{"product_id":"charles-light-far-out-life-on-after-the-commune","title":"Charles Light - Far Out: Life On \u0026 After The Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar Out tells the story of two rural New England communal farms founded in 1968 by a group of radical journalists from New York City.\u003cbr\u003eFar Out: Life On \u0026amp; After the Commune tells the story of two rural New England communal farms.\u003cbr\u003eThe film traces 50 years in the lives of a group of New England writers, activists and artists.\u003cbr\u003eThe film begins in the summer of 1968, in the middle of a left-wing faction fight, when a group of radical journalists from Liberation News Service (LNS) leave New York City for the country.\u003cbr\u003eThe journalists founded two communes in Guilford, Vermont and Montague, Massachusetts, becoming pioneers in the back-to-the-land and organic farming movement.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1973 when the local utility proposed a giant twin nuclear plant four miles from the Montague Farm, Sam Lovejoy toppled a 500-foot weather tower.\u003cbr\u003eFollowing his acquittal the group became leaders in the burgeoning \"No Nukes\" movement fighting against the plants across the country from Seabrook to Diablo Canyon.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1979, they teamed up with Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and other committed rock stars to help produce the sold-out Muse concerts as well as a 250,000-person rally in New York City.\u003cbr\u003eWith two filmmakers in their midst they also produced some critically acclaimed documentaries, and Far Out contains footage from the very beginning of the communes right up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WIENERWORLD","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":53304964841799,"sku":"TRI-70277","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/e8af56eb87058bc8746393afe05f6588.jpg?v=1770673093","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/charles-light-far-out-life-on-after-the-commune","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}