. We’ll find a way.
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Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
Posted 1 week 2 days ago
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
