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INTRODUCTION A Taxi Driver is a fictional movie loosely based on real-life events that occurred during the 1980 Gwangju Genocide. A widowed father and taxi driver, Kim Sa-Bok, drives a German reporter, Peter Hinzpeter, from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the uprising. The film was directed by Jang Hoon and produced by Park Eun-kyeong. The …
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In the first minutes of the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom the cameras capture rubble, screams and gunshots. We see a young man slumped over, dead in the middle of a street in Ukraine as people run past him. It looks like a war zone. A man no older than 22 …
The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired an emergence of prison abolitionist thought as more people realize the unjustness of our justice system, including me. I’ve never thought about what a world would look like without prisons before. I thought police were corrupt, but prisons? Prison abolition is still regarded as radical, but is being …
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