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A guest post from Double X intern Meredith Simons:
Liz Garbus, the Oscar-nominated director of The Farm, has a new documentary premiering tonight on HBO called Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech.
Her obsession with free speech is understandable: She was raised by
Martin Garbus, a First Amendment attorney who risked the wrath of the
federal government with his involvement in the dissemination of the
Pentagon Papers in the early '70s. Ultimately he is the center of his
daughter’s film.
Shouting begins (free speech is “a miracle”) and ends
(“Don’t let the fucking guys win”) with quotes from the elder Garbus.
His synopses of 20th-century free speech milestones are woven
throughout the film and lend context and depth to the 21st-century
cases his daughter highlights. These are the “stories” of the film’s
subtitle, the cases of three individuals and one group who are
astonished when ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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