~See The Throwaways.. throwawaysmovie/ throwawaysmovie/#trailer https://facebook/throwawaysmovie #TheStruggleContinues, the movement lives #BlackLivesMatter THE THROWAWAYS courageously explores the most pressing racial justice issue of our time: the mass incarceration and profiling of poor people of color. ~Michelle Alexander author, The New Jim Crow. THE THROWAWAYS is a feature length documentary that tells the story of homeless filmmaker and activist Ira McKinley, documenting his quest to shed light on the struggle of people living on the margins of society. McKinley aims to pull the curtain back for viewers and expose how the current economic crisis is having a devastating effect on those who have become throwaways, invisible to most, discarded by a system that has failed them. THE THROWAWAYS traces McKinleys past from his upbringing in Ithaca, NY, where at the age of fourteen his father was shot by police, to a prison cell in Staten Island during the September 11th attacks. THE THROWAWAYS broadens the scope of the issues and the potential solutions by including the voices of some of Americas most visionary thinkers as they share their thoughts with McKinley on the re-imagining of inner city America. Conversations with Michelle Alexander, Van Jones, and Marjora Carter confront the realities of life in our most distressed urban neighborhoods, a reality most would rather turn away from. Ultimately THE THROWAWAYS aims to empower those who have been rendered invisible, to amplify the stories of those living on the fringes of a society that has rejected and forgotten them. It is a story of survival, of a person who resists against being discarded and refuses to be thrown away.
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