Bill Berry

Hi, my name is Joshua Kahn Russell. Right now I'm helping to coordinate the largest protest on Global Warming in history. I'm an organizer, which means I spend my time building power of regular folks to take control of their lives and communities. I've spent half my life helping to bridge movements for racial justice and the environment. Current TV asked me to record my life for 2 minutes a day. The series is gonna be called the 'ACTING UP', so search for that tag if you want. Our protest is called the Capitol Climate Action - CCA (www.capitolclimateaction.org), and will bring thousands to risk arrest in civil disobedience at the Capitol Coal Plant that powers our congress with dirty energy. We have a coalition of over 70 conservation, public health, labor, social & racial justice, faith-based, environmental and other advocacy groups, along with figures like NASA Climatologist Dr. James Hansen, and advocates like Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry and Bill Mckibben who will be joining us and sitting in. We can't afford to wait any longer for the slow gears of the political process, while our economy tanks and the planet burns. I believe now is the time for bold action that communicates a message of urgency. We have written and testified and organized politically. Now is the time to do more for the health of our communities and our planet. There are moments in a nation's--and a planet's--history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil and push for its correction. Such a time has arrived. Join me for the next 11 days in the build up to the largest civil disobedience for climate justice in history. It's gonna be a wild ride.

Cry_Wolf -- Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.

Owen (Julian Morris) learns of a 'game' from Dodger (Lindy Booth).

It seems beyond comprehension that a child would ask her mother to put bleach in the bathwater to lighten her skin. Yet this is a reality for countless members of the African diaspora. For many black women who, like all women, are often judged by their physical appearance being dark-skinned can become their defining characteristic. Directors Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry set out to examine why skin-colour bias per sists and how it affects the lives of women on its receiving end. This is a documentary of testimony. In emotional, heartfelt inter views, women tell stories of being judged inferior, less attractive and even less intel ligent because of their dark skin. They tell of black men passing them over in favour of lighter-skinned women. They also speak of judging one another based on skin colour, and of how it feels to internalize racism that dates back to the Atlantic slave trade, but has been left to fester for generations. Duke and Berry both dark-skinned themselves include a famous child psychology test in which young girls are asked to rate the characteristics of a series of dolls according to skin shade. The results are disheartening. Skin-colour bias is, of course, not limited to people of African descent the popular ity of skin bleaching products throughout Asia attests to this. As a result, Dark Girls takes on a broader reach. It can t correct centuries of deeply held beliefs, nor can it heal every woman who has been demeaned or ignored because her skin is darker than most others. What it can do and what it does so powerfully is share the feelings of frustration and disbelief at one of our most absurd practices.