Directors: Sylvia M. Zakhary & Sing J Lee
Production Company: Mamag Studios
Producers: Will Hudson, Sarah El Khawand
Creative Director: James Bailey
Cinematographer: Frank Mobilio
Production Designer: Spencer Graves
Costume Designer: Krisana Sotelo
Editor: Ryan Beck (Final Cut UK)
Color Grade: Houmam Abdallah
Sound Design: AJ Murillo (Barking Owl)
They are one of the most influential figures in American 20th century history. It’s time you learn their name. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey. My Name is Pauli Murray is coming to theaters September 17, and streaming on PrimeVideo Oct 1.
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To date, only three comments have been submitted from Columbus-Muscogee:
A. Russell of Muscogee County:
we would like all of Muscogee to be in one district. it would be my idea for Muscogee, Harris, and Meriweather to all 3 move to the 2dd Congressional District. thank you for this meeting.
A. Corley of Muscogee County:
I have bodycam footage of the kidnapping that was concealed during the TPR. I have SAAG Kent Lawrence and Mathias Skrowneak signatures on orders that they prepared for the Judges to sign. Kidnapping is a felony and placing my daughter up for an unlawful adoption is human trafficking. I have everything properly documented and authenticated with certification and seal. I also have audio recordings. Gov. Kemp was forwarded everything from Senators Johnny Isakson and Kelly Loeffler’s office as, federal government had to give the the State opportunity to investigate before they could. Gov. Kemp can do something as, he appointed the Commissioners for DHS. Gov. Kemp can do something as, he is head of the State of Georgia and is the executive level. Gov. Kemp had the authority and responsibility to enforce the laws made by the General Assembly. The executive branch which Gov. Kemp is under is defined as: Executive Georgia’s main executive official and head of state is the governor.
H. Underwood of Muscogee County (yours truly):
Good evening committee members, my name is Harry Underwood. I’m a resident of Columbus, a resident of Georgia since 1993 and a board member of Better Ballot Georgia, which advocates for instant-runoff voting, also known as ranked-choice voting. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you how shameful and tiring I find this practice of redistricting by elected legislators, and how we Georgians ought to know better that this political system – of winner-take-all elections, of partisan redistricting by legislators, of restrictive ballot access laws – perpetuate a baked-in culture of constant two-way factional disrespect, drowning out the needs of our state’s residents. Other than these United States, no other political system on earth has quite the amount of unilateral temerity shared among so many elected legislators to bake in incumbent advantages for their own (and their friends’ own) benefit over the next ten years. The people of this state – no matter what party we may support – should feel upset that our elected legislators won’t let themselves compete on competitive grounds nor let themselves be judged by their ideas and goals for legislation across whole communities, not partitioned neighborhoods who are traded between districts because of their partisan lean. We have done this for over 200+ years, with one party having done this for most of this time, and another party which gained power in the early 2000s now doing the same thing. It is time to say “enough”. The people of this state should demand a better political system than that being exhibited through this committee. Georgia should adopt independent, nonpartisan redistricting by a jury of citizens representative of our state’s demographics. Georgia should adopt multi-winner districts and proportional elections systems including ranked-choice voting. Georgia should let those who want less compromise on their political principles register their own political parties with less cost and overhead than is currently, irrationally demanded under state law, so that we could have even more competitive elections. Georgia should adopt rules which count our state’s prisoners, who are currently barred from the voting franchise, as residents of their last voluntary residence rather than of their current prison, so that prison-hosting districts are not artificially inflated in their numbers during the redistricting process. And finally, Georgia should join 30 other states, including our neighbors in South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, in adopting a state constitutional amendment requiring all elections in this state to be free, fair and open without civil or military interference. These five reforms could make for more elections which are reflective of our communities and demographic changes without legislators feeling the need to create maps which bake in their own advantages over the course of at least the next five successive legislative elections. These reforms could make for elections in which candidates feel more of a need to seek consideration from all voters, not merely those who “look” like they would vote for a certain party. And these reforms could set the guardrails for how our demographics are represented in our General Assembly without pitting our legislators against their constituents. I ask the members of this committee to consider the adoption of nonpartisan redistricting, instant-runoff voting, fairer ballot access laws, a ban on prison gerrymandering, and a free elections amendment to our state constitution. Thank you.
By comparison:
89 from Fulton
72 from DeKalb
46 from Athens-Clarke
25 from Cobb
25 from Forsyth
18 from Macon-Bibb
17 from Gwinnett
11 from Rockdale
10 from Augusta-Richmond
9 from Cherokee
9 from Glynn
8 from Chatham
6 from Dougherty
6 from Whitfield
5 from Camden
5 from Fayette
5 from Hall
5 from Henry
4 from Baldwin
4 from Bartow
4 from Clayton
4 from Columbia
4 from Oconee
3 from Barrow
3 from Floyd
3 from Houston
3 from Jackson
3 from Madison
3 from Newton
3 from Tift
2 from Decatur
2 from Pickens
2 from McIntosh
2 from Morgan
2 from Towns
2 from Walker
2 from Ware
1 from Bryan
1 from Bulloch
1 from Burke
1 from Carroll
1 from Chattooga
1 from Coweta
1 from Crisp
1 from Dade
1 from Douglas
1 from Effingham
1 from Gilmer
1 from Harris
1 from Johnson
1 from Jones
1 from Monroe
1 from Montgomery
1 from Toombs
1 from Walker
1 from Walton
1 from Washington
1 from White
In the meantime, a special session of the General Assembly has been called by Governor Kemp for November 3 to redraw congressional and legislative districts for the next ten years. Partisan gerrymandering is likely, with no constitutional guardrails in place at the state level and the process being controlled by Republican legislators.
