Back in 1969, 14-year-old Beatles fanatic Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, Levitan convinced Lennon to do an interview.
38 years later, director Josh Raskin has created a hauntingly beautiful animated film using Levitan’s original interview recording. Using the “Yellow Submarine”-inspired pen work of James Braithwaite and digital illustrations of Alex Kurina, “I Met the Walrus” perfectly encapsulates Lennon’s prescient thoughts on politics and peace.
Dear Rednecks,
There’s no question John McCain is getting a free ride from the mainstream press. But with the power of YouTube and the blogosphere, we can provide an accurate portrayal of the so-called Maverick. We can put the brakes on his free ride!
Since we first released The Real McCain a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain’s record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media’s love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: The Real McCain 2.
Watch the video http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/27536244/39179
We’re doing everything to get the facts out there about McCain. Join us in making a concerted effort to tell the story that corporate media refuses to tell. E-mail this video to all of your friends and family members, news blogs and other local media outlets. And don’t forget to Digg it!
According to Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn’t:
“It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship.”
The mainstream press may not do their job, but we can surely do ours. It is crucial that we alert the public to the REAL McCain, and it is crucial we act now, before it’s too late.
Yours,
Robert Greenwald,
and the Brave New Team
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ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture. He offered this piece at Alternet this morning:
These are excerpts from “Silhouette City,” a new documentary by Michael Wilson that investigates apocalyptic Christian nationalism. The film tracks the rise of this religious fervor over the last three decades, from fringe Christian survivalist groups of the 1970’s to today’s mainstream movement. As you can see from this clip, the current leaders of apocalyptic Christian nationalism include Rev. Rod Parsley and Rev. John Hagee, whose endorsement John McCain has actively sought.
According to Wilson:
“I began making “Silhouette City” because, in late 2001, I began to hear echoes of the Christian extremism from my childhood in Arkansas. In order to quiet the ringing in my ears, I immersed myself in the contemporary Christian right – the media, music, ministries, books, personalities and organizational apparatuses…. As the economy continues to slide, the energy crisis becomes palpable and the occupation of Iraq appears indefinite, the potential grows for a major disruption of daily life. A significant percentage of the population sees these looming crises through a specific lens: a belief that humanity is waging the opening skirmishes of a cosmic war between Good and Evil that will usher in the Kingdom of God. Such belief enables an ever-escalating sense of urgency – very real threats to the middle and lower classes (outsourcing, rising fuel and food costs, etc) combine with perceived threats (secularism, homosexuality, ethnic/religious others) to become overwhelming evidence of the tribulations that signal apocalypse.”
“Silhouette City” focuses on the motivations behind this growing need to adopt an apocalyptic worldview
Dear Friends, Activists, and yes even Music Lovers,There is no issue more serious then the continued militarization of our country and our culture. We have seen this and exposed this from Uncovered to Iraq for Sale to Fox Attacks Iran.
But right now, we want to call attention to someone who not only embraces the song of war, he literally sings it! We bring you that Oldie but Baddie:
The mainstream press is absorbed in the presidential race - the latest poll numbers, the in-fighting between Obama and Clinton - while we seek to expose the true story humming just beneath the surface (yes, this calls for some major puns in a matter very serious… sometimes satire can be the most effective way to reach people).
Take a moment to spread this, and if you’re a digger, digg this. Let everyone see firsthand (with a little help from our composers) that the senator embraces war in a dangerous and irresponsible manner.
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Notes
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