Revolution on Film

Posted by Adrienne Royer
Sat, 2007-09-01 23:18

We're starting to see momentum change on the web, but the Internet isn't the only medium that conservatives need to utilize. For far too long, the left has taken advantage of documentaries and swayed public opinion through films like Sicko, Jesus Camp and An Inconvenient Truth.

Earlier this week, The Moving Picture Institute announced that Indoctrinate U will premiere on September 28 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Directed by Evan Coyne Maloney, Indoctrinate U is a documentary examining the lack of diversity of thought and enforced speech codes across college campuses in America.

If you're in DC, tickets are only $10 to see what promises to be one of the best documentaries of year.

This film has an interesting history with blogs and technology. As a senior at the University of Tennessee, my College Republican chapter was featured in Maloney's original version, Brainwashing 101, which was then expanded into Indoctrinate U.

The fall of 2003 was the early days of blogging, but as Bill Hobbs noted earlier, Tennessee has a highly organized blogosphere. Through the efforts of what's now the Tennessee Politics Blog with Adam Groves, a former officer of the club, Bill Hobbs and Glenn Reynolds, we were able to communicate our message to a wider audience than just the student paper. Thanks to the help of Tennessee bloggers reaching UT alumni, our local chapter was finally able to make a change on campus.

This is just a small example of what can happen when conservatives work together across all mediums to get a message out. Because of blogging, a small group of college students were able to change a liberal haven on campus. Four years later, the tools in our arsenal have only increased. Immigration was a good example of what happens when Republicans unite their grassroots efforts. If we continue to rally together, a revolution truly will occur.

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Thanks to the help of

Thanks to the help of Tennessee bloggers reaching UT alumni, our local chapter was finally able to make a change on campus.

What was this change you made?

The situation at Tennessee

The situation at Tennessee was pretty confusing. The American Spectator summarized everything up nicely in an article a few months ago.

The students who made the racial slurs were never held responsible. However, the make-up of the Issues Committee radically changed the next year and remains very balanced.

"We're starting to see

"We're starting to see momentum change on the web, but the Internet isn't the only medium that conservatives need to utilize." That's a bold statement that can't be backed up.  Momentum change?  That usually means that one side picks up momentum the other side is losing, which just isn't happening.  Where, exactly, are the Dems falling behind to make that statement true? 

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