If a Tree Fall's

If a Tree Falls

This article that I read entitled If a Tree Falls was a very unique, and interesting article, and I liked it very well. It was mainly about this guy who goes by the name Curry Marshall, who has a degree in comparative religion, from Swarthmore college, and experience as a senior producer at a New York multimedia design firm. He got his first start in film making, by directing and editing the 2005 documentary Street Fight.  This marvelous documentary that he shot was about the grassroots, the underdog candidate, named Cory Booker’s attempt to unseat Sharpe James, the longtime mayor of Newark.

 His fans or his audience was very impressed by this major achievement, by the determination to cover of the campaign, despite James’ attempt to control all media coverage, of his public appearances. This film was so tremendous, and marvelous, it aired on PBS, and then later on, it got two Oscars and Emmy nomination. But to sum up this article, called If a Tree Falls it tells you a true story of a environmental Earth Liberation, Front activist, Daniel McGowan, who faced life in prison, for his participation in the burning of two timber facilities. This film have received  best documentary awards , and a Best Documentary Editing Award. This article if watched by many people should take you back to the tragic 9/11 event and shows you how we need to enforce the 9/11 policies more.

The Green Scare mainly introduced the lexicon in 2003, this Green Scare is a term which means, the orchestrated campaign, to paint their movement as a form of domestic terrorism. This term Green Scare seeks a lot of attention, to explain why so many environmental activists appear on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. As well as why and how some activists end up in maximum security prisons. In this film If a Tree Falls, nobody doesn’t mention the word the Green Scare by name, but it does show what the Green Scare is, in action.

Within two decades, the United States has had experienced multiple assaults on the twin towers, in NYC, and the horrific bombing of government offices in Oklahoma.  In the 1990’s, both local and national news stations,  started to inform the term “terrorists”, to environmental activists, who had never harmed, or killed a human being in any way. Law enforcement has directly focused on the environmental activists in a violent way. By intimidating the people who been protesting in the streets.  

If a tree falls is a very bad, but yet difficult, film to watch, mainly because of the police who assaulted peaceful, nonviolent resistant, environmental protesters, with strong-arm tactics, and with chemical weapons? The most memorable scene from this article is, when police officers held the heads, of young female activists, who sat with their arms linked together, while other officers apply liquid pepper spray, directly to their eyes, with Q-Tips. Which is extremely uncaused for, and wrong of the police to act in an idiotic way?

One thing that I didn’t know about this article If a Tree Fall, was that it was a article and a film. Also this article was very informative to me, as well as to others, who had read it. Also it tells you, and goes step by step, what this article is about, as well as the cause and effect of this article.