GO WATCH THIS TONIGHT -- 9500 Liberty: A Documentary on Immigration Reform, on MTV Networks Tonight
Join filmmakers Eric Byler and Annabel Park for webcast Q&A
[Reprint of press kit materials describing the films.]
SB 1070, the racial profiling law in Arizona, has been tried once before, and it failed.
Please
tune in tonight for the world television premiere of the film, "9500
Liberty" at 8 PM Eastern time, and 8 PM Pacific time on MTV 2, MTV U,
and MTV Tr3s (with Spanish subtitles).
"9500 Liberty" provides a
blueprint for how ordinary citizens can join together across party lines
to oppose extremism. We hope our film will incite civility and make
room for progress, not just the immigration issue, but on issues
involving the responsible practice of democracy.
WORLD TELEVISION PREMIERE
Sunday Sept. 26th
8 PM ET, 8 PM PT on
MTV 2, MTV U, & MTV Tr3s (with Spanish subtitles)
PLEASE JOIN US LIVE ON THE WEB:
Annabel and I will be webcasting our watch party LIVE from the Coffee Party Convention in Louisville, KY.
7:30
PM Eastern/ 7:30 PM Pacific Time — CLICK HERE to watch "Pre-game Show" for 9500 LIBERTY world
television premiere on MTV Networks with MTV VP of Public Affairs Jason
Rzepka, and directors Annabel Park & Eric Byler
8:00 PM Eastern Time/ 8:00 PM Pacific Time Go watch the documentary on MTV 2, MTV Tr3s, or MTV U
9:50 PM Eastern Time— CLICK HERE for Q and A with Jason Rzepka, Annabel Park, Eric Byler and special guests
9:50 PM Pacific Time — CLICK HERE for Q and A for west coast time zone discussion
DVD pre-release addition available at 9500Liberty.com
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This is a movie about unexpected heroes, and karma--when you make a group of people feel unwelcome, you create hard feelings. They leave your town, and your businesses fail. It's also about how people prefer to believe that the pie is finite when in fact, the counter-intuitive is true:
Economists will tell you that immigrants raise wages for native-born Americans. They'll tell you that they make things cheaper for us to buy here, and that if we didn't have immigrants for some of these jobs, the jobs would move to other countries. They'll tell you that we should allow for much more immigration of highly skilled people, because that's about as close to a free lunch as you're likely to find. They'll tell you that the people who should most want a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants are the low-income workers who are most opposed to such plans. And about all this, the economists are right.
Please see this documentary. I did, and it was really instructive to me how a local law in the Virginia exurbs anticipated Arizona's racial profiling law, SB1070. While the filmmakers might not agree with my interpretation, to me it seemed that white purity/anti-immigration groups like FAIR lent much guidance, aid, and mentorship to the right-wing blogger who made an alliance with the local elected official in 9500 Liberty. I'd say that the local law in Virginia was a test case that laid substantial groundwork for what happened in Arizona and is still an issue now. At the very least, FAIR certainly supplied the text of the actual law in Viriginia, as you'll see.
One thing MOMocrats readers might also really appreciate is how the two women in the clip above really stood up for their values and took a strong stand to repeal the northern Virginia racial profiling law. They may be Republican women but they know right from wrong, and too few these days are speaking out and calling out extremists. Best of all, you'll see how they fought the conservative blogger's social media fire with their own social media fire--women after my own bloggin' heart.
See the movie, learn more about what's at stake with Arizona's law, and raise your voice and vote for what you believe is right. Are we or are we not a nation of immigrants?
Cynematic blogs at P i l l o w b o o k and is on Twitter at @cyn3matic.
It's a little funny why some people are still trying to go to places that they are not accepted.
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