PRESUMED GUILTY might be banned in Mexico
A federal judge ordered today in Mexico the temporary suspension of the screening of the documentary film.Read more about this on the blog of Cinema Tropical.PRESUMED GUILTY is a searing examination of the Mexican criminal justice system through the case of one man, wrongly accused of murder.Labels: censorship, law, mexico, theatrical release
Indian Court Convicts Eight in Bhopal Disaster
More than 25 years after a plume of toxic gas from an American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal, killing thousands, eight former executives of the company’s Indian subsidiary were convicted of negligence on Monday, as reported in The New York Times.The powerful film LITIGATING DISASTER explores how Union Carbide, a company owned by Dow Chemical, successfully manipulated both the US and the Indian legal systems against each other to avoid having to defend its record in the Bhopal plant in court.Labels: Bhopal, Dow Chemical, India, law, New York Times, third world, Union Carbide
Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine action
NPR remembers the anti Vietnam war protest that took place 40 years ago. On March 17th, 1968, in Catonsville, MD, nine members of the Catholic Church stole hundreds of draft records and set them on fire with homemade napalm. The group came to be known as the Catonsville Nine and later that year was prosecuted and convicted.
INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate look at this unlikely, disparate band of resisters who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience. Labels: law, politics, protest, Sixties, vietnam war
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