This Thursday at 7 PM. Free pizza. We will be having the director Al'Ikens Plancher of Boat People and the Deputy Director of Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition, Renata Bozzetto (an FAU grad), as part of our Q&A.
Florida Atlantic University, Culture and Society Theaters
Raoul Peck has to be one of the most interesting doc filmmakers out there. *Exterminate All The Brutes* is a brutal masterpiece. *I Am Not Your Negro* was an incredible excavating the brilliance of James Baldwin. I can't wait to see this one.
Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u.... This is appalling and any school signing onto this should be ashamed. university of texas is already as signing on. I fear Florida will be next since we war with texas with anti-intellectualism
‘One Battle After Another’ Ticket Sales Are Solid (With an Asterisk) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/b.... I would argue one of his best films, and a film that speaks to the moment while also the complex psychic terrain and fallout that accompanies resistance,
Given the centrality of immigration in South Florida, we will be screening Boat People (2024) and Black Girl (1966). Al’lkens Plancher, director of Boat People, and Renata Bozzetto of the Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition will join us.
This along with the attacks against educators across the country for posting on social media is a levelling-up of the authoritarian playbook against education used in Hungary, Turkey, and Poland.
Solidarity with the faculty fighting back against such cuts. "Austerity" is often used as an alibi, not an actual reason, for gutting programs that don't align with a functionalist, technocratic view of the world.
They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o.... We are starting the semester discussing this in my radical media and social movements class
Some new work my comrade, John F. Lennon, and I have been working on regarding Northern Ireland, Brexit, the Troubles, and street art. Branching out a little. Proud of what we did. Look forward to working on more.
Majorly revising an article on Sound of Freedom, white supremacist media and porno-nationalism. I had the details before but not a coherent argument yet. Think it’s finally coming together. I’m kind of amazed there’s no good scholarly article on this film, at least that I know of.
