Archive for May, 2015
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from a High School Student:
“It answers questions but calls on people to ask more questions!” These are the words of a high school student who saw the rough cut of BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! The only questions she was asked were, “What stood out to you?” and “Why should people be in the theater on March 16 / 17 for the premiere?” *** Before I saw the film I had learned about the lynchings during Jim Crow and before that, and I used to think, these people were fucked up. They took slaves, they killed Black people, they were fucked up. It was always […]
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from a teacher in Atlanta:
“If you are someone who once imagined a better world or if you’re someone who has checked out revolution and communism in the past, but have found yourself believing the mantra ‘It looks great on paper, but it [is] horrible in practice. Communism just doesn’t work,’ you’ve got to see this film.” If you’re anything like me, the idea of watching a six hour film seems nearly impossible. I rarely get six hours of sleep a night, six hours with a friend or family member, six hours to do whatever…pretty much the only thing that allows me to spend 6, […]
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from Barney Bush, Writer/Teacher/Native community chairman/Father/ Grandfather and Activist in the honor of our homelands and the next seven plus generations:
I am aware that we are at the crossroads where we are unable to recover any of the thousands of species destroyed by industrialization within just the last five years… Read more… (about two hundred a day, so I hear). Having said that, we are already outside the realm of quick fixes for recovering the earth, air and water. Mining/fracking/drilling/crushing corporations realize that they have been given free rein from the legal system to do as they wish…maybe not exactly free; it’s in exchange for the mining and drug company moneys that elected them to office, and none pretends to […]
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