In addition, it will be the first redistricting process since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance provisions, meaning that state legislatures do not have to submit their maps to the U.S. Justice Department for review for any racial bias prior to implementation. Finally, it is possible that bills will be filed to ban local governments from issuing mask or vaccine mandates, a bete noire of Republicans nationwide.
A SPLOST referendum for Columbus has been scheduled for November 2. On the ballot is a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (or SPLOST). A “Yes” vote would raise the current sales tax in Columbus from 8% to 9% for nine months, starting in April 2022. The goal is to raise $400 million, $200 million of which will go to rebuilding or renovating the existing, deteriorating Government Center and to build a new Judicial Center.
In addition, according to the question on the ballot, the other $200 million would be dedicated to “Road, Street, and Bridge Improvements; Trials and Sidewalks; Storm Water Projects; Parks and Recreation Projects; Golf Facilities; Public Safety; General Government Vehicles and Equipment; Technology Enhancements; Columbus Ironworks Convention and Trade Center Improvements; Columbus Civic Center; and Economic Development (collectively, the “Capital Projects”)”.
If “No” prevails, the sales tax would go back to 8%. The most recent renewal of the 1% sales tax was approved in June 2020 for the Muscogee County School District.
Early Voting Begins October 12-29, from 7:30am to 5:30pm, with weekend voting on Saturday October 16, Saturday October 23 and Sunday October 24. Early voting will take place at the Citizen Service Center on Citizen Way. Absentee ballot applications are open to October 22, with a dropbox being available only during Early Voting hours (meaning that the dropbox is locked overnight, thanks to the odious SB202). Absentee voting applications are being accepted from now until October 24; applications can be downloaded, filled out digitally and emailed to muscogeeelectionsandregistration@columbusga.gov.
A T-SPLOST renewal for the River Valley region was approved by the other county commissions of the region for 2020 except for Columbus-Muscogee, with Mayor Skip Henderson saying in 2019 that Council would campaign against placing the item on the 2020 ballot if it conflicted with the aforementioned general SPLOST. The general SPLOST itself ended up being delayed to November 2 2021, while the T-SPLOST renewal for River Valley was absent from the June 9 2020 consolidated primary ballot. The River Valley Regional Commission has the option of placing the T-SPLOST renewal on the 2022 ballot.
Misinformation abounds about the removal of Confederate monuments in across the Southern United States. In this video, I discuss the common misconceptions about these statues. Join me in making treason odious.
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[2] “City of New Orleans Begins Removal of Divisive Confederate Statues Commemorating ‘Cult of the Lost Cause’” (2017). Nola.gov https://ift.tt/2DQ5RGk
[3] Andrew Caplan: “Confederate Statue Removed From Downtown Gainesville” (2017). The Gainesville Sun https://ift.tt/3iQS1ST
[4] Alex Horton: “Tennessee Lawmakers Punish Memphis for Removing Statue of Confederate and KKK Leader” (2018). The Washington Post https://ift.tt/3g0cgLT
[5] “Kentucky City Removes 2 Confederate Statues from Courthouse” (2017). CBS News https://ift.tt/2E8QA2W
[6] Lisa O’Donnell: “Remove Confederate Statue or Face Possible Legal Action, Winston-Salem tells United Daughters of the Confederacy” (2019). Greensboro.com https://ift.tt/3kUauj1
[7] Tom Foreman Jr. and Jonathan Drew: “Confederate Statue Removed from Winston-Salem Courthouse” (2019). Salisbury Post https://ift.tt/313pQK4
[8] Jon Greenburg: “Kemp Decries Calls by ‘Radical Left’ to Remove Washington, Jefferson Statues. We Looked For Examples” (2017). Politifact https://ift.tt/31WgyPn
[9] David A. Graham: “Where Will the Removal of Confederate Monuments Stop?” (2017). The Atlantic https://ift.tt/3g7LBwB
[10] Matt Atkinson: “Jubal Early and the Molding of Confederate Memory” (2016). GettysburgNPS https://youtu.be/QZ2Md83uIP4
[11] Caroline E. Janney: “The Lost Cause” (2009). Encyclopedia Virginia https://ift.tt/3i0gDul
[12] Brad Epperly, Christopher Witko, Ryan Strickler, Paul White: “Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S.” (2019). Cambridge University Press https://ift.tt/3gYE5pc
[13] “’Their Own Hotheadedness’: Senator Benjamin R. ‘Pitchfork Ben’ Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks.” History Matters https://ift.tt/39M1kB7
[14] Annie Cooper Burton: The Ku Klux Klan (1916). Warren T. Potter https://ift.tt/3fYDq5L
[15] Codie Eash: “The Pennsylvania Veterans who Opposed Gettysburg’s First Confederate Monument” (2019). Pennsylvania in the Civil War https://ift.tt/2PY02sH
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[17] “Neo-N@zi Provocations on the Rise in Germany” (2020). Courthouse News Service https://ift.tt/3g3ig6H
Voguing, and the ballroom scene that gave rise to the dance genre, were started in New York City in the 1980s by Black and Latinx queer folks seeking a place to be themselves. And now, the ballroom culture has taken roots in China, creating a a safe space for LGBT youths to express queerness and find each other.
