Saturday, May 1, 2010

May 1, 2010 - Commune

Chose a documentary today that I found on Netflix Instant Play.

(71) Commune 2005: This is terrific documentary about the Black Bear Ranch commune in Northern California, started in 1968 by Elsa and Richard Marley. It's so awesome they have been able to preserve the film footage and photographs from back then. Their motto was "Free Land for Free People", and to this day the commune continues on. It has been preserved in perpetuity by the Black Bear Ranch Land Trust, which means it can never be torn down, or sub-divided, or sold, or razed, or anything else. If you're at all interested in what motivates some people to live off the grid and be free, this is a very poignant look at all that.

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