Category: 2024

ACLU Experts Say Trump’s Project 2025 Is a Roadmap to Authoritarian Rule

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A Roadmap for a Tyrant: ACLU Experts on Project 2025

 

The team that developed 2025 consists of over 140 former Trump administration officials, laying out a series of invasive and downright harmful proposals to go after most fundamental rights. Take abortion rights, for example. Project 2025 wouldn’t stop at sweeping abortion bans – already a devastating prospect. Their proposal goes even further, cutting funding to states that don’t report a slew of deeply specific and personal medical details regarding abortion, miscarriage care, pregnancy complications, and reproductive health care in general.That’s a massive invasion of privacy. It is absolutely weird that anyone would want the government having so much information about our personal health. But you know what else it is? Dangerous totalitarianism.

Every proposal in the Project 2025 manifesto has this same, disturbing focus – they want to strip away rights at any cost. That’s why we’re showing up in force to stop Project 2025 now. Our experts have the strategy to win across every civil liberty issue at stake – but we need you with us.

 

*the WORD considers Trump – because of his extreme racism and hostility to People of Color – an Existential Threat. Too many of his Base are way too comfortable with those MAGA creature features. And too many corporate news media don’t bite the bullet when they write about him being an authoritarian or a tyrant and obviously dodging the racism issues.

Publisher, Editor Gregg W. Morris

Can be reached at gregghc@comcast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com

 

2024 Hollyshorts Film Fest
A Hell of A Must-See

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HOW TO SUE THE KLAN is a riveting tour de force by Director Jon Beder for a number of reasons but here is one standout. The meticulous and unflinching way he made the film makes the 35-minute short feel as if it has the aesthetic sweep and scope of a feature-length movie resonating with African-American philosophy, history, culture, activism. And lore.
Review, article by Gregg W. Morris

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Waco Indie Film Festival 2024 announces Filmmaker Awards

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The Waco Indie Film Festival, formerly known as the Deep in the Heart Film Festival, brings the Central Texas community together through independent film. Established in 2017, they engage audiences with films from major festivals and Texas talent. They build networks and careers through their industry education and promotion. Add in some chips & salsa with the Waco Indie magic, and they create one of the most unique experiences on the festival circuit. For more information visit www.wacoindie.com and Facebook.com and Instagram.com. – Article by Gregg W. Morris

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WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN? (2024) Film Short Review – Hint: This Meticulous, Sublime 24-Minute Short Can Whisk Your Breath Away, It’s That Good

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This film will captivate audiences with its incredible emotional depth and compelling narrative. Hint: 7,997 views were registered July 1 on the YouTube trailer site. The meat of the story are the polygraph scenes of the two men dueling and dealing with five questions put them: And they better not lie or there goes the inheritance. Inheritance? This reviewer is providing one of the tantalizing questions; to do more would be a spoiler. – By Gregg W. Morris

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FISHTANK Film Review

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Director Wendi Tang’s FISHTANK: Winner of the 8th Tribeca x Chanel Through Her Lens Program. Winner of the 2022 Film Pipeline Short Script Competition. Audiences should be prepared for a surreal drama combining traditional narrative with experimental elements to challenge audiences’ understanding of the norms ingrained in society and expected of them.

 
I think I’ve pretty much deciphered the surreal and the enigmatic for a review article that doesn’t spoil nor despoil the cinematic surprises in Director Tang’s deftly made flick. However, FISHTANK also required a different approach to reviewing it – audiences may have to  keep eyes and ears more open more than usual.
– Reviewer Gregg W. Morris

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