Fellow Americans:
Here’s an 8-minute preview of a documentary I began shooting in Chicago back in 1968, featuring a remarkable grass roots organizer named Robert E. Lee III. Over the last four decades I’ve shot some 60 hours of video as Bobby created a powerful political dynasty in Houston’s legendary 5th Ward on a budget of nickels and dimes.
I’m now at work on the final cut because it couldn’t be more timely. In the current political mess we’re overwhelmed by billionaires and corporations who seem determined to destroy the middle class so the US can effectively compete with China by paying our workers similar slave wages.
This is a vivid lesson in how we can fight back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thwpOf_Qjc
Thanks for taking a look…
Mike Gray
Los Angeles
323-650-7212
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Author of Drug Crazy and The China Syndrome, Mike Gray grew up in Indiana and graduated from Purdue University with a degree in engineering. In 1962, he formed his own film company in Chicago, which produced the award winning documentaries American Revolution and The Murder of Fred Hampton. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has been writing, directing, and producing feature films and series of television. Mr. Gray is also a noted speaker on the drug war, has appeared on several major news programs such as CNN and Nightline to discuss the drug war, and writes for Rolling Stone Magazine about drug issues. Gray and publisher Robert Field are chair and co-chair respectively of Common Sense for Drug Policy.