Dekker returns on 16th October with ‘The Love’ his final single from his upcoming 12-song debut album Slow Reveal: Chapter One which follows on 20th November.
About ‘The Love’ Dekker writes, “I wrote this song around a simple 4-chord loop. Something in the pattern hypnotised me and I found myself cycling through these chords in a trance. In this song (and video), I’m disoriented and dreamlike in service to and in pursuit of love.”
MUSIC:
Author, guitar, voice by Brookln Dekker
Drums & percussion by Stefan Wittich
Mixed by Paul Pilot
Mastered by Andreas Stickel
VIDEO:
Videography by Brookln & Ruth Dekker
Directed by Brookln Dekker
Edited by Brookln Dekker
LYRICS
I know enough about love
To break it
I’ve heard enough about love
How to make it
I wrote a song about us
Are we faking
I hope it’s not about us
I’d put myself on a tree
Like the lord
With my feet
Off the ground
And I’m bound
And the nails
How I’d bleed
I’d give it all for love
All of my breathe for love
I want a run-in with love
Take me
I want to know the whole love
I’m aching
I know it’s all about love
No mistaking
Let me and I’ll bring the love
I’d put myself on a tree
Like the lord
With my feet
Off the ground
And I’m bound
And the nails
How I bleed
Now take me down from this tree
Take me down
To my knees
Take me whole
I want to live in the love
I want to share in the love
While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.
Using a realtime game engine, a motion-capture facility, and off-the-shelf visual assets, acclaimed VFX artist Sava Zivkovic showcases the immense potential of Virtual Production to filter down to indie filmmakers everywhere.
A selection of Short of the Week, the web’s leading curators of quality short films.
“Did you know that Jon Favreau “shot” the latest Lion King in VR? That the reason The Mandalorian is able to produce such epic landscapes on a TV production timetable is that it is filmed in front of a giant LED screen which adapts to the camera in realtime? Oh, you did. Disney is the biggest name in entertainment and never suffers from a lack of publicity, so it makes sense that you’ve encountered one of the many trend pieces that describe the emerging field of “Virtual Production” and how it is a “gamechanger” and “the future of filmmaking”.
You may know this, but it is one thing for these bleeding-edge tools to be in the hands of creators at multi-billion dollar studios, what you might not know is how close we are to their adoption by the rest of us.
Today’s short is truly a fascinating glimpse at the current state of play. From acclaimed VFX artist Sava Zivkovic, Irradiation is a 9min mood piece that crosses sci-fi horror with “Chernobyl”-inspired imagery, creating a heady CG animated short long on atmosphere and menace. Many of the usual hallmarks of a sci-fi proof-of-concept apply here: detailed, photo-realistic characters that might trick more than a few of you, terrific motion, cinematic direction, and detailed environmental worldbuilding are all featured. What is even more notable than the end product though is how it came together; both its workflow and the film’s status as a personal passion project.
Using a realtime game engine, a motion-capture facility, and off-the-shelf visual assets, Zivkovic creates a million-dollar-looking animation largely by himself. Irradiation is great, but it’s not terribly dissimilar from work we see all around us—in movies and TV, or advertising and gaming. However, as recently as a couple of years ago, you’d expect work of this quality to require at least a small studio and/or for it to take months of labor. Instead, Zikovic produced Irradiation in 4 weeks in a manner more akin to an indie guerrilla shoot…
Translation – Marnia Vasilkina and Polina Zabrodskaya
Dialogue Recording Coordinator – Eugene Krasnoded
Dialogue Recording – NevaFIlm
Dialogue Processing and Final Mix – Bogdan Brakovic
Sound Design, Foley Artist, Foley Engineer, Sound Editing and Mixing – Marko Zivanovic / Devotion Studios
Music by – Iz Svemira
Realtime TD – Michael Zaman
Rigging Support – Lucas Salamon
In a little more than 10 years, Bitcoin has become a ubiquitous part of everyday life, and the community around Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) has grown exponentially. People have gotten rich off Bitcoin, you’re told; put money in it, and you’ll get rich too. But it’s all a lie. Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street, explains.
Citations are provided in the video. But we highly recommend, as an additional source, Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s “Bitcoin Black Paper”: https://ift.tt/3h499VS.
0:00 The Financier’s Story
1:09 The World of Bitcoin
3:07 Is Bitcoin an “Investment”?
5:04 What Bitcoin Represents
7:15 Credits
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