Red Rose Film Club Hal & Craig

In this episode, Hal & Craig discuss John Frankenheimer's 1962 political thriller THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Janet Leigh and the cynical, political use of a vague Communist Menace. We discuss the history of the Red Scare, the legacy of McCarthyism, and the lives upended in its wake. Discussion also includes:
Craig finally watched Hal's favorite movie: THE DEVILS; Our favorite right-wing moron, Steven Crowder, is still having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day!; Good news on Florida's terrible Don't Say Gay Bill; We read (and laugh at) Armond White's 2023 Better-Than List. Follow us online!
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McCarthyism and the Big Lie by Milton Howard (1953): https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061657866/viewer#page/1/mode/2up  Last issue (January 1958) of the Communist Party’s Daily Worker newspaper: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/v35-n007-jan-13-1958-FINAL-ISSUE-Daily-Worker-Q.pdf  Info on the McCarran Act: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/mccarran-internal-security-act-of-1950/  McCarthy: https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/mccarthy-hearings/have-you-no-sense-of-decency.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/mccarthy-and-army-mccarthy-hearings.html https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures//investigations/mccarthy-hearings/communists-in-government-service.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/oral-history/watt-ruth-young-oral-history.htm https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee#materials https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45037 https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/political-affairs/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/youngsocialist/index.htm   https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/How-red-baiting-crusade-collapsed-in-SF-courtroom-10907115.php

We welcome Daniel Harper and Jack Graham, co-hosts of the excellent anti-fascist podcast I Don't Speak German. We watched Spike Lee's incendiary 2018 thriller BlackKklansman. We discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, Hollywood's complicity in its rise, and Spike's reckoning with making a quasi pro-police film. Discussion also includes:
David Duke's bizarre diet and exercise regiment; We discuss the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Virginia and Daniel and Jack give us an update on the rally's most notorious nazi dorks; The harrowing sound editing of Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and Can there be a movie about cops that isn't copaganda? Daniel's Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/danielharper
Jack's Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/jackgraham 
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Follow us on Twitter/X: RRFC Podcast: @RedRoseFilmPod I Don't Speak German Podcast: @idsgpod  Hal: @shestructured Craig: @KegFreighter Daniel: @danielharper Jack: @_Jack_Graham_ Follow the RRFC Facebook Group Follow Hal's Letterboxd Follow Craig's Letterboxd Sources & Links
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan  https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-duke  

Hal & Craig watched EARTH MAMA, the debut feature from writer-director Savanah Leaf. Discussions include
The United States history of using Child Protective Services to police low-income and black Americans The OSCARS (we talk OPPENHEIMER, Lily Gladstone vs. Emma Stone, and Jonathan Glazer) We celebrate Hal's birthday by discussin their favorite directors; Our favorite films from A24 Follow us online!
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"Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism" by Patricia Hill Collins: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640115  "About CAPTA: A Legsilative History": https://cwig-prod-prod-drupal-s3fs-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/public/documents/about.pdf "Child Protective Service Workers Share Their 'Secret Truths That Haunt'”: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/child-protective-service-cps-social-worker-truth-telling-abolish/

Hal & Craig watched John Sayles 1987 film Matewan. The film, starring Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones, tells the true story of the fight between West Virginia coal miners and union busters whose tactics grow increasingly more violent. Discussions also include:
Aaron Bushnell and his remarkable protest against Palestinian genocide; Hal's new obsession THE FLOOR, the Rob Lowe hosted game show; Our recent watches: Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Barry Lyndon, and The Lighthouse; Anti-union violence and America's history of union busting. Follow us online!
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-26/spirit-awards-2024-protester-previous-winner-merawi-gerima https://x.com/kylebuchanan/status/1761886578073559498?s=20 https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/28/movies/film-john-sayles-s-matewan.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/17/fron-m17.html https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/introduction-to-the-west-virginia-mine-wars.htm  

Hal and Craig discuss high-risk activism and the 2022 thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber). We also discuss:
The end of the Vince McMahon era of professional wrestling; The Insane Clown Posse (WHOOP! WHOOP!) and their fight against the FBI; The misogyny of the police, as seen in Netflix's AMERICAN NIGHTMARE; Jonathan Glazer's new film THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and The effects of successful high-risk activism. Follow us Online!
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SOURCES & LINKS
“Alabama Rising” https://inquest.org/alabama-rising/ 
Anarchist Black Cross Federation (https://www.abcf.net/prisoner-info/)
Arkansas 2020 Uprising Repression links:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-angels-commissary-prison-costs https://staging.bsky.app/profile/queersatanic.bsky.social/post/3khqqoh7boq2u https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/ https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/12/12/little-rock-police-vehicle-arson-cases-end-with-federal-sentencing-of-four-defendants
How to Provide Support to Political Prisoners: https://www.prisonersolidarity.com/how-to
Gundelach, Peter and Jonas Toubøl; HIGH- AND LOW-RISK ACTIVISM: DIFFERENTIAL PARTICIPATION IN A REFUGEE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 June 2019; 24 (2): 199–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24-2-199
McAdam, Doug. "Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of freedom summer." American journal of sociology 92.1 (1986): 64-90.
McAdam, Doug, and Ronnelle Paulsen. “Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 3, 1993, pp. 640–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781286. 
Nepstad, Sharon, Christian Smith; Rethinking Recruitment to High-Risk/Cost Activism: The Case of Nicaragua Exchange. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 April 1999; 4 (1): 25–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.4.1.8152670287r21558
“Struggle for Power: The Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement by the U.S. Government” https://m4bl.org/struggle-for-power/
Zwerman, Gilda, and Patricia G. Steinhoff. 2005. “When Activists Ask for Trouble: State-Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan.” Pp. 85-107in Repression and Mobilization: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, edited by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 
Gilda Zwerman, Patricia Steinhoff; The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 February 2012; 17 (1): 67–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.1.b56l107q2n175778
Zwerman, Gilda, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Donatella della Porta. 2000. “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in the Cycle of New Left Protest in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Italy.” Mobilization 5(1): 83-100. 
Examples of repression: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-government-infiltration-protests/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/19/chicago-nato-protesters-terrorism-charges  https://truthout.org/articles/revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests/ 

In this episode, Hal and Craig discuss Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and its perspective on the War on Drugs, as well as our favorite Soderbergh films. Discussion also includes:
The new king of hip-hop: Ben Shapiro; Craig accidentally watched a Christian horror movie; Steven Soderbergh at the forefront of new cinematic techniques; Movies with large ensemble casts and multiple plot lines; Our recent film watches, including THE LAST DUEL, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW, and THE DAMNED. Follow the Red Rose Film Club:
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SOURCES & LINKS:
1999 UNESCO report “Drug Trafficking in Mexico: A First General Assessment” by sociologist Luis Astorga: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117644 
Gorrin, Morales-Arilla, and Ricca (2023). “Export side effects of wars on organized crime: The Case of Mexico” Volume 144 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022199623000612 
https://www.businessinsider.com/40-years-ago-the-us-sent-mexico-into-a-financial-crisis-and-it-transformed-the-narcotics-industry-2015-9