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TAKE ACTION NOW! FCC: Create a "Sexual Violence" Warning for Television Shows
Society & Culture  (tags: politics, rights, society, tv, rape, ratings, violence, movies, ethics, culture, arts, americans, law, government, freedoms, women )

Cal
- 31 days ago - change.org
Right now, millions of sexual violence survivors are at risk for re-traumatization from the television programs they watch. But there's one easy thing the FCC can do to stop that -- create a "sexual violence" content warning for television.
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RIP: Roger Ebert Dies at 70 After Battle With Cancer
Society & Culture  (tags: MOVIES ROGER EBERT, Roger Ebert, politics, movies, news, culture, obituary, society )

Cal
- 50 days ago - suntimes.com
Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago.
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Serious Film: Trapped in the Green Valley
Society & Culture  (tags: arts, celebrity, movies, interesting, culture, society )

Carrie
- 118 days ago - seriousfilm.blogspot.com
The test of time is absolutely merciless when it comes to putting films in their place. Not winning gets everybody focused on how deserving they are. An ill-timed win accentuates the flaws in a film or performance for decades to come
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Oscar Oddities: A Look at Strange Academy Award Nominations
Society & Culture  (tags: celebrity, movies, media, interesting, culture, society )

Carrie
- 118 days ago - moviefanfare.com
"It's an honor just to be nominated." This is the sort of modest, self-effacing statement that Academy Award nominees will often make to assure the public, the media and perhaps even themselves that they're not desperately,fervently hoping to take home...
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I Would Not Like To Thank The Academy: Oscar Snubs Over The Years
Society & Culture  (tags: movies, media, culture, politics, society, interesting, celebrity )

Carrie
- 118 days ago - moviefanfare.com
Ah yes, the Academy Awards. Never before has such a noble institution been so incredibly off-base. One can't help but wonder what amazing film or performance won't get the recognition it deserves in any of the upcoming ceremonies.
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Selling the Shooting --- William Rivers Pitt
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, children, corruption, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, environment, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, media, movies, police, politics, rights, safety, society, violence )

Kit
- 126 days ago - truth-out.org
All the gun lobby does is bellow about freedom, about the Constitution, about preserving the ability to defend oneself against the onset of an intrusive, tyrannical government.
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Enough: It's Time to Demand a Plan
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, celebrity, children, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, government, Guns, health, law, media, movies, murder, police, politics, rights, safety, society, violence )

Kit
- 147 days ago - upworthy.com
I didn't even realize I could recognize this many celebrities, but every single one of them is advocating for more gun regulation. It's time for our leaders to act.
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Following Massacre in Newtown, A National Call for Action on Gun Violence
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, children, corruption, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, media, movies, murder, politics, rights, sadness, safety, society, violence )

Kit
- 160 days ago - commondreams.org
Can massacre in Newtown break pattern of US indifference to gun violence and cultural depravity that allows it?
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LINCOLN, UNCOMPROMISED
Society & Culture  (tags: movies, media, sadness, interesting, politics, humans, freedoms, rights, society, culture, americans )

Carrie
- 176 days ago - newyorker.com
Universal praise goes, rightly, to the Spielberg/Kushner/Day-Lewis "Lincoln"
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An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, freedoms, government, Lincoln, media, movies, politics, religion, rights, society )

Kit
- 184 days ago - alternet.org
The president was a complicated man whose advocacy of railroads birthed a network of monopolies.
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America the Possible: Breaking the Chains of Consumerism
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, children, corruption, culture, dishonesty, education, environment, family, freedoms, government, media, movies, politics, rights, society )

Kit
- 255 days ago - commondreams.org
The path to a new political economy leads straight away from consumerism and commercialism to a very different world in which getting and spending, material possessions, and overall consumption have a decidedly circumscribed and modest place in-->
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The Koch Brothers Go After Actor Zach Galifianakis and the Film "The Campaign"
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, culture, ethics, freedoms, government, media, movies, politics, society )

Kit
- 288 days ago - truth-out.org
Last we checked, the movie is a comedy. Maybe more to the point is that it's laughable to take political guidance or moral instruction from a guy who makes obscene gestures with a monkey on a bus in Bangkok...
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Composer Marvin Hamlisch Dies at 68
Society & Culture  (tags: americans, music, Marvin Hamlisch, culture, society, world, movies, sadness )

Carrie
- 289 days ago - usatoday.com
The film and Broadway communities suffered an unexpected blow on Tuesday, when Marvin Hamlisch, one of their most prolific and enduringly popular composers, died at 68, after a brief, unspecified illness.
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Colorado Shootings Likely to Change Movie Going Experience Indefinitely
Society & Culture  (tags: safety, culture, violence, society, movies, Aurora shootings, ethics, americans, law, rights, news )

Cal
- 306 days ago - csmonitor.com
In the wake of the Colorado theater shootings, many movie chains have changed their security policies. No masks, fake weapons, or backpacks. But would theater-goers accept metal detectors?
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At Least 20 Wounded in Shooting at Colorado Movie Theater, Official Says
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, usa, society, safety, news, movies, terrorism )

Cal
- 309 days ago - cnn.com
At least 20 people were wounded in a shooting early Friday morning at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, an area hospital official told CNN.
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