FORMULAIC PEARL HARBOR ADMITS TO RACISM, BOMBS A JAPANESE AMERICAN, AND PERPETUATES A MYTH Pearl Harbor has the distinction of having more advance publicity than any film in recent memory, but of course the $140 million project commemorates events exactly sixty years ago and doubtless will be re-released on December 7. Although the trailer may […]
FORMULAIC PEARL HARBOR ADMITS TO RACISM, BOMBS A JAPANESE AMERICAN, AND PERPETUATES A MYTH Pearl Harbor has the distinction of having more advance publicity than any film in recent memory, but of course the $140 million project commemorates events exactly sixty years ago and doubtless will be re-released on December 7. Although the trailer may
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JANITORS FIGHT FOR WAGES AND RESPECT IN AFFLUENT LOS ANGELES Forty million persons have no medical insurance in the richest country in the world, the United States. Among the uninsured are recent immigrants, who often work at wages below the minimum allowed by law while immigration quotas are not relaxed to allow badly needed unskilled
JANITORS FIGHT FOR WAGES AND RESPECT IN AFFLUENT LOS ANGELES Forty million persons have no medical insurance in the richest country in the world, the United States. Among the uninsured are recent immigrants, who often work at wages below the minimum allowed by law while immigration quotas are not relaxed to allow badly needed unskilled
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TURKEY’S REPRESSION OF THE KURDS LAUNCHES A JOURNEY THROUGH HELL The title of the film Journey to the Sun (Günese Yoculuk) describes a trek by a young Turkish man, Mehmet (played by Newroz Baz), with the body of his Kurdish friend Berzan (played by Nazmi Quirix) from the European side of Istanbul to Zorduc, a
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TURKEY’S REPRESSION OF THE KURDS LAUNCHES A JOURNEY THROUGH HELL The title of the film Journey to the Sun (Günese Yoculuk) describes a trek by a young Turkish man, Mehmet (played by Newroz Baz), with the body of his Kurdish friend Berzan (played by Nazmi Quirix) from the European side of Istanbul to Zorduc, a
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BLOW STICKS ITS NOSE INTO THE LIFE OF AN EARLY SUPPLIER FOR THE RECREATIONAL LIBERATION The sexual liberation, which began in California during the 1960s, was accompanied by the recreational liberation. A weed from México brought temporary Nirvana to consumers and vast wealth to kingpins. In the 1970s, however, a powder from Colombia gradually replaced
BLOW STICKS ITS NOSE INTO THE LIFE OF AN EARLY SUPPLIER FOR THE RECREATIONAL LIBERATION The sexual liberation, which began in California during the 1960s, was accompanied by the recreational liberation. A weed from México brought temporary Nirvana to consumers and vast wealth to kingpins. In the 1970s, however, a powder from Colombia gradually replaced
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JOHN BOORMAN ISSUES A WARNING ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION On December 31, 1999, the government of Panamá took control of the Panamá Canal after eight-five years of American sovereignty over the Canal Zone. A clause in the reversion agreement, negotiated to appease conservative Senators who were otherwise reluctant to ratify the treaty, provides that the
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POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY CELEBRATES A FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY It was in Honolulu during the last week of March 1986 that the idea for the Political Film Society was approved during the first meeting of the now-defunct Hawai`i Political Studies Association (HPSA). Within two weeks, the Society was launched with the same membership as the HPSA, but
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