Dems Day Two: Coup 53

Here is Just Above Sunsets take on Day Two of the Democratic Convention, August 18.

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This afternoon I chose to spend two hours watching on-line Coup 53, a riveting and eye-opening documentary about the Coup that toppled Mossadegh and installed the Shah of Iran in August 19, 1953.  It is an incredible film, extraordinarily pertinent at this time in history.

The film begins a two week run on line on August 21.  You can access details at Minneapolis St Paul Film Festival website. “While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch discover never seen before archive material hidden for decades.”

At the minimum, you will learn about the dark side of international relationships and how complicit our own society is in the dark side of those relationships.

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Tonight (Day Three) I watched the speeches of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, and most of the others.  A very impressive evening.  The candidates for President and Vice-President have now been officially nominated.  Tomorrow night will be Joe Biden’s acceptance.

After watching, I checked my e-mails, and found an interesting column by Heather Cox on the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage becoming the law of the land.  You can read her column here.