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About Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is a cultural critics and interviewer. He is the author of Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States and co-author of Made in Paradise: Hollywood’s Films of Hawaii and the South Seas; Pearl Harbor in the Movies; and The Hawaii Movie and Television Book.
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    Celebrating the 70th anniversary of ‘Salt of the Earth’

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 24, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    The Film was one of the most pro-union movies in American history.

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    It can and did happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlight on the Hollywood Blacklist’s 75th anniversary

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on April 18, 2023 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history.

  • Southern Girls

    Southern Girls: Theater Review

    Ed Rampell

    Would Florida’s Fascistic Governor Ban This Play and Burn the Script?

  • A demonstration to free the Hollywood Ten along with members of the Ten and their supporters. [Source: indiewire.com]

    75th Anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist takes on added significance with escalation of New Cold War

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 21, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    Let’s Hope History Does Not Repeat

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    Biden Administration wants kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 12, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine)  |

    New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.

  • No St. Patrick, Kucinich Is a Phony Liberal Leprechaun

    Ed Rampell

    Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s St. Patrick Day’s announcement he’d vote for the Democrats’ pending healthcare legislation exposes that this so-called “progressive” is no St. Patrick driving out the snakes of insurance companies, Big Pharma, etc., but in reality just another phony liberal leprechaun.  Kucinich had voted against the measure in November and remained a holdout because […]

  • Mau Mau, Marx, & Coca Cola: 18th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival

    Ed Rampell

    The 18th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival, which takes place yearly during Black History Month, is one of Los Angeles’ cultural jewels.  Arguably America’s top Black movie venue, PAFF is a leading U.S. showcase for independent, studio, student, foreign (especially African) political and progressive pictures.  Many movies have their U.S. debuts at this […]

  • The Price Is Right (On)

    Ed Rampell

    At a Paul Winter concert (I think it was) one summer in the 1980s I somehow found myself backstage at Carnegie Hall beside a very tall man.  I looked up — as it turned out to be, both literally and figuratively — and was shocked to see who stood next to me.  “God bless you, […]

  • Sex-Pol among Allies in the North Atlantic

    Ed Rampell

    Do you have an indelible memory of a theater experience?  One winter in the 1970s, while I was a film student at Manhattan’s Hunter College, I heard that Mother Courage, by that red cat Bertolt Brecht, was being performed downtown at Wooster Street.  So voila! next stop Greenwich Village, and I attended the Wooster Group‘s […]

  • Time for Progressives to Jump Democrats’ Sinking Ship

    Ed Rampell

    Republican Scott Brown’s defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts’ Senate race proves it’s time for real progressives, activists, and independents to dump and jump the Democratic Party’s sinking ship of state.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, expecting a different result.  Every electoral cycle people who consider […]

  • No Schlock, Sherlock: A Scandal in Tinseltown

    Ed Rampell

    What’s that deafening whirling sound?  Elementary, my dear reader: it’s author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in his grave, as his character Sherlock Holmes gets the Hollywood treatment.  There’s a crude expression — “No s**t, Sherlock” — but that’s precisely what director Guy Ritchie has wrought, complete with anti-Semitism.  Of the 222-ish Holmes productions since […]

  • Disaster Imperialism, Starring the Starving of the Earth: The End of Poverty?

    Ed Rampell

    The End of Poverty? is a kind of bookend to Capitalism: A Love Story: if Michael Moore’s movie examines how private enterprise operates at home, writer/director Philippe Diaz ‘s documentary explores what happens when that economic system is exported to the Third World.  As scathing exposes of exploitation these nonfiction films share much — ironic […]

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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