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The Disinherited Shall Re-inherit the “Aina”

March 28, 2012 By Ed Rampell 2 Comments

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Ed Rampell: Far from the Waikiki high rises and mega-resorts Bauknight shows us Hawaiians who are not only landless, but homeless, too, living in encampments on the beach before the Occupy movement was cool.

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5 Days in Denver: Rage Muted

March 26, 2012 By Dick Price 1 Comment

Dick Price: 5 Days in Denver thus is an eye-catching, behind-the-scenes look at how to build a street demonstration and a portrait of the deep-seated discomfort — at least some Americans feel — with the direction our country has been heading.

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“Hawaii: A Voice for Sovereignty” Screening in Pasadena

March 26, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

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Hawaii A Voice For Sovereignty, the seven-time award winning documentary film will host a free theatrical screening and press event at the Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, California March 31st, 2012 at 11:00 am.

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Free Men: This Was Paris Burning

March 23, 2012 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

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Ed Rampell: What makes Free Men especially noteworthy is not only its depiction of noble Arabs resisting those ignoble Nazi savages, but the relationship between the Muslims and the Jews in occupied France.

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: African Roots, Arab Ancestry, Axis Of Evil, Axis Powers, Black Marketeer, Bond Villain, Classic Casablanca, Colonial Empire, Days Of Glory, Free Men, French Actor, Larbi, Lubna Azabal, Michael Lonsdale, Nazi Occupation, Nazi Occupiers, North Africans, Political Consciousness, Rachid Bouchareb, world war ii

5 Days in Denver — World Premiere

March 23, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

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For 5 days in 2008, a group calling themselves Re-create 68 took to the streets of Denver, Colorado to dissent against the U.S. government at the Democratic National Convention. Defying court orders, riot police and bad press, their story is an immersive journey through the modern day American protest experience.

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Could HBO’s “Game Change” Change the Game of Politics?

March 20, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

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Robert Brent Toplin: If a presidential nominee tries to foist another superficially attractive but poorly prepared VP candidate upon a party in the future, public expression of outrage is likely to be loud.

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John Carter: The Confederate States of Mars

March 19, 2012 By admin 2 Comments

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Jonathan David Farley: All it would have taken was a little vigilance from an African-American organization to fire a shot across the bow of Disney and tell them, “Don’t make Carter a Confederate.”

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Arise Honors Earth’s Female Caretakers

March 13, 2012 By Georgianne Nienaber 4 Comments

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Georgianne Nienaber: Arise is both a documentary and an ethnographic study of women from around the world who share a profound intellectual and spiritual understanding of what it takes to live in harmony with the environment.

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Maid in America

March 1, 2012 By Rev. Irene Monroe Leave a Comment

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Rev. Irene Monroe: With international stars like Iman, Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, and Beyonce, to name a few, signaling that women of the African diaspora have come a long way, what’s up with Hollywood’s—and much of white America’s—fixation of us as their maids and welfare moms?

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Will The Help’s Oscar Revive Interest in The Long Walk Home?

February 27, 2012 By admin 1 Comment

Peter Dreier: I hope that the triumphs of The Help at this year’s Academy Awards will also draw attention to The Long Walk Home, about African-American maids enduring similar indignities, that is both more compelling and more realistic.

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