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  • VIDEO Housing Rights for New Orleans Hurricane Survivors
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This video includes interviews from evacuees in NY and those who’ve returned to New Orleans. This issue is currently effecting the lives of thousands of people and it’s still not too late to help put pressure where it needs to be put to force the goverenment to deal with these people properly.
    for Video format options 27 minutes
    When considering the rebuilding of New Orleans, every issue eventually boils down to housing. Housing for those who’ve evacuated, housing for those who’ve (…)

  • Brokeback Locker Room
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    A few years ago, I had the privilege of meeting a gay professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz. He desperately wanted to come out of the closet, but feared reprisals and career suicide. The man relayed to me the great difficulty of having an active social life in conservative Utah. As a gigantic, well-known black man in lilywhite Mormon Country, it wasn’t as if could slip into a gay bar unnoticed.
    There were teammates who were aware of his sexual orientation and (…)

  • Brokeback Mountain
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David McReynolds
    Being retired, I decided I’d catch the 3 p.m. afternoon showing of Brokeback Mountain, thinking I’d have the theatre almost to myself. I was surprised to find it nearly half full. I’d wondered what possible audience (aside from gay men) there could be for a film about two cowboys and their homosexual affair. It would seem there is a wide audience - and the film merits it. Brokeback Mountain is not, in the usual sense, a gay film.Those looking for much "full frontal (…)

  • Awakenings
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hollywood may have been slow to reflect the post-Katrina reality of America, but it’s catching up fast with films like Syriana and Homecoming, says John Patterson
    For the past year the bald, ugly facts of the world we now live in have finally begun bubbling out from under the crust of officially sponsored bullshit that until recently constituted reality for many Americans. However, since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and Hurricane Cindy Sheehan hit Crawford, Texas, Pandora’s box has (…)

  • Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Ciabattari
    African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
    PRINCETON, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)—Who will tell the stories of contemporary Africa?
    A new generation has emerged since Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe in 1958 wrote the first "African" novel, "Things Fall Apart," detailing the destruction of the Igbo culture by (…)

  • Four Wizards and a Funeral : Harry Potter goes through growing pains
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by SCOTT FOUNDAS
    In the fourth Harry Potter film, the adventures are more perilous, the spells more powerful and the young wizards’ own bodies roiling with tempests of pubescent emotion. In the end, someone even dies. Yes, true to the prerelease hype, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is most definitely not kids’ stuff - the film, and the lives of its characters, have graduated to a PG-13 rating - and as one who has never read so much as one page of one Potter novel, I can only imagine (…)

  • Too Pretty A Picture
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E.J. Graff
    Isteeled myself as the camera panned slowly over a vast, sprawling mine operation. I’d come to see the new Charlize Theron movie, "North Country," which is supposed to be based on a real story of sexual harassment at the Eveleth Taconite Co., in Minnesota’s Iron Range. I was expecting the film to bring alive the hostile environment the women hired there in the 1970s and ’80s had endured. If it was at all true to life,the moviecould be rough going. But I hoped it would expose (…)

  • It’s Time To Start Taking The Theocrats Seriously
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone needs to realize that "history does repeat itself", or does it have to? Therefore, by studying history, we can hopefully avoid the many disasters that have already happened. Or can we? IT’S TIME TO START TAKING THE THEOCRATS SERIOUSLY by Randolph T. Holhut
    DUMMERSTON, Vt. - The nexus of evangelical Christianity and Republican politics is a force that is transforming the United States, and not for the better. As someone who firmly believes that church and state should be (…)

  • The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
    by Geoff Andrews
    In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…)

  • Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    A film by Mark Manning and Conception Media - To be Released October 18, 2005
    http://www.conceptionmedia.net/
    http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
    A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS: Victims of combat operations in Iraq
    ConceptionMedia presents:
    A Joint Production of Iraqi & American Filmmakers
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FALLUJA ON SALE NOW
    Proceeds go to ongoing relief (…)