JANUARY 6, 1997 – Review – Mars Attacks, director Tim Burton This film is supposed to be a comedy. Maybe. I’m convinced it’s really a documentary in disguise. Let me make the case. The night I watched it, there were very few moments of laughter. Except when the Martians fried Congress. The audience loved that. And anyone who knows the politics of the current, Newt Gingrich congress in the U.S., couldn’t help but love it too. (There is a strong case to be made, in fact, that Newt hails from the Red Planet. But that’s another story). Mars Attacks seems at…
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Attica lives!
Published January 14, 2000 by Paul Kellogg
JANUARY 14, 2000 – The film Hurricane has highlighted, again, the racism and injustice that permeates the US prison system. January 4, that history of racism came to the surface again, when New York state agreed to pay $8-million to 1,280 inmates caught in the middle of the Attica prison uprising in 1971.[1] The uprising was an explosion of rage against racism and brutality. It was inspired by the civil rights and black power movements which were turning American society upside down. New York state police crushed the uprising with the utmost brutality. On September 13, 1971, they invaded the…