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Americans Drawing a Line in the Sand on June 26

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By Mark Anderson

 
There is a new film project out there that is intended to raise the level of awareness about combating tyranny in America. It is being done across the nation, in a concerted, grass-roots fashion, with activists sponsoring movie-watching parties to help educate people and spread the word.

“Americans are drawing a line in the sand by gearing up to host simultaneous screenings of the new film Don’t Tread on Me: Rise of the Republic on Saturday, June 26,” said Angie Ress of the Illinois-based Restore the Republic organization.

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“Participants who register their screening receive a signed release from the filmmakers and a high-resolution movie poster [they can] download for printing,” she said. They can hang the poster in the location they choose to show the film as part of the nationwide event.

Registration for the national grass-roots screening day has already begun. To do so online, and to get more information, click here.

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Americans across the country are planning watch parties for the soon-to-be-released movie 'Don't Tread on Me.'

The filmmakers are Gary Franchi and William Lewis. Franchi is editor of Republic magazine, is executive director of Restore the Republic, and is executive producer and host of RealityReport.tv, an internet news broadcast produced like a television broadcast but oriented toward exposing the real news behind the news, getting to the bottom of the forces that control America.

Lewis has produced or helped produce a number of films, including Camp FEMA and Washington, You’re Fired.

The filmmakers are asking citizens across the country to hold screenings of their latest film in their home, at their local public library or at a local cinema if available. Otherwise they can travel to the nearest location where others are screening the film. As of May 24, Franchi told AFP that 93 screenings had been planned, 38 of which were public, mainly in theaters and libraries. He said the list was growing.

Franchi, the new film’s producer, “intends to send shockwaves through the American consciousness with this one-day simultaneous screening to educate and activate Americans on one of the key solutions to restoring our constitutional republic,” Ms. Ress said, adding, “William Lewis, director of the film, advocates strongly for the 10th Amendment as that solution along with clarifying the real meaning of the 2nd Amendment.”

The 10th Amendment to the Constitution essentially says the central government should only exercise those limited powers expressly assigned to it by the Constitution and that all other functions and duties are automatically reserved to the states and the people. The 2nd Amendment says the government shall not infringe upon the birthright of Americans to defend

themselves from any and all aggressors, including government tyranny, with firearms.

“Screener packs” have been made available for organizers. These include either six or 11 official DVDs of Don’t Tread on Me: Rise of the Republic at a special wholesale price so organizers anywhere “can resell them at their venue of choice to raise money for their efforts,” Ress added.

Alongside the June 26 screenings, Franchi and Lewis ask those who purchase the film to make copies and distribute the DVD “in a viral hand-to-hand campaign.”

“During the years leading up to the revolutionary war, patriots used handbills printed on hemp to spread the word; today we use sophisticated DVD duplication software,” Franchi was quoted as saying.

When contacted by AFP, he added that he is “following in the footsteps” of Restore the Republic founder, the late Aaron Russo.

 AFP interviewed Russo in September 2006 not long before his untimely death. The meeting was during a private screening in Chicago of his noted film America: From Freedom to Fascism.

Many observers feel that, with that film, Russo lit a fire in the sometimes languishing freedom movement.

Franchi told AFP that he sees this latest film as a follow-up to what Russo started in order to perpetuate a series of informative films that Russo would have continued had he survived his illness.

Russo was perhaps best known for his big-screen movies Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd; and The Rose, starring Bette Midler.

To order copies of the new film Don’t Tread on Me by mail, send your order to William Lewis, P.O. Box 30576, Columbia, Mo. 65205-0576. The cost is $19.95 plus $4.50 for shipping. Each additional CD in the same order costs 50 cents to cover shipping. Make checks and money orders payable to William Lewis. Shipping costs to Canada are $6.50 for the first CD and 60 cents for each additional one per shipment.

Mark Anderson is a longtime newsman now working as the deputy editor for AMERICAN FREE PRESS. Together he and his wife Angie provide many photographs of the events they cover for AFP. Mark welcomes your comments and inputs as well as story leads. Email him at at [email protected].

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