A list of links to free updates on how things stand -- some movies, movie trailers and books (your library has the books or can get them for you to read):
Votergate 2004
Watch this film free on the web: Votergate, the movie
Also: check out this book, Fooled Again, by Mark Crispin Miller, (NY: Basic Books, 2005) talks about ALL the ways that an election can be (and was) stolen in 2004.
Q. Why should you care?
A. Because, while 'your side' may have come out on top this time, what happens next time when they do something that's outrageous to you, and you want to vote them out?
Global Warming:
See the trailer for An Inconvenient Truth -- Documentary of Al Gore's campaign to wake up the American people to the extent of global warming and its dangers, and change what we're doing to cause it before it's too late.
Alternative energy for cars:
Watch the trailer for Who Killed The Electric Car?
Politics and protest:
Watch the trailer for the movie The U.S. vs. John Lennon -- How the U.S. tried to deport John Lennon
Also: check out this book on the subject, Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon FBI files by Jon Wiener. Read the Intro here.
Where are we, and how did we get here?
Watch the trailer of the movie made by one filmmaker who tried to find out the basis for income tax. America: Freedom to Fascism.
The need for and power of an independent press:
Watch the trailer for Good Night and Good Luck.
Fables for Our Time:
Watch the trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand (X3).
[People widely recognize the underlying theme of prejudice against gays. But also consider this: imagine that the government is going to try to apply a 'cure' to the unruly freedom of its citizens to live their own lives in privacy without being "tracked": an implanted ID chip and/or an ID card with fingeprint or retinal information.]
What's it like in the war?
Watch the trailer for The War Tapes.
And what's this about Guantanamo?
Watch the trailer for Road to Guantanamo.
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