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Co-directors Joshua van Praag and Raoul Martinez on Huffington Post Live, talk about the Creating Freedom, The Lottery of Birth and the thoughts and thinkers that inspired the series. Join the conversation.

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Did Snowden do what Thomas Jefferson said Americans should do?

from the Declaration of Independence: 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman appears along with Noam Chomsky in Episode 2 of the Creating Freedom Series. They join Howard Zinn, Tony Benn and many more who are featured in Episode 1, The Lottery Of Birth, to discuss the existence and implications of freedom, power, obedience and conformity in our society. 

See the trailer and film at www.thelotteryofbirth.com

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From The Lottery of Birth, Episode One in the Creative Freedom Series.

From The Lottery of Birth, Episode One in the Creative Freedom Series. 

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH

by Raoul Martinez (Co-Director of The Lottery of Birth)

It's a few days until the first film in the Creating Freedom series is released. In light of the recent revelations brought to the world by Edward Snowden it seems timely. Snowden's disclosures have raised important questions about freedom. The fact that the US government has been spying on its own citizens, tracking their movements online, listening to phone calls and reading their emails, forces us to ask ourselves what society we want to live in. The one size fits all justification for reducing the freedom of citizens is 'security'. 

There are a number of problems with this justification. First, what do we mean by security? Do we mean providing the ill, the ageing, the disabled with the security of universal healthcare? Do we mean secure employment, secure housing, a secure economy? What about environmental security, sustaining the conditions we all depend on to survive? No. That is not the security that government officials speak of. In fact, in every case the US government has significantly contributed to the erosion of these forms of security. The security they speak of is security against  'terrorists'. The inverted commas here are important, because who gets to decide who a terrorist is? The families of victims of Obama's drone strikes, 98% of whom are civilians according to a Columbia Law School study, no doubt regard Obama and the US government itself as partaking in terrorism.

People are told they can have freedom or safety, but this is a false dichotomy. Security depends on freedom. For citizens to be secure, they need civil liberties that protect them from the massive concentrations of state and corporate power. For citizens to be secure they need a well functioning democracy, and information is the oxygen of a democracy. Without it, the  governed cannot give their meaningful consent to those who govern, and our democracies suffocate. Those who value freedom and democracy are indebted to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and Daniel Ellsberg who empower us with a deeper understanding of the society we live in and the abuses of the powerful.

THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH opens theatrically in NYC Friday, June 21 - Thurs. June 27 at reRun Theater in Brooklyn.  (To buy tickets, visit:  http://reruntheater.com).  The film is also exclusively available online starting Friday, June 21st at www.mangu.tv.  

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Official Trailer for THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH, opening June 21st in NYC and online

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Howard Zinn appears in THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH, which opens this Friday, June 21st in NY and online at www.mangu.tv

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The Lottery of Birth Opens THIS Friday, JUNE 21st!

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