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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:32 pm


I have watched some very fun, informative, educational documentaries over the internet, and I figured the rest of you would love to see them. This is higher quality, more enriching movies than you can find at your typical Gaia cinema fare.

We can watch these movies, and talk about them, and post new movie links up from the internet, especially if they are educational/informational documentary types of films. Let's try to find whole movies, or movies that have been cropped to clips instead of previews/trailers of movies.

Killng us Softly 3: Advertising's Images of Women


Tough Guise: Violence, Media, & the Crisis in Masculinity


I think these two films are excellent. I think they are friendly to the pro-choice culture, even if it is not directly an abortion/anti-abortion issue. Both of them do an excellent job pointing out how prevalent and destructive the media as a whole has on gender and gender relations.

Post thoughts, post movies!
PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:31 pm


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This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions.

First of three documentations on abortion. This one is from 1992.




Youtube link to the videos

What would everyone think about starting up a Pro-choice VJ thing? We could put in informative video's or vids like the one above that show what life was like for women before abortion rights.

Anyone interested?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:57 am


Everyday Heroes for reproductive rights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50HgZx8VvfY

via feministing
Yesterday I was at NARAL Pro-Choice America's luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It was really great: Sarah Weddington - the lawyer who won Roe (!) - spoke, as did Nancy Keenan and Dana Delany.

But what really stuck out for me was this amazing video NARAL played at the event, Everyday Heroes (above). I think it serves as an important reminder that these issues aren't just talking points and politics - they're women's lives.
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