Submitted by noah on
- Log in to post comments
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Bill Arceneaux
Follow:
Bill Arceneaux
-
"Push the Establishment": Two Black Directors On Filmmaking In Trump's America
After a most tumultuous Oscars ending where the wrong winner was announced, the great "Moonlight" last month took home the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2016.
-
Occupy the Cinema: Hey Oscars, It's Time To Recognize the Story of America
For 2016, a most politically tumultuous and depressing year, documentaries on race relations – "O.J.: Made in America," "The 13th" and "I Am Not Your Negro" – ruled the landscape. Now, how will Hollywood vote?
-
Occupy the Cinema: "Rogue One" and the Rebellion Against Empire
"Rogue One," released at the dawn of Donald Trump’s reign, is not just a tome against aggressive and ignorant power, but a reminder that anyone and everyone can become susceptible to those elements – from a Texas buffoon to a kid named Barry.
-
Occupy the Cinema: "Deepwater Horizon" and the Ruinous Results of Greed
Are you successful enough? Never. It is an epidemic and a vast majority are sick. Not even a massive fire on a ship in the ocean can offer a cure. What, then, will?
-
Occupy the Cinema: With The Birth of A Nation, Nat Turner Lives!
Nate Parker's new film isn’t just a trip through history, but a reminder of now – if "12 Years A Slave" was a humanist drama and "Selma" was stoic strength, "Birth of a Nation" is a garbage can flying through a pizzeria window.
-
Occupy the Cinema: "Snowden"
At the heart of Oliver Stone's new film is the evolution of inner turmoil and disillusion with the U.S. government that Edward Snowden felt in his work.
-
Occupy the Cinema: "Free State of Jones" and "The Purge: Election Year"
These new films ask: Are we primed to drown in the culture of fear created for us? Doomed to waste one another in most excessive ways, while the wealth remains undisbursed?
-
Gun Restrictions Now! Why "91%" Is a Film For Our Time
Powerful almost by default, and handled with a clear mission at hand and an eye for empathy, "91%" is a call to activist arms.
-
Weiner on Weiner: "This Is the Worst – Doing a Documentary On My Scandal"
This "Weiner" is a comedy of errors and a tragedy of modern proportions – sure, it’s head shakingly humorous and even eye rollingly awkward to see how far a man can dig his own grave, but it’s a sad state of affairs to do so, isn’t it?
Pages
Sign Up
Article Tabs
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
