Maybe a single film can't change the world, but put a social action campaign behind it and you have the seeds of a movement.
Culture
Child rearing, never an easy endeavour, has become in many ways a countercultural activity.
Try to imagine civil rights marches without the spirituals or South African freedom without toi-toi.
"Multiculturalism" is a popular culture term used by certain people of color and white people.
Two very distinct types of culture exist, and both are active forces in our society today.
1984 is three years past, and the Brave New World is just 20 minutes into the future. That's where the computer-run and video-tranced world of ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" is located.
Let's be honest right up front. Many of us at Sojourners are movie buffs. And basketball fans.
Traditional temptations of money, sex, and power, the media ministers-turned-media moguls have displayed behavior that is at the same time just plain tasteless.
At about the time this magazine reaches most subscribers, ABC's 12-hour miniseries "Amerika" will be fouling the airwaves.
It was an unusual sight--40 people walking through our neighborhood, from house to house, carrying forks.
Nineteen-year-old Rodrigo Rojas de Negri was beaten and burned to death by Chilean security police for participating in an anti-government demonstration in July 1986. Veronica Rojas de Negri is his mother.