Last week I received the call for which I’d been waiting a year. If I were more dramatic, I’d write that I’d been waiting for the call my entire life.
Life with a passport from a country like India is interesting. A couple of friends told me that getting a visa to India, unless you’re going with a hoity-toity tourist group, is quite hard. Getting visas to other countries if you have an Indian passport is even harder.
Continue reading ‘The movement of the people’
After writing two recent articles covering the emerging global revolt, neither of which examined the coinciding emergence and growth of the global police state, particularly in America, I felt it was necessary to briefly evaluate the elite’s repressive response to the coming insurrection of their long-coveted slaves. This article will focus on the developing police state in the United States. An analysis of international police state developments is beyond the scope of this article and a subject deserving another article of its own, if not an entire series.
In the last eight years we have seen a slew of police state legislation, to the point that it has often been hard to keep up. By now, most take the Department of Homeland Security for granted, but the implications of its emergence should not be ignored. We’ve all, of course, heard of the PATRIOT Act*, though by now it is in the back of our minds, having been normalized in the discourse of the mainstream, corporate media. A few remember the ‘continuity of government’ measures implemented during 9/11 (though few are aware that they were never revoked and instead left in place indefinitely). Many haven’t forgotten the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. Still, many Americans have lost track of the legislative developments, or assumed that the end of the Bush era meant the end of the era of police state preparations, which it obviously did not.
*With many controversial PATRIOT Act provisions set to expire later this year, conservative GOP members of the House are mobilizing to reauthorize them.
Continue reading ‘Is America Already a Police State?’
Our “soft” fundraising pitch for END:CIV bought me off the workforce for a month. I am now furiously editing a short piece of the film which I hope to release by the beginning of April.
But fund raising continues, and in order to complete this film we need some serious cash. We’ve been writing grants (thanks Zoe!) organizing screenings and fundraisers and trying to figure out ways to cut corners. The reality is that our message might be too radical for grant makers so we’re not holding our breath. We will continue our grass root efforts and raise a lot through small donations.
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With that said, the talented folks at Centric Studios have donated 50 beautiful posters as a fund raising premium for folks who donate $100 or more. These limited edition 11 by 17 inch posters are based on the print “Satira sobre el cometa que aparecio en 1899” by Jose Guadalupe Posada. They are 3 color and screen-printed by hand on chipboard. Each print is numbered and stamped by the artist.
Continue reading ‘END:CIV Limited Edition Posters’
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