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Progressive cinema: From dramas to race and culture, more unique films seen at Toronto
December 31, 2007In the amazing wealth of great cinema premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, there are shining examples of humanism and progressive content. There are some touching and powerful stories among the dramatic feature films. At...
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Movie Review: Inside the heart and mind of lies
December 31, 2007Movie Review Redacted Directed by Brian De Palma Magnolia Pictures, 2007 Rated R, 90 minutes It doesn’t take very long in Brian DePalma’s film, “Redacted” for us to get fairly deep inside the collective heads of...
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International solidarity helps Bakery Workers win at Dannon
December 31, 2007MINSTER, Ohio (PAI)—International union solidarity—enlisting 56,000 unionized Dannon yogurt’s workers in Europe—was the last missing piece that produced a Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers win in Dannon’s biggest U.S. plant, in the rural, GOP-dominated...
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Too many police shootings: more than a few bad apples
December 31, 2007The problem of fatal police shootings in America goes beyond a few bad apples. It points to persistent and systemic problems that lead to ongoing tragedies for communities of color.
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The murder of Benazir Bhutto and Charlie Wilsons War
December 29, 2007Benazir Bhutto was murdered in Pakistan yesterday and the murder, as I see it, has a direct relationship to the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the subject of “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
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