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Ruling Through Law

[In reponse to the film, The Law in These Parts]

By Nicholas Blomley

Notes on Sex Crimes Unit: Highlighting Canada’s Need for Change

By Ashley Kascak

Like many important social issue films, Sex Crimes Unit was hard to digest. As the title implicates, this documentary was definitely not for the faint of heart. It was raw, explicit, and unapologetic, as it should be. And it’s stories like this one that confirms why documentary is so important to the evolution of our society.

Notes on Tahrir – Liberation Square

By Peggy Lam

Stefano Savona’s Tahrir-Liberation Square dives into the movement occurred in Cairo, Egypt on Janurary 25th, 2011, in which millions of protestors took to the streets to demand for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and eventually, won. Through beautiful imagery of protestors flowing in and out of Tahrir Square, Savona crafted a story strictly out of using the people’s voices and capturing the moments of the revolution at its most grassroots level. 

Notes on Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

By Paula McGlynn

Fredrik Gertten says film is about freedom of speech and the right of the "little person" to take a bite of JUSTICE out of the big boys.

Talk after with Randy Hooper, a Fair Trade activist with Discovery Organics

Staying Angry

[in response to the film, Vito]

By Peter Dickinson

“I’ve always been an activist.”
-Vito Russo

Sans Papier

[In response to the film, Imagining Emanuel]

By Zool Suleman

Imagining Emanuel is a timely documentary that deals with one of the central crises of our times – what to do with the many millions of refugees who are escaping from war and other dislocating forces (economic, climate, and others).

The crisis of the refugee.

Staying Angry

By Peter Dickinson

“I’ve always been an activist.” —Vito Russo

Why Tahrir Matters

[In response to the film, Tahrir-Liberation Square]

By Karim Alrawi

On a YouTube clip, economist Jeffrey Sachs states that the world is “facing a crisis of governance.” I believe that to be true and that what happened in Tahrir Square is so far its most visible expression. 

Accessible Sex

[In response to the film, Scarlet Road]

By Dave Symington & Scarlett Lake

Is it the right thing to do?

[In response to the film, How to Start a Revolution]

By Marie Della Mattia

In How to Start a Revolution, we see non-violent tools at work resisting dictatorship. But what lessons does the film hold for advocates for social change here at home in our democracy?

Gene Sharp’s strategies help populations realize that power doesn’t come from the dictators who wield it, it comes from the people.

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