Found this on someones Listal favourites and watched recently. It seems quite rare, but not impossible to find.
Hands on a Hard Body
Hands on a Hard Body
Thanks for this, I'm going to watch it later. I also wonder if this is related to the attached file. I used to download ebooks on Winmx from The Cascadia Public Library.
Thanks justine, I haven't but will be watching that soon. For some reason the song Harriet Brown by Opal comes to my mind.anyone seen "dreams of a life"? i don't think the doc itself is particularly great but the subject is heartwrenching and fascinating and extremely sad.
Just me, but I thought this doc' was exceptionally brilliant. Very moving, beautiful and thought provoking - to be cliched etc. Loved it.anyone seen "dreams of a life"?
I'll see that. I'm a sucker for documentaries about Neve recording consoles.Sound City, about a famed recording studio in LA...
but i can't stand those big smeary abstracts. they look like
melted smarties.
Yeah, that's a good one too. AIM always maintained that Leonard Peltier was railroaded, and it's pretty clear that the FBI went after "the head of the beast" when they went after Peltier. Without giving too much away.mjp, have you seen Incident at Oglala? that's next up in my queue.
Agree totally about the treatment of Native American Indians but need to add: often Native Americans were in a near constant state of warfare with each other, with tribal conflicts over hunting grounds, food, women and slaves; many tribes were driven to extinction pre Columbus. (The Aztecs and Mayans have long histories of brutal warfare as well as a spectacular cultural, artistic legacy). Imperialism (as with the current American Imperialism) is ongoing in dominant human groups. The duality of innate aggression, the need to conquer and assimilate, with the more altruistic, artistic and intellectual desires of humans also brings the spread of learning and development of societies. (Obviously not defending Imperialism here, just pointing out it is endemic in most human behaviour, perhaps 2000yrs from now it won't be).This country has a problem admitting their problem with natives. Growing up in Minnesota, it was shocking the way people would talk about "The Indians." About how worthless and filthy they were. The same way people talk about those who are "below them" anywhere, I suppose.
America would like to write the Americans that were here before the Europeans out of our history. We can't even have a conversation about it. I guess genocide is harder to come to grips with than the slave trade. Though in reality it's six of one, and a half dozen of the other. It's all rooted in imperialism, the curse of religion and manifest destiny (which is itself a religious delusion). Yet most people still consider the European expansion around the globe to have been "progress."
That would be nice if it ever happened without the attendant spread of the bible and the development of religion. And/or the extermination of the societies that are being "civilized." But in human history so far I don't see any example of where it has.the spread of learning and development of societies.