Apparently there’s a new movie in production called Attica! Attica! Attica! So 5 years from now, everyone’s going to think I got the name from this movie, no matter how accurate or inaccurate it is. I would hope that, when naming your film after a chant that is intended to expose abuse of state power, you would have a film that’s sympathetic to those whom the state does not serve. The article I linked, however, has no problem playing fast and loose with the facts. The reporter states of Cell Block Z, “…where the riot that killed 39 people, mostly guards, began…” Let’s get these facts straight. 1 guard was killed in the riot itself. 9 guards were killed by state bullets when the state retook the prison and shot bullets indiscriminately into a yard filled with tear gas. Oh yeah, 28 inmates were killed at that point, too. The state only provided ambulances for injured guards, allowing several inmates to bleed to death. The state bulldozed all the evidence of the event. The state blamed the deaths of the guards on the inmates, fabricating the claim that the guards’ throats were slit. I named my band after this event because it is the essential example of the state’s inability to craft a humane resolution to a human crisis. Now you tell me, what part of “the riot that killed 39 people, mostly guards” is accurate? This is the essence of either lazy or intentionally skewed reporting, which appears in nearly every mainstream article. The facts are out there, but who’s calling the reporters out when they don’t even try to get them right?