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[Piperion Giles]

I sense that our collective human consciousness is evolving with new neural pathways that have the power to overcome the traumas of the past, and to give us the resilience and hope for the now and future. I also am perplexed why systemic changes are not happening as fast as they could, given the honorable cast of activists in this film. Perhaps it just takes time for more grass to take root in order for those blades of discontent and action to emerge in this movement. Still, I lament.

JELANI COBB: One of the things that people have to bear in mind is that when we think about slavery, it was an economic system and the demise of slavery at the end of the civil war left the southern economy in tatters. So this presented a big question. There are 4 million people who were formerly property, and they were formerly an integral part of the economic production system in the south. And now those people are free. And so what do you do with these people? How do you rebuild your economy? The 13th Amendment loophole was immediately exploited.

ALEXANDER: Civil rights activists began to be portrayed in the media and among many politicians as criminals, people who were deliberately violating the law, segregation laws that existed in the South.

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.: I think that one of the most brilliant tactics of the civil rights movement was this transformation of the notion of criminality. Because for the first time, being arrested was a noble thing. Being arrested by white people was your worst nightmare. Still is, for many African Americans. So what did they do? They voluntarily defined a movement around getting arrested. They turned it on its head.

JOHN HAGEN: Crime was increasing. And the baby-boom generation that had emerged immediately after WWII, now they were adults. So, just through sheer demographic change we had an increase in the amount of crime.

ALEXANDER: And [it] became very easy for politicians then to say that the Civil Rights movement itself was contributing to rising crime rates, and that if we were to give the negroes their freedom, then we would be repaid as a nation with crime.

PAT NOLAN: All of a sudden a scythe went through our black communities, literally cutting off men from their families, literally huge chunks just disappearing into our prisons, and for really long times.

MUHAMMAD: What Reagan ultimately does is takes the problem of economic inequality, of hyper-segregation in American cities, and the problem of drug abuse, and criminalizes all of that in the form of the war on drugs.

NEWT GINGRICH: We absolutely should have treated crack and cocaine as exactly the same thing. I think it was an enormous burden on the black community, but it also fundamentally violated a sense of core fairness.

GROVER NORQUIST: When crack cocaine hit in the early 80s, there are a lot of mayors and so on that thought this was a real threat and they wanted to crack down on it, and Rengel was one of the guys pushing for stronger sentencing.

ALEXANDER: You see a rhetorical war that was announced as part of a political strategy by Richard Nixon which morphed into a literal war by Ronald Reagan, turning in to something that began to feel nearly genocidal in many poorer communities of color.

MALKIA CYRIL: Black people, black men, and black people in general are over represented in news as criminals. When I say over represented, that means that they are shown as criminals more times than is accurate, that they are actually criminals, based on FBI statistics.

COBB: It went to a kind of primitive fear, a primitive American fear because Willie Horton was metaphorically the black male rapist that had been a staple of the white imagination since the time just after slavery.

COBB: Looking at the way Democrats were defeated in 1988, defeated in 1984, defeated in 1980, there comes to be a sentiment among the Democrats that they have to adopt a position that is much more centrist.

DAVIS: That omnibus crime bill was responsible for a massive expansion of the prison system. And beyond that, it provided all kinds of money and perverse incentives for law enforcement to do a lot of the things that now a days we consider to be abusive.

CRAIG DEROCHE: What President Clinton did in 1994 is actually far more harmful than his predecessors because he actually built that infrastructure that we see today, the militarization all the way down to small rural police departments that have SWAT teams.

CORY BOOKER: We are a nation that professes freedom, and yet we have this mass incarceration, this hyper-incarceration that is trolling into it, grinding into it our most vulnerable citizenry and is overwhelmingly biased toward people of color.

GATES: J. Edgar Hoover said, these Panthers represent the greatest threat to American Democracy at the time. The Panthers never were that big. No one in their right mind would ever believe that the Black Panthers were going to bring down the greatest military force in the history of the world. The whole movement was criminalized and destroyed systematically by the government.

