In WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer. This documentary brings to life a forgotten history of progressive struggles for justice and change in this country over the last half century. It communicates that the world we inherit is better because someone struggled for justice, and that those changes will survive only if we continue to fight. It is a film that needs to be seen. I recently showed it in my Introduction to Victimology class to provide examples of the unspoken dynamics of power and control that exist in our culture and underly crimes against humanity. Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kuntsler, William's daughters, are trying to raise the profile of the film, so they can have a shot at top honors, which would help William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe reach millions. If you'd like to support them, you can make a tax-deductible donation at the Fractured Atlas website. You can see a clip from the movie above or on You Tube. This clip highlights Kunstler's powerful speech on the "Terrible Myth" on law and legality. Please share this link with your friends and colleagues and help spread the word about this important film. You can find rental copies at Netflix. Here is the text of the Terrible Myth speech: And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal - and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times. And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that better men than the world has known and more of them, have gone to their deaths through a legal system than through all the illegalities in the history of man. Six million people in Europe during the Third Reich? Legal. Sacco Vanzetti? Quite legal. The Haymarket defendants? Legal. The hundreds of rape trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death? All legal. Jesus? Legal. Socrates? Legal. And that is the kaleidoscopic nature of what we live through here and in other places. Because all tyrants learn that it is far better to do this thing through some semblance of legality than to do it without that pretense.

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