A Place to Stand: Exploring Consciousness and Community

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Paulist Communications

Complete Record: The theme is clarifying the relationship between personal commitment and social responsibility. Three skits explore the differences between personal and social values - the conflict between an individual’s conscience and society’s need for law and order. Poses the questions: How will values change as your roles and responsibilities change? Can you justify violence? ^^ A bunch of businessmen in suits in a room. Some of them get into an argument. One guy gets into an argument with two older guys that look like the bosses (one black one white). A policeman sitting in a chair talking. A black man with a bandage around his head (his head’s been injured). A priest and some others in a house gathering papers and putting them in a bag. Priest interviews with some guy. Priest and others holding the bag outside... they set the bag on fire.