Trudell
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This movie is a moving portrait of a man, not a RADICAL but a man whose voice needs to be heard. In this day and age where man is continually raping the planet and the air we breath, we need to wake up and fix what is wrong and separate business interests from government... stop living the lie. - Drubinski , posted 04/30/07 |
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This movie rocked my world, and the words of this true freedom fighter will make you proud to be human. I had the pleasure of seeing a screening where Trudell actually spoke after and answered questions, and let me tell you, this man is so eloquent, yet direct and piercing in his critique of the system. Trudell is ZERO bullshit, the real deal. There are only two more days left to see it, Wed and Thurs nights at 5, 7:20, and 9:40 PM. Check it out. here's more info on the man and the movie: Incorporating years of work‚ 16mm and Super 8 film‚ video‚ and archival footage‚ TRUDELL begins in the late sixties when John Trudell and a community group‚ Indians of All Tribes‚ occupied Alcatraz Island for 21 months creating international recognition of the American Indian cause and birthing the contemporary Indian people’s movement. The film goes to Alcatraz‚ returning to what John refers to as his "birth." From Alcatraz we follow John’s political journey as the National Spokesman of the American Indian Movement (AIM)--this work making him one of the most highly volatile political ’subversives’ of the 1970’s with one of the longest FBI files in history (over 17‚000 pages.) In 1979‚ while protesting the US government’s policy on American Indians‚ John burned an American Flag on the steps of the FBI headquarters in Washington DC. Within a matter of hours his pregnant wife‚ three children and mother in law were killed in a suspicious arson fire on a Nevada reservation. This ended John’s involvement in organizational politics. He spent the next four years driving America in a car given to him by his friend and fellow activist‚ Jackson Browne. It was during this period that John’s voice as a poet began to surface. His gift as an orator carried him through his pain and he found a new way to represent his manifesto and cause. In 1983 he began to put his words to music with the help of Kiowa guitar legend‚ the late Jesse Ed Davis‚ and Jackson Browne. Even his early recordings reflect an articulate sensibility and eloquence about the state of the world‚ moving him into the realm of social theorist and philosopher. John does not adhere to a dogma or school of thought but has created his own diatribe based in experience‚ having lived through and taken part in some of the most turbulent American political events of the past century. In an interview with Native actor‚ Gary Farmer (Dead Man)‚ he referred to Trudell as "the Native people’s prophet of these times‚ our Socrates." - Unsubscribed , posted 03/15/06 |
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