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** The Modern Day Indian Wars
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The courtroom is often the place Native people are attacked today.
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** Native Americans Continue to Fight Barriers to Voting
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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 recognized Native Americans as U.S. citizens, yet some states are still restricting their access to voting.
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** Eduardo Galeano on the Curse of Columbus Day
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The conquistadors demanded that America be something it wasn’t.
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** The Truth about Christopher Columbus
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From proud displays of Indians as savage sports mascots, to exploiting Indian land for oil and other natural resources, you cannot convince me that the spirit of Christopher Columbus is no longer with us.
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The Progressive, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Community Shares of Wisconsin and the Center for Media and Democracy, and WORT 89.9 FM present Bad Faith.
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BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision.
Our cast includes religious leaders, historians, investigative journalists, state senators, political activists, sociologists, and a former high-ranking member of the Trump administration. They will guide us on a revelatory journey into why our nation is so divided and how it got there. Several have dedicated their lives to challenging Christian Nationalism’s theocratic vision for America and the film chronicles their actions.
The film also reveals the man who created the machinery, PAUL WEYRICH, the theocratic zealot and masterful political strategist who has until now escaped the glare of history’s spotlight.
Weyrich founded the COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY, which officially doesn’t exist. It operates clandestinely, its membership secret and its meetings closed to outsiders. With the CNP providing invisibility and vast amounts of money, Weyrich engineered the merger of conservative Evangelicals with the Republican Party into what became an armed Christian Nationalist movement intent on overthrowing democracy.
By shedding light on the shadowy underworld of political extremism, our film seeks to awaken citizens to its dangers and inspire them to stand up and show up at the polls.
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** Vigilantes, Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen
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The 2024 election is in danger: 8,500 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters have already challenged the rights of 851,000 voters of color. Investigative reporter Greg Palast (Guardian/Rolling Stone) hunts down the MAGA vigilantes, including one dressed like Doc Holliday—with his loaded 6-guns—who blocked the vote of 4,000 Black soldiers, including Major Gamaliel Turner. Palast and Turner confront the vote rustlers in scenes humorous, weird, and dangerous.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 @ 7PM
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