The People Speak - Sundance Film Festival - Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt performs a piece from Howard Zinn's The People Speak at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

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[fightfascistpigs]

Why not just get up and leave? Because I'm one of the many people who LOVE the people who have been screwed by the elite of this State from its formation. Why wouldn't I want to help fix it? I'm wasn't complaining about MY situation, I am talking about the oppressed people of the world. Where every I go there is oppression. What good would it do for me to move?

This system is the one that needs to change not me, and not the common people of this Earth.

[fightfascistpigs]

Well, I agree that "NO nation has the right to exist." But what you're saying is if that nation has more might then it DOES have the right. Social Darwinism is a disgusting ideology and is the basis for things like fascism and racism.

The State is in your head. Its in everyone's head. But it doesn't exist until we play it out everyday. Are you saying that the natural order is to create States and bureaucracies?

Yes Mexicans speak the language of their conquerors. I'm not questioning this.

[tasinallb]

Thank you Howard Zinn, Thank you Benjamin Bratt

[toseeornot2see]

I read a few comments about Darwinian thinking. Well, I thought I would add a little something.

The well known Anarchist, Peter Kropotkin, who was also a zoologist, discovered that the species that survived over time were the ones that stuck together. That is a very logical observation and applies to human beings, too. If we are to survive as a species, we must work together.

[Tzimnewman3]

@vatoencabronado Those people have small brains with little if almost no brain cells. The best example of is of the Neanderthals. They were much stronger then the modern Human. What wiped them out was had nothing to do with strength. The climate changed and the forest died off leaving open land. They couldn't adapt to the new enviroment. Survival of the fittest. The Human's were the fittest has we adapted to this change.

[RedQueen112]

@destrampadilla Bartolomé de Las Casas

[123philhenderson]

Is there somewhere online where I can see the whole movie?

[fightfascistpigs]

@vatoencabronado AND? Did I say the social Darwinism is about evolution? No. So I don't think we are actually in disagreement here.

[vatoencabronado]

@fightfascistpigs Social Darwinism has no scientific link to Darwin's theory of evolution, and it's a gross misinterpretation of science. It isn't survival of the strongest, it's survival of the fittest, where fittest describes those organisms able to most quickly adapt to their changing surroundings, not those who can stand on the heads of their neighbors. Unfortunately fascists, statists, and even capitalists leave out this little known fact.

[niggerbitchhify]

some good points were brought in this film. But there was also some bullshit , like the joto would actually walk down the street in the Barrio with his white lover ? come on bullshit. and the E.R at General was fake it doesnt look like that at all, 50 50 good and bad film

[destrampadilla]

who wrote this please? i cant catch the name