By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia -- A new documentary on the 2008 Republican National Convention, Better This World, screens at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival on Sunday and next Wednesday, and on PBS POV nationwide on Sept. 6th. Directed by Kelly Duane and Katie Galloway, the film premiered in March at SXSW in Austin, TX, earned stellar reviews from industry critics like Variety, and just days ago, Documentary Jury Prize at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival.

Better This World exposes one of the most sinister & depressing narrative threads of the RNC, the elaborate federal sting operation staged from March-September 2008 upon two young activists from Texas, David McKay and Bradley Crowder, who wanted to participate in the Twin Cities protests, guided the whole way by the older famous activist and paid FBI operative Brandon Darby.

It's relieving to see these disturbing events and the independent media material reaching a national audience. [See TCIMC's previous Texas Two coverage] Twin Cities Indymedia, Glassbead Collective and other RNC videographers contributed footage -- and Better This World expands our view of events first shown in the Indymedia/Glassbead RNC documentary Terrorizing Dissent. PGH-IMCer Nigel Parry's RNC08Report.org helped provide substantive research for the film.

"Better This World" screens at St. Anthony Main Theatre Sun April 24th, 4:30pm, Weds April 27 9:30pm. Nationwide on PBS POV Sept. 6.
Also: Fantastic & funny Frank López film "End:Civ" screens 4/30 @ 7pm, Mayday Weekend at MayDay Bookstore in Cedar-Riverside (limited seating) and June 6 @ 7pm Walker Church, special Q&A with López & Waziyatawin! Below the fold: Untold details of the Texas Two case.

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/lisa-fithian-fbi-informant-brando...

Sexism, egos, and lies:
Sometimes you wake up and it is not different

By Lisa Fithian / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2010

from The Rag Blog: http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/james-retherford-brandon-darby-te...

Texas man sentenced to 2 years in RNC Molotov cocktail case