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Oops....sorry about

EmmaZahn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:17:30 +0000

In reply to What do they mean first wave

Oops....sorry about that.

Guess my knee-jerk reaction shows where my ethnocentrism lies and how (over)sensitive I have become to Zinn-esque revisions of US history. One too many maps and history showing immigration to the US from 1830 onward as if there was none before. That and the standard depiction of american indians as sad dupes or victims. Maybe some were, but not all, not by a long shot.

Now that I have paid better attention, Occupation 101 looks interesting but only increases my puzzlement about Israel.

What do they mean first wave

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:39:23 +0000

In reply to Yes, Jews came over the land

What do they mean first wave of Jewish immigration in the 1880's? Jews were here from the beginning.

I guess that depends on what is meant by "here" not to mention what is meant by "the beginning".

"The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions,..."

The reference was to emigration by European Jews to what is now Israel, not to the U.S.A, and when that began on a large scale.

Here is a link to opinions of the documentary at Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Occupation-101-Voices-Silenced-Majority/dp/B0012OTLIA

So you are one of those

EmmaZahn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:35:18 +0000

In reply to Yes, Jews came over the land

So you are one of those progressives. I realized after I saved that it would likely draw you out.

FWIW, my mtDNA is Cherokee. :D

Yes, Jews came over the land

Donal — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:27:14 +0000

In reply to What do they mean first wave

Yes, Jews came over the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, then stayed until Northern Exposure.

What do they mean first wave

EmmaZahn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:01:00 +0000

In reply to Here is a partial synopsis

What do they mean first wave of Jewish immigration in the 1880's? Jews were here from the beginning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_history_in_Colonial_America#The_American_South

Just a reminder.

Oxy, it might be this:

we are stardust — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:24:27 +0000

In reply to Saw an offbeat one of PBS

Oxy, it might be this: http://www.rmpbs.org/content/index.cfm/program/8645-1220

Here is a partial synopsis

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:53:33 +0000

In reply to Tell me about a good documentary

Here is a partial synopsis from the makers of "Occupation 101".

"The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWpOqAitZLs

Great list! Every damn one of

Richard Day — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:57:44 +0000

In reply to The Last Waltz - directed by

Great list! Every damn one of them.

i am too lazy right now to link but I am nuts about nature docs. The Blue Planet must be seven hours in length and there are so many others. Oprah, Pierce Brosnan....so many great narrators.

Works best when I am depressed. I somehow fly with the elands on the plain or with those fish in the ocean or the birds flightless or not....

The feel for nature docs was imprinted in my brain as a kid watching those Disney shorts before the movie and right after the cartoons.

The Last Waltz - directed by

MrSmith1 — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:59:37 +0000

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The Last Waltz - directed by Martin Scorese about the final performance of the Band.

Night and Fog - The holocaust.

When We Were Kings - About the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire.

F is for Fake - directed by Orson Welles about art forgery and lying.

Crumb - about comic book artist Robert Crumb.

Harlan County, U.S.A. - coal miners

Grey Gardens - about the cousins of Jackie Kennedy

Why we fight - WWII - Frank Capra's response to Nazi propaganda

Woodstock and Monterey Pop ... just for the music.

Saw an offbeat one of PBS

Oxy Mora — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:01:27 +0000

In reply to Tell me about a good documentary

Saw an offbeat one of PBS this week that can't remember the name of, someone else may have seen it. It's in the camp of A-man's blog earlier in the week on the Baltimore beating.

Subject is a cross dresser, named Mark. Walks into a bar--just kidding. Seriously, Mark was in a bar in Kingston New York. He's a drunk. Apparently told a guy he was a cross dresser and when he left the bar he was beaten senseless-literally, by five young guys. The beating erased his brain.

He invented a physical therapy and an alter ego life in one process--he made up a one'sixth scale town fashioned with junk, and peopled with G.I. Joe's and barbie dolls and reinvented his life by making up stories, setting the scenes, putting himself in them and photographing them. The photographs are startling, showing the enormous art talent and imagination of this tortued soul. I found the film redemptive. He made the impossible comeback, inventing every small step of it.

As he says in the film. No one on this earth has a right to judge anyone else.