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Movie RecommendationPosted Monday, October 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM
This weekend, my husband and I finally had a chance to catch up on a bunch of movies that we had dvr'd. One of them was from the PBS show Independant Lens and was about the trial of the Chicago 10 in the late 1960s. At first I didn't like the way that it was filmed - half of it was archival footage and anything having to do with the courtroom was animated, but in the end I ended up really liking it a lot.
We couldn't believe some of the things that the judge in that trial got away with - like tying down and gagging Bobby Seale (then sentencing him to 4 years for comtempt of court), not letting the defense lawyers object...it was really weird. It was also strange seeing footage of the police and national guard gearing up for potential riots in the park - they was driving jeeps covered in barbed wire - insane! Also, hearing the things that Mayor Daley was saying about all of it was pretty crazy, too. There were a few other things that weren't directly related to the movie that my husband and I both noticed - we agreed that the army/government in general learned a lot from the Vietnam war - in terms of marketing and in terms of not showing the dead soldiers on the news every night (I would like to think that if we were seeing the amount of dead soldiers that we would be more appalled that we've been at war for so long). Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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All the power to the people...or something like that. Great program, and hopefully they were not the last people to take a stand in our society.
Did you watch it, too?
I looked up what happened to them afterwards, I sort of knew, but I didn't realize that so many of them had died young.
Yes, Well… I half watched it. I was working on the computer while it was on, but I wanted my children to watch it. I think the powers that be learned a lot in general from the unrest at the time. Things still happen, but have been virtually removed from the public consciousness, sort of like the coffins I imagine. The 2004 RNC had approximately 2000 arrests. This year at the RNC that number likely increased by a considerable percentage and it has been speculated that reporters covering the demonstrations were more aggressively arrested than the masses of protestors. Instead of fighting the people in front of cameras, it is easier today to marginalize them, and then portray them as insane and isolated ideologues. I fear that the media currently controls and manipulates public opinion to the extent that the majority of people will remain complacent and un-aware of the implications of many important issues that affect everyone in this world, or even worse, make them believe it is for their own good.
"Instead of fighting the people in front of cameras, it is easier today to marginalize them, and then portray them as insane and isolated ideologues. I fear that the media currently controls and manipulates public opinion to the extent that the majority of people will remain complacent and un-aware of the implications of many important issues that affect everyone in this world, or even worse, make them believe it is for their own good."
This is so true - and the worst part about it is that it seems completely obvious to many of us that 'they' are controling and manipulating public opinion but no one is really doing anything about it.
When we lived in Philly, there were a lot of anarachist groups that were visibly protesting the war (we lived there around the time that the US invaded Iraq), but no one really took them seriously which was kind of a shame because sometimes they said things that really made sense.
Instead of fighting the people in front of cameras, it is easier today to marginalize them, and then portray them as insane and isolated ideologues.
Posted by memyselfi on Mon, Oct 27, 2008, at 5:37 PM
Maybe that is because they are marginal ideologues, maybe even insane and isolated.
Devan -
I don't think that's entirely accurate, I think that sometimes people are afraid to say anything for fear of being portrayed as insane and/or isolated. I would think that there are more people than we realize that share non-mainstream ideas, but who are too scared to voice their opinions.
You have to have the courage of your convictions if you want to change anything. However, I am still an advocate of the MLK way over the insane alternatives that are being used by some groups. Today even people that seem to think they are being civil, like our blogger Carl, don't really have a grasp of the concept.
"Today even people that seem to think they are being civil, like our blogger Carl, don't really have a grasp of the concept."
This I do agree with!! :)
devan, I do agree with you. They may have been marginal insane and/or isolated. They also may not have been. That is sort of the point isn't it? We do not know what their voice was. We do know for certain that they were trying to be heard, and that for some reason, we did not have the opportunity to listen. That in itself tells me more than I need to know about the reality we live in.