Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz, a veteran of the civil rights and anti-war movements, has been Land Use Planning Consultant to the government of China for many years. He taught Chinese and American History at the college level, worked with Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Org. with miners, and was an officer of SEIU.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz

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‘Epicentro’: Getting centered on Cuba in a new documentary film
August 31, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
Epicentro is Sundance Award winner and Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper’s vibrant, elegiac postcard from Cuba—its past, present and future.
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‘Building the American Dream’: A Texas wage-theft and heat-stroke nightmare
August 28, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his state’s recent building boom “The Texas Miracle.” But the workers who have actually done the building often find themselves engaged in a nightmare!
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‘Little Fires Everywhere’: Slow burn uncovers layers of the family archaeology
August 18, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
But it is hard to argue with a product that through its brilliant acting and writing confronts values and choices of all of its protagonists in such a painful, unblinking sweep.
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New documentary film on Congresswoman Barbara Lee: She speaks for me!
July 13, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California’s 13th District, representing Oakland and Berkeley, voted against Joint Resolution 23, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, 2001.
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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’: A fine new documentary about a courageous life
July 6, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right.
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‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
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‘Last Dance’: Face the music with Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls
May 11, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
As we sit in quarantine and practice physical distancing, with too little money and too much time on our hands, a masked nation turns its lonely eyes to . . . Michael Jordan.
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‘George W. Bush’: Stunning documentary on worst American president (until now)
May 5, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz
Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron’s new PBS documentary George W. Bush is an excellent treatment of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush.
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