ATTN DC & NYC Reasonoids! Don't Miss Upcoming Screenings of America's Longest War!
The human cost of the war on drugs is the subject of ReasonTV's new documentary, America's Longest War. A 2013 Anthem Film Festival grand prize winner, America's Longest War uses archival footage and personal stories to demonstrate how the war on drugs has eviscerated civil liberties, strained the prison system to its breaking point, saddled Americans with billions in debt, and left more than 60,000 Mexicans dead. With your support, we hope America's Longest War will help spur change in America's misguided drug laws.
The Cato Institue will be hosting a screening of the film on Thursday, September 19 at 4 p.m. ET in the Hayek Auditorium. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring ReasonTV's Paul Feine, who directed and produced America's Longest War, American Enterprise Institute Fellow Michael Barone, and Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office. Please register for this event.
Reason will be hosting a screening at the French Institute in New York City on Tuesday, September 24, starting at 6:30 p.m. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, John Tierney of the New York Times, and America's Longest War Director Paul Feine. The evening will be hosted by our friends at the Smith Family Foundation. For tickets, please register at Eventbrite, or RSVP to Mary Toledo at mary.toledo@reason.org or 310-391-2245 by Friday, September 20.
Watch the trailer for America's Longest War.
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Directed by Buttman, huh? That’ll get the attention of conservatives!
Sorry, *Produced by Buttman*
Good for Reason for making this. But why the hell would I or anyone else who knows better pay money to be kicked in the balls for two hours?
Yeah. What you said.
I don’t think they made it to convince us.
by us, I mean we here at H&R.
The trailer was enough of a kick in the balls.
OT:
The French promise when seconds count, the gendarmes are only minutes away:
“Uproar as French jeweler kills thief, is charged”
“Even when faced with the unbearable, we have to let justice prevail,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday”
That’d be a guy who wasn’t threatened by the thief.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/cri…..820284.php
They use the term “thief” when the correct term is “robber”. Dude had gun.
Damn! I’ve been using the wrong term for those government robbers this whole time!
I’m most likely entirely wrong, but isn’t the French judicial system predicated on the concept that you are guilty until you prove your innocence?
I for one am just glad that our congress is about to act in defining who is a journalist so that no one will take seriously propaganda like this from obvious non-journalist. For the children.
Tricky Dick deserves to be on the Trillion Dollar Bill, but I thought they were going to mint a trillion dollar coin instead.
Or is that on Oct 1st?
Billion dollar bills are Gippers, I thought the trillion was supposed to be a Meese.
The trillion dollar bill has Harry Truman on it, simultaneously giving a thumbs up and an “A-OK” sign.
KOCHTOPUSS PROPAGANDA!
Only Diane Feinstein can save us from evil like this.
needs moar rethuglican.
Do your time Obama!!! That motherfucker should resign his presidency and spend a decade in a cage if thinks terrorizing drug users is a good idea. Fuck these drug war terrorists.
You must be new here if you think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that that will ever happen.
I don’t expect anything to change.
I thought Who wanted to ban cigarettes alongside pot… or maybe that was WHO.
What?
President Biden!
Don’t get my Biden Boner going again…
OT: Now that he’s in the Illinois Home for Retired Politicians, you can bid on Jesse Jackson Jr’s Mink Coats.
I just couldn’t wait for PM links for it.
Will Emily be there to, uh, poll the audience?
Also, why don’t you hold these screenings on Saturdays or Sundays so that those of us that live on the east coast and have jobs/etc. might be able to make them?
Is the point of having the screening in the middle of the day, in the middle of the work week, merely to announce that there was a screening available? Do you just want the “in” crowd to show up or something?
I really don’t understand why you’d want as few people to attend as possible otherwise.
I especially liked the writhing, screaming dog. 4 stars! ****
For those of us who can’t attend festivals or mid-week east coast screenings, when will there be some sort of broader release? Would love to see it!
…and left more than 60,000 Mexicans dead.
That’d be the Mexican WOD, not America’s.
Awww, how adorably naive.
Yes, I suppose you’re right, and that if it were legal in Mexico to grow, transport, buy and sell pot, coke, etc., they’d still be shooting each other just like the tequila and tobacco cartels do. So that’s one reason why they might as well not change anything…
Many of the horrific results of the Mexican WOD are a direct result not only of the American WOD, but direct US involvement in the Mexican WOD.