Here is a film project that may be of interest to those interested in learning more about the War on Drugs. They were just in L.A. this weekend and I would like to get the filmmaker to come to Orange County and show this film as part of Progressive Christians Uniting-Orange County’s “Conscientious Projector” film series. To my knowledge, PCU-OC, despite some differences that I have with them on other issues, has never done an event on the War on Drugs.
The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs [HD] from Charles B Shaw on Vimeo.
The Exile Nation Project
An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System
A film by Charles Shaw
The Land of the Free punishes or imprisons more of its citizens than any other country. This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America’s criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government’s 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of “out of sight, out of mind.”
For more information on the Exile Nation Project, visit http://exilenation.org/
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Exile-Nation-Project/127131364022016
Let us know if you are successful with getting it screened in OC, I’d be interested in doing a piece about it.