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Thu Feb 20, 2014, 03:34 PM

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Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution' [View all] Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 OP

I wonder which districts are Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #1

There's a moment in the movie of Catching Fire where Katniss glances out the train window winter is coming Feb 2014 #2

I agree, but PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #3

Those of us who are really tried like hell to re-elect him catbyte Feb 2014 #4

Also.. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #5

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and your generation voted in dubya. Twice! Iggo Feb 2014 #11

Uh, NO PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #12

You're merely rationalizing the sins of this generation at this point, holding it to a lesser standa LanternWaste Feb 2014 #56

That is true PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #57

Youth has always been the catalyst for change dreamnightwind Feb 2014 #71

I worked for Carter. hunter Feb 2014 #45

Don't Blame the Canadian. CBGLuthier Feb 2014 #6

It is not personally directed towards him PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #7

This site amazes me; notemason Feb 2014 #9

So you are saying PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #10

Apparently you are aware of how dubya was placed at the helm.. 2banon Feb 2014 #15

Exactly, and the corporate media spent a lot of air time... prairierose Feb 2014 #23

A whole lot more to the back story than what we were perceiving vis a vis the media. n/t 2banon Feb 2014 #24

Iran-Contra. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #90

You dumbshit, why don't you learn about what he did? Armstead Feb 2014 #34

Hey Buttlick. If you could fucking read, it was not a personal attack against Sutherland. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #37

Sorry about the gratutious insult. I should have been more tactful Armstead Feb 2014 #40

Thanks PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #41

Perhaps you are just ignorant of his activist history? /nt demwing Feb 2014 #61

I knew he was an activist PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #62

I'm sorry, but that's jus not fair. MY generation FOUGHT HARD against all of this, and continue to. 2banon Feb 2014 #14

And his generation ushered in a new eara Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2014 #16

He can't be blamed for the actions of his whole generation. nt pnwmom Feb 2014 #19

That is one helluva broad brush you're painting with. riqster Feb 2014 #20

will you stop blaming ME? Skittles Feb 2014 #26

That's a fairly broad and totally unfair generalizaton Armstead Feb 2014 #31

^^ A reply to all above PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #36

Here's the thing: NO one said that to you tkmorris Feb 2014 #46

Hmm. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #47

Yes I can tkmorris Feb 2014 #63

And here is what NONE of you seem to get PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #65

Not only did we participate, we are all complicit with the lack of justice in the years since power Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #77

Where were you when Occupy started nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #49

Occupy is great PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #50

In other words you were sitting at home nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #51

Be careful what you judge PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #53

I am not judging, at least not anymore than you are. nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #54

True PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #55

That's ok, my serious posts are done off site anymore nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #58

I know PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #59

^^^^^This^^^^^ Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #75

Just exactly who are you lashing out at here? Jackpine Radical Feb 2014 #78

Millions of us were against Reagan, free trade, media consolidation and the rest. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #89

Wow! Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #100

Erm...what kind of revolution? Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #8

In the book her sister and mother had fair skin and hair. So the fact that her skin was olive pnwmom Feb 2014 #21

I guess we'll never know what the author intended because, unlike Stephenie Meyer, she didn't Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #27

The director says the author was present at all the auditions and approved the choice of Lawrence. pnwmom Feb 2014 #28

I stand corrected. Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #30

X valerief Feb 2014 #13

Boy, that's it in a nutshell.. 2banon Feb 2014 #18

aggghhhhhh grasswire Feb 2014 #35

I-Phone age has all but nutered the youth of today. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #17

Hardly Scootaloo Feb 2014 #32

unemployment is less than 7% true or false ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #42

And there are people on DU who think middle class white kids with no shirts on ended the Vietnam war Scootaloo Feb 2014 #48

I'm saving this. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #66

I prefer to call it "perspective" Scootaloo Feb 2014 #83

We anti-war activists did NOT end the War in Viet Nam. It boggles my mind whenever I hear that meme 2banon Feb 2014 #97

John Lennon's Music was revolutionary 2banon Feb 2014 #96

Student debt has a lot more to do with it than Iphones nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #60

absolute it is more complex than I-phones,.... NM_Birder Feb 2014 #67

Gahs many of those kids WORK full time jobs nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #68

Who woulda thunk it ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #70

you said they were lazy. And did not work nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #72

No, I asked "How Many"... see how easy it is to not keep up ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #73

Read the blogs? kcr Feb 2014 #85

meh...blogs whatever, inter google blah blah...notice how NM_Birder Feb 2014 #103

Probably because it's irrelevant to your horseshit claims kcr Feb 2014 #109

specifically what "horseshit" claims. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #110

Now I see...YOU called them lazy LOL NM_Birder Feb 2014 #74

Enjoy your stay on DU nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #76

Predictable. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #80

LMAO noiretextatique Feb 2014 #82

no.. the honor is all mine.... NM_Birder Feb 2014 #104

The way to use phones in a revolution will come from Tunisia rather than Silicon Valley. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #101

Ironic Dopers_Greed Feb 2014 #22

That's what Hunger Games is about though. pamela Feb 2014 #25

"You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years." Scootaloo Feb 2014 #29

"Be sure to cash your checks first, Colonel Sanders." Enthusiast Feb 2014 #91

Ugh, there was really no side to pick in the Hunger Games. dilby Feb 2014 #33

What percent of "popular" revolutions are fascist revolutions? XemaSab Feb 2014 #69

Enough with the negative waves man! n/t hootinholler Feb 2014 #38

That ain't my fault, Oddball, Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #39

Woof woof! JoePhilly Feb 2014 #95

Robert Reich's comments on "Why There's No Outcry" LongTomH Feb 2014 #43

And Reich is very correct nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #52

I don't really get this comment. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2014 #79

Exactly. I don't think debt or money had anything to do with student led resistance in the past okaawhatever Feb 2014 #88

Exactly Puzzledtraveller Feb 2014 #105

The 2 foot-in-the-door issues: Living wage, debt. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #102

Love this guy! n/t Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2014 #44

HAHHA, people don't even vote in local elections, there isn't going to be a revolution JI7 Feb 2014 #64

"voting" 2banon Feb 2014 #98

You look at our society and you see a lot of the central themes of this story davidn3600 Feb 2014 #81

Coin for President! she'll be a total 180! MisterP Feb 2014 #84

That's how I feel about The Lego Movie. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #86

+1 jsr Feb 2014 #87

K&R woo me with science Feb 2014 #92

This message was self-deleted by its author clarice Feb 2014 #93

Donald Sutherland's private beach house. clarice Feb 2014 #94

Hey The Guardian, why did you put "starving Americans" in scare quotes? Matariki Feb 2014 #99

Hunger Games stirring up a revolution? Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #106

"The young generation can't stop taking pictures of themselves to do anything in that magnitude." PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #107

Yeah, because this is about me. Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #108