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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 18

  this week i’ve been thinking a lot about ways in which i could help. i can’t do or give as much as some can, but i do have this platform on a site that i dearly love, and i intend on using it for a moment to try and help:

  here is a great resource of blm information and places to sign and donate overall to learn more and help. here is a google doc link to many petitions, places to donate, and even numbers and emails. this is a site where you can split donations among up to 60 different bail funds for protesters, other services and centers. this fund helps black trans protesters with resources, medical care and bail. and…

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  Review by karsten ★★★★½ 12

  This is an AMAZING documentary, please watch it.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 3

  ava duvernay really should already have an oscar by now

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  Review by kailey 8

  i am simply an unimportant fish in the stream but please, please consider donating and/or helping in some way that you can in regards to george floyd and other victims of police brutality.

  a wonderful mutual of mine, siobhan, has a good post with resources.

  some other places you can donate are black visions collective, reclaim the block, and Northstar health collective.

  credit to this Tumblr user.

  here is another doc with resources to compliment the one siobhan posted.

  black lives matter. please consider calling or emailing officials in Minneapolis to continue placing pressure so that George Floyd can receive justice. your voice and your heart matters. thank you all so much.

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  Review by aaron ★★★★★ 2

  this was an absolute mandatory watch to recognise the systematic racism within the police force, government and the rest of the world. 

  It is not enough to share a blacked out screen on Instagram or retweet one #blacklivesmatter post on twitter. we need to stand up, use our voices to amplify and to challenge anti-black actions. we need to become allies, acknowledge our privilege and use it to educate others & help poc. DO NOT STAY SILENT.

  SPEAK UP       |     SIGN PETITIONS     |    DONATE MONEY

  if you’re not angry, then you’re not paying attention.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★ 2

  lotta people will undoubtably only see this as a primer to the issue (dismissing how important primers are, i guess) but there's an astounding power to the way duvernay sequences this, the way she moves us through the major events, records and timelines with passion and anger, allowing black voices & art to naturally narrate, connecting the simple progression of power, policy and victim into the larger, shape-shifting systemic evil we're still allowing to abolish the freedoms/end the lives of lower class citizens, especially POC, today. one moment near the end that cinematically connects footage at trump rallies to footage from the civil rights movement in the 60s is absolutely harrowing as she goes on to present an essential & compelling case…

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★ 14

  35/100

  Not a bad film, exactly—just one that I didn't need to watch, telling me a whole lot of things that I already know. First half hour in particular laboriously outlines 20th-century racial politics, assuming ignorance of such basics as The Birth of a Nation, Jim Crow laws, and the Southern strategy; I felt like I'd accidentally wandered into an 8th-grade history class, started wondering if maybe there were some papers I could correct. Eventually, DuVernay starts making a cogent, vital argument, viz. the tactical imprisonment of African-Americans as an extension of slavery, but in a way that still seems to be pitched at extremely low-information viewers. I was more or less familiar with the substance of O.J.: Made in…

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  Review by matt lynch

  "The opposite of criminalization is humanization."

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½

  Essential viewing.

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★★ 7

  In den USA leben 5% der Weltbevölkerung. Aber 25% aller Häftlinge der Welt.
  

  
  Damit beginnt „The 13th/Der 13.“ wie eine ganz andere Frage um das Warum und Weshalb. Warum beherbergt die USA ein Viertel aller Gefängnisinsassen der Welt, anders wie uns Statistiken weismachen, ist die Mordrate in anderen Ländern wie darin führend Venezuela mit einer Tötungsrate von 81,4 was eine Anzahl von 23.047 (im Jahr 2018) entspricht, Brasilien die noch eine vergleichsbare mittelhohe Tötungsrate von 30,5 und einer Anzahl von 63.895 (2017) aufweist, reisend in Afrika mit der Elfenbeinküste: Tötungsrate 11,6, Anzahl 2.688 (2015), kommen wir erstmals nach Europa wo die Spitze, und für mich doch überraschend ohne jetzt überhaupt eine genauere Idee gehabt zu haben, mit einer Tötungsrate von…

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  Review by hunter strawberry

  our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter

  minnesota freedom fund: minnesotafreedomfund.org
  petition: www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★★ 3

  This excellent documentary by director Ava DuVernay takes its name from the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, which (purportedly) abolished slavery before proficiently displaying the fact that oppression has survived simply by just transforming, and that it's mostly mentalities and behaviours which require modification on an absolute level. There's an extensive assortment of historical footage which both distresses and inflames which are worked in with the talking head interviews of scholars, present-day politicians, as well as activists in the Black Lives Matter movement.

  The roster of the people that DuVernay manages to recruit is impressive. They assist in affirming her assertions very convincingly, and while there are tremendous amounts of horrendous statistics presented, the facts are never delivered…