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jwirr

(39,215 posts)
5. Thank you. Hopefully this will help those who were not alive then more fully understand what we are
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 09:58 PM
Dec 2014

fighting for both then and now.

Rhiannon12866

(203,041 posts)
7. I completely agree with you.
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 10:14 PM
Dec 2014

I was a kid during that time, but I didn't realize how little I really knew until I watched the excellent "Eyes on the Prize," and this looks like it's an attempt to tell the real story. And it's a chance to bring Dr. King's story to a whole new generation. I hope it's a huge success...

Rhiannon12866

(203,041 posts)
3. That's the one that I most want to see, too!
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 09:27 PM
Dec 2014

I agree that it's important and it's gotten wonderful reviews!

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
6. Great trailer to what looks to be a great movie...
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 10:00 PM
Dec 2014

...but the "review" that follows is freaking painful.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
8. "The non-violent protest is no longer effective" . < Just because no one has
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 10:37 PM
Dec 2014

created one of the necessary size doesn't mean it isn't effective. It may just mean the organizers are incompetent, which is what she said in the video following the trailer above. And so far there is no evidence that would contradict that.

King knew very well that non-violent protest is just a tool, one of many. There is a whole lot of work that has to take place in disorganizing your opposition before you act. Organizers today seem to think one can build a protest and "they" will come. Instead, what needs to happen is years of organizing and study behind the scenes, where the specific tactics that will win are decided on. Build it and they will come only works in one movie, and even then the players who appeared were already trained.

"I saved a thousand slaves. I could have saved a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves".
Harriet Tubman

Our opponents have had the advantage of a couple hundred years head start and paid-off politicians. Until a body of people is trained, has it in their consciousness that they are serfs, and are able to articulate exactly what the problem is, a march will just be a nice walk in the afternoon air.

The people aren't ready yet. That is where the work is.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
10. I take issue with the reviewer's remark that Occupy Wall Street needed a leader.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:35 PM
Dec 2014

Please note that Martin Luther King was assassinated. Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, hardly radicals, were also assassinated.

To accept responsibility for leading a movement like OWS is to put your life on the line.

Martin Luther King would be impossible today because of the excessive surveillance, the ability to target "leaders" and the corruption of our press. It's just impossible for a movement to have a strong leader who won't be targeted by the right wing.

OWS was wise not to focus on a personality. The fact that the movie reviewer so readily remembers OWS shows that the movement was actually quite effective. We all know what it was about. We also all know that the resistance to OWS on the parts of the media and governments is based on economic and political concerns and that the struggle for economic justice and lawful control of Wall Street, fair taxation, etc. is going to be long and not very dramatic. I defend OWS's organization. I think it was brilliant. After all, people do not want to live in tents in the middle of a city for too long. OWS has spawned an awareness that is alive today.

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