"I felt at that point as though I had walked into Germany 40 years after the Holocaust, only to find the Nazis still in power."
This inventive and provocative documentary is about Indonesia’s genocide in 1965, wherein Indonesian President Sukarno’s government was overthrown by the military. Anyone who opposed the military dictatorship could be accused of being a “communist” and, therefore, executed by death squads. Many of these death squad officials were previously small-time gangsters and some are considered “heroes” in Indonesia. In less than a year, there were over one million “communists” who were murdered by these death squads...
--I realized everything we buy is produced in places where there has been mass violence or the perpetrators have won and where in their victory they have built in a fear to keep the workers who make everything so oppressed that they are unable to get the human cost of what we buy incorporated in the price tag that we pay.
Every sweatshop in the world is located in a place like Indonesia and I realized, this is the dark underbelly of our reality and it needs to be explored and exposed--
(via tcDailyPlanet)
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Tonight on TDS, director Joshua Oppenheimer, promoting his documentary The Act of Killing; and on TCR, 'Conscience of the Congress' Rep. John Lewis, promoting his new graphic novel, March Book One . |
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