This documentary is a MUST WATCH!
The grim legacy of America’s treatment of its native peoples is explored in detail in this documentary. Filmmakers Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman take the perspective that if one is to define “genocide” as the a deliberate effort by a government to exterminate a people, then the United States is clearly guilty of the crime given their actions against America’s indigenous population over the past 300 years . . .
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1925),
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (1938),
Playwright, Critic, Political Activist, Socialist
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
It is amazing how unsettling tearing down the walls
of homophobic prejudice is to the religious bigots! [MSH]
. . . the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called “economic royalists,” not the people camping in Zuccotti Park . . . The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is . . . [all Street’s Masters of the Universe] . . . have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose.
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