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From 2013:

#DonaldSutherland: 'I want #HungerGames to stir up a #revolution'

by Rory Carroll
November 2013

"Donald Sutherland wants to stir revolt. A real revolt. A youth-led uprising against #injustice that will overturn the US as we know it and usher in a kinder, better way. 'I hope that they will take action because it's getting drastic in this country.' Drone strikes. #Corporate tax dodging. #Racism. The #Keystone oil pipeline. Denying #FoodStamps to 'starving Americans'. It's all going to pot. 'It's not right. It's not right.'

"Millennials need awakening from slumber. 'You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years.' With the exception of #Occupy, a minority movement, passivity reigns. "They have been consumed with telephones. The voice hardens. 'Tweeting.'

"We are high up in a Four Seasons hotel overlooking Beverly Hills, sunlight glinting off mansions and boutiques below, an unlikely cradle of revolution. Sutherland, resplendent in a dark suit and red tie, is pushing 80. But he is quite serious about the call to arms. 'We did it in '68.'

"The Canadian actor has a venerable record of #leftwing #activism dating back to support for the #BlackPanthers and opposition to the #VietnamWar, but this latest foray into subversion dovetails with promoting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment in a series of four films based on Suzanne Collins's bestselling novels for young adults. It takes forward the story of Katniss, played by Jennifer Lawrence, who must fight other oppressed proles to the death as part of a tyrannical government's strategy of rule through fear.

"The dystopia, called Panem, is built on the ashes of the US, and Sutherland wants young audiences to respond to the allegory. 'Hopefully they will see this film and the next film and the next film and then maybe organise. Stand up.'"

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/19/donald-sutherland-hunger-games-catching-fire

#RIPDonaldSutherland #HungerGamesTrilogy #SuzanneCollins #CatchingFire #Resist #Resistance

Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution'

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The Guardian
Show threadbouriquetOct 27
@DoomsdaysCW And he might be right. I’m beginning to think that with a spineless Democratic Party and a court system slanted towards MAGA, there aren’t many options, other than regional division, which might occur anyway if things continue to spiral downward.
Show threadlin11cOct 27
@bouriquet @DoomsdaysCW
I agree. Regional strength and coalitions possibly even aligning and trading with the EU and other countries. Maybe our federal taxes are paid to the state if the Regime withholds essential funding.
Show threadDoomsdaysCW

Seriously, @lin11c! If we don't receive benefits from the federal government, why should we pay taxes?!! To pay for grifters and ballrooms? F*ck that!

@bouriquet

#HungerGames #Resist #Panem

Oct 27 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadlin11cOct 27
@DoomsdaysCW @bouriquet
It's one of the basic tenets of our Constitution.
Show threadbouriquetOct 27
@lin11c @DoomsdaysCW But when you have an executive branch that doesn’t uphold and defend the Constitution, what’s left?
Show threadlin11cOct 27
@bouriquet @DoomsdaysCW
Yeah that is a bit of a snafu. And it's already happening with the "Supremes". They act like they are the only arbiters of the Constitution's meaning even as they overturn its precedents. There is nothing about a Unitary Executive in there. The exact opposite. We are truly heading for a civil war. I am not going to let these Christofascists tell me what to do or think. ☠️
Show threadDoomsdaysCWOct 27

Same, @lin11c ! I've been railing about #ChristoFascists online since the 1990s, and I'm not about to stop now!

@bouriquet

Show threadlin11cOct 27
@DoomsdaysCW @bouriquet
It's amazing that no one exposed them. The tax-exempt bullshit has allowed them to get very rich. I haven't seen it but "The Family" apparently has the entire history.