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Harvey Weinstein, Shut Up & Sing, PFAW Foundation
People For the American Way Foundation
www.pfaw.org
Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein Co chairman, and co-founder of Miramax Films, introduces the documentary, Shut Up & Sing at the New York City premiere on Tuesday, October 24th. "To hang out with the Dixie Chicks is to remind us about integrity in this country and also something sorely lacking—courage," Weinstein said.
On Tuesday October 24th, the all-female Texas trio of Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson—otherwise known as the Dixie Chicks—flew into New York for the star-studded premiere of Shut Up & Sing, which was co-sponsored by People For the American Way Foundation and Young People For!
The documentary, directed by Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple, chronicles the aftermath of Maines' comments during a performance on March 10, 2003 in London: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
Those 15 words, on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, sparked an uproar. (It should be noted that two months earlier, President Bush spoke 16 words in this State of the Union that would spark a future controversy of an entirely different magnitude: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.")
Interviewed on the red carpet, the Dixie Chicks stood strongly behind Maines' remarks from three years ago and her First Amendment rights. "I was right to have free speech and to use free speech," Maines told "Access Hollywood."
Shut Up & Sing opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 27 and nationwide.
The film travels with the Dixie Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now famous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the country singers' lives and careers through the writing and recording of their first album since "the incident" and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians.
www.pfaw.org
Length: 139
Rating: 3.60 (19 ratings)
Tags: harvey weinstein dixie chicks shut up sing natalie maines martie maguire emily robinson pfaw american way
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VIDEO THE VOTE PROMO/ PFAW: Problems with 2006 Elections
Heartbreaking expose from VIDEO THE VOTE's John Ennis covering the 2006 Midterm Elections and the widespread problems experienced by voters all over this country as they tried to cast their ballots on Nov. 7th...
This amazing video was filmed by citizen videographers all over the country, who, armed with their video cameras, were dispatched in real time to their local polling place when problems were reported.
Inspired by Ian Inaba's stunning film AMERICAN BLACKOUT and his subsequent project VIDEO THE VOTE, this is the first film to give the thousands of disenfranchised voters of 2006 a voice. Thank you. VIDEO THE VOTE.
Thanks to John Ennis, who edited this beautiful piece for a forum for the People For the American Way Foundation. Also: Kudos Galore to Melissa Giraud, James Rucker, and of course--all the VTV volunteers...
(Original footage from LEONARD SCHMIEGE and JEANNIE DEAN featured from SARASOTA CD-13 VOTER TESTIMONY...great job with the DENT footage, Len. It's a classic.)
Length: 367
Rating: 5.00 (7 ratings)
Tags: VIDEO THE VOTE John Ennis People For the American Way election fraud Jeannie Dean Leonard Schmiege Kathy Dent
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PFAW Spirit of Liberty Texas 2006
Deece Eckstein, PFAW's Texas and Southwest Region Director speech
Length: 345
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
Tags: PFAW Eckstein Deece SOL spirit liberty
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Arkansas AG Dustin McDaniel on PFAW panel
Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO (Thursday, August 28, 2008)
Length: 302
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
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[SEN-NH] PFAW: Lilly Ledbetter
http://politicalrealm.blogspot.com
A new campaign ad from People For The American Way focusing on Republican John Sununu.
Length: 37
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: political commercial John Sununu Senate 2008
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Bill Irwin in 2004 Dramatic Reading of the US Constitution - 21st and 22nd amendments
http://www.pfaw.org -- Bill Irwin reads the 21st and 22nd amendments at People For the American Way Foundation's Constitution Reading at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York. The event was held on 9/1/04.
Length: 160
Rating: 5.00 (2 ratings)
Tags: constitution reading people for the american way pfaw bill irwin 21st 22nd amendment
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McCain Puts 14-yr-old Girl on the Spot, Disses Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=25154 Sen. John McCain, at a 5/7/08 town hall event in Michigan, singled out a girl wearing a t-shirt critical of him and challenged her to ask him a question. She asked about the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have corrected the Supreme Court's destructive ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear: "I was wondering Senator McCain why you had the opportunity to vote to give equal rights to women equal pay [but] you didn't show up to vote and you said that if you did you wouldn't support it."
"This question should be on the minds of millions of working women who may face pay discrimination during their careers," said Kathryn Kolbert, president of People For the American Way. "Senator McCain had the perfect opportunity to embrace equal pay for equal work, but he instead parroted talking points fed to him by corporate lobbyists. It's pretty clear from his response that he's more concerned about the rights of big corporations than those of everyday Americans."
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Length: 114
Rating: 4.20 (173 ratings)
Tags: john mccain supreme court fair pay act equal lilly ledbetter samuel alito goodyear
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