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| "It's
well executed and clear, and you'll be completely infuriated
by film's end." Julianne Shepherd, The Portland Mercury.
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| "The
program highlights included Konrad Aderer's "Life or
Liberty," following a group of Middle Eastern Americans
detained and deported after September 11, and Emily Kunstler
and Sarah Kunstler's "Tulia Texas, Scenes from the Drug
War," which investigates the arrest and imprisonment
of 10 percent of the black population in Tulia, Texas by a
corrupt police officer." Joshua Sanchez, indieWIRE.
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| "Exploring
dusty Tulia, Texas, sisters Emily and Sarah Kunstler uncover
both abiding racism and the surge in political activism sparked
by one shady white cop, whose unsubstantiated claims marked
10 percent of the town's blacks as drug dealers. Talking heads—complacent
cracker jurors, woeful victims—rarely sound this damning."
Nick Rutigliano, The Village Voice. Read
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| "In
the tiny town of Tulia, Texas two years ago, 43 suspects were
arrested on charges of selling small amounts of cocaine, in
the biggest drug sting in local history...We turn now to a
documentary created by the Emily and Sarah Kunstler for the
William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice." Amy
Goodman, Democracy Now! WBAI 99.5. Listen
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| "We
now turn to a documentary on the case of Thomas Miller-El.
It's called "A Pattern of Exclusion: The Trial of Thomas
Miller El." It was produced and directed by Emily and
Sarah Kunstler." Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! WBAI
99.5. Listen
to the radio broadcast. |
| "NPR's
Nina Totenberg reports on oral arguments in a Texas death-row
inmate's appeal before the Supreme Court today. The convict,
Thomas Miller-El, maintains that prosecutors improperly dismissed
jurors from his murder trial because they were black. The
Supreme Court will decide whether Miller-El can challenge
his conviction by introducing historic evidence showing a
pattern of discrimination by prosecutors over many years."
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to the radio broadcast. |
| In
Dallas, Dismissal of Black Jurors Leads to Appeal by Death
Row Inmate "Carol Boggess says she was "eager
and willing to serve" on the jury in the 1986 capital
murder trial of Thomas Miller-El in Dallas. When questioned
by prosecutors, Ms. Boggess, an occupational therapist, said
she strongly supported capital punishment and "had no
doubt at all" that she could sentence a person to death."
By Sara Rimer, The New York Times, February 13, 2002. Read
the full article. |
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