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Ed Rampell

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The Palestine Exception: Film as a Form of Cultural Work that Facilitates Movement Building

A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine...

26.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

Get Rid of the Commies: A Blacklisted Boyhood

In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American...

15.12.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

Raoul Peck Discusses Why He Chose South African Apartheid as Focus for New Film

Ernest Cole was one of the most impactful documenters of South African apartheid — and in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found , filmmaker Raoul Peck turns...

30.11.2024 4

Truthout

Ed Rampell

Mike Leigh Sings the Blues

According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a...

21.11.2024 10

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

American Journalism on the Brink

Still from Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink. The Commodification of Newspapers In the Bill of Rights, there is only one private...

10.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

New Film Documents the Struggle and Triumph of Amazon Labor Union

Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s documentary Union is one of the best American films about the labor movement since 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath....

20.10.2024 8

Truthout

Ed Rampell

New Doc Unlocks America’s Deep, Dark Anti-Democratic Secrets by Exposing Electoral College

Image by Allison Saeng. America and its origin story are full of unexamined assumptions, one of the biggest being that voters actually cast their...

29.09.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

“Defending the Indefensible”

How can one explain those members of oppressed minority groups who make a profession out of publicly, as George Orwell quipped, “defending the...

11.09.2024 2

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell

The Virus of Vigilante Vote Suppression Challenges

Image by Alex Shuper. This quotation usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” is a watchword that...

08.09.2024 1

CounterPunch

Ed Rampell