Americans Drawing a Line in
the Sand on June 26
By Mark Anderson
There
is a new film project out there that is intended to raise the level of
awareness about combating tyranny in America. It is being done across
the nation, in a concerted, grass-roots fashion, with activists
sponsoring movie-watching parties to help educate people and spread the
word.
“Americans
are drawing a line in the sand by gearing up to host simultaneous
screenings of the new film Don’t
Tread on Me: Rise of the Republic
on Saturday, June 26,” said Angie Ress of the Illinois-based
Restore the Republic organization.
“Participants
who register their screening receive a signed release from the
filmmakers and a high-resolution movie poster [they can] download for
printing,” she said. They can hang the poster in the location
they choose to show the film as part of the nationwide event.
Registration
for the national grass-roots screening day has already begun. To do so
online, and to get more information, click here.
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Americans
across the country are planning watch parties for the
soon-to-be-released movie 'Don't Tread on Me.'
The
filmmakers are Gary Franchi and William Lewis. Franchi is editor of
Republic magazine, is executive director of Restore the Republic, and
is executive producer and host of RealityReport.tv, an internet news
broadcast produced like a television broadcast but oriented toward
exposing the real news behind the news, getting to the bottom of the
forces that control America.
Lewis has
produced or helped produce a number of films, including Camp FEMA and
Washington, You’re Fired.
The
filmmakers are asking citizens across the country to hold screenings of
their latest film in their home, at their local public library or at a
local cinema if available. Otherwise they can travel to the nearest
location where others are screening the film. As of May 24, Franchi
told AFP that 93 screenings had been planned, 38 of which were public,
mainly in theaters and libraries. He said the list was growing.
Franchi, the
new film’s producer, “intends to send shockwaves
through the American consciousness with this one-day simultaneous
screening to educate and activate Americans on one of the key solutions
to restoring our constitutional republic,” Ms. Ress said,
adding, “William Lewis, director of the film, advocates
strongly for the 10th Amendment as that solution along with clarifying
the real meaning of the 2nd Amendment.”
The 10th
Amendment to the Constitution essentially says the central government
should only exercise those limited powers expressly assigned to it by
the Constitution and that all other functions and duties are
automatically reserved to the states and the people. The 2nd Amendment
says the government shall not infringe upon the birthright of Americans
to defend themselves from any and all aggressors, including government
tyranny, with firearms.
“Screener
packs” have been made available for organizers. These include
either six or 11 official DVDs of Don’t Tread on Me: Rise of
the Republic at a special wholesale price so organizers anywhere
“can resell them at their venue of choice to raise money for
their efforts,” Ress added.
Alongside the
June 26 screenings, Franchi and Lewis ask those who purchase the film
to make copies and distribute the DVD “in a viral
hand-to-hand campaign.”
“During
the years leading up to the revolutionary war, patriots used handbills
printed on hemp to spread the word; today we use sophisticated DVD
duplication software,” Franchi was quoted as saying.
When
contacted by AFP, he added that he is “following in the
footsteps” of Restore the Republic founder, the late Aaron
Russo.
AFP
interviewed Russo in September 2006 not long before his untimely death.
The meeting was during a private screening in Chicago of his noted film
America: From Freedom to Fascism.
Many
observers feel that, with that film, Russo lit a fire in the sometimes
languishing freedom movement.
Franchi told
AFP that he sees this latest film as a follow-up to what Russo started
in order to perpetuate a series of informative films that Russo would
have continued had he survived his illness.
Russo was
perhaps best known for his big-screen movies Trading Places, starring
Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd; and The Rose, starring Bette Midler.
To order copies of the new film Don’t
Tread on Me by mail,
send your order to William Lewis, P.O. Box 30576, Columbia, Mo.
65205-0576. The cost is $19.95 plus $4.50 for shipping. Each additional
CD in the same order costs 50 cents to cover shipping. Make checks and
money orders payable to William Lewis. Shipping costs to Canada are
$6.50 for the first CD and 60 cents for each additional one per
shipment.
Mark
Anderson is
a longtime newsman now working as the deputy editor for AMERICAN FREE
PRESS. Together he and his wife Angie provide many photographs of the
events they cover for AFP. Mark welcomes your comments and inputs as
well as story leads. Email him at at [email protected].
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