[_]: We know the history of folks who have done these kinds of standing up to the systems, and we know how the system has murdered them, assassinated them, exiled them, excluded them, or found ways to discredit them.

[_]: Other corporations followed suit and abandoned ALEC, but many corporations are still members, including Koch Industries, State Farm Insurance, Pharma; ALEC has been supported by the tobacco industry, as well as AT&T and Verizon. And for nearly two decades, one of those corporations was Corrections Corporation of America.

[_]: CCA directly benefited, directly profited from its investment in ALEC, and the American people, in many ways, were harmed by these policies, due the mass incarceration, particularly people of color.

[_]: Another bill that ALEC innovated was SB1070. CCA was on the ALEC task force that pushed that law, that gave police the right to stop anyone they thought looked like an immigrant. This law filled immigration detention facilities, and it directly benefited an ALEC member, CCA.

[_]: And so ALEC continues to be a body that, while it may have some really strong rhetoric on why it supports crime reform, now suddenly, sort of out of the blue, it actually has real financial interests.

KALIEF BROWDER: After a while, I just kept hearing the same things from the whole three years, and I just learned to cope with being in there. That was rough. I already knew, after a while, I just gave up hope.

STEVENSON: In March of 2015, we had tens of thousands of people come to Selma to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And very few of those people realized that nearly 30% of the black male population of Alabama today has permanently lost their right to vote, as a result of a criminal conviction.

[_]: If you do something wrong, you should pay it back, and then move forward with your life. But yet in America, there is actually zero closure. We actually tell American citizens when they pay back their debt to society, their citizenship will still be denied from them.

COBB: If we were to look at the largest scale riots that we know of in recent history, from Rodney King to the Detroit riot in 1967, the Newark riot in 1967, Harlem riot in 1964, Watts in 1965, every single one of those riots was a result of police brutality. That is the common thread.

[_]: The murder of Emmett Till was really thought of as being one of the primary catalysts for the Civil Rights movement. The willingness of his mother to have an open casket funeral. Hundreds and hundreds of black folks file past, and see this young boy who had been killed by a white supremacist in the south. To publish those photographs in black publications so the entire black world, like our Facebook, or our Twitter now, right, so that the whole black world could see what happened.

COBB: In the 1950s Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement used television in this way. Look, this is what segregation looks like. These are dogs attacking children, these are people being firehosed. Searching for the medium of technology that will confirm your experience, such that your basic humanity can be recognized.

[_]: We had been consistently being murdered as the result of police aggression. They generally would excuse it by calling us criminals. When they were killing Oscar Grant. When they got to Eric Garner.

This was great, tears of sorrow, tears of joy, any eye opener. My 11 year old had to do a paper on the 13th, and she was very excited to read her paper. Two week later my teacher had us do a paper on the 13th. Thanks

Just so you know, I sought out a specialty Printer to make your script look and feel just like mine from 1979. The Printers, who became friends of mine, struggled during the Pandemic & unfortunately with specialty paper prices skyrocketing & all their costs going up.. well, they decided to retire. I'm so very thankful they did such an incredible job for us reproducing my F13 script with such care & bloody brilliance.

This edition includes my personal notes from those long days and gruesome nights filming at Camp Blood in 1979 and an additional page explaining some of the details of how the final scenes were added after I received my original FRIDAY 13 script.

Even though 13th is a documentary, we are going to be discussing it in a way that is valuable for all writers. Whether you are a screenwriter, a documentarian, a miniseries writer, a TV writer, a comedy writer, even if you are a poet or a playwright or a musician, we are going to be talking about it in a way that is valuable for you.

Your beliefs shape the way that your audience views the truth about themselves and others. Your writing can be used to build empathy or to undermine empathy. Your writing can be used to lead toward hope or to push towards despair.

Your risk is getting dogmatic and losing the transformative power of your story. Your risk is trying to take other people on a journey without taking yourself on a journey. Your risk is asking people to believe a certain way, without asking yourself the same profound question.

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