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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.
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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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Occupy the Cinema: "Alien: Covenant" Reveals Humanity At A Profound Loss
These humans have developed great vehicles for travel and assistive robotic technology for help, but as "Covenant" demonstrates, the search for more has not lead to answers within.
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Occupy the Cinema: Is Wonder Woman the Hero of Our Time?
Far be it for me to suggest that Wonder Woman is a tool in the recent movement of feminine empowerment being experienced in our culture – including the massive Women’s March. But if this is the case, why is that bad? Isn’t it about time?
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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.
