"The Laura Flanders Show" (25 minutes)
Capitalism looks different to those who were once commodities, and that has implications for how we build a future not based in domination.
In this conversation, Laura talks with Farah Tanis, executive director of Black
Women's Blueprint and economist Professor Richard Wolff about late
capitalism, early democracy, the crisis that gave rise to Donald Trump’s election
and what might come next, if we take seriously the task of erasing race, gender
and other disparities. Solidarity economy models exist across all cultures,
times and traditions, points out Tanis, and those models had to be “unlearned”
says Wolff. Can we learn anew, together?
Tanis and the Black Women's Blueprint recently hosted the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Black women and sexual assault in the U.S. Dr. Richard Wolff is a economist, professor, and the founder of Democracy at Work. His new
book, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens, is out now.
"The World Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons" (15 minutes)
Today nine nations collectively control more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, each
hundreds of times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We don't need more nuclear weapons; we need a new generation to face the
unfinished challenge of nuclear disarmament started decades ago. Nuclear
reformer Erika Gregory calls on today's rising leaders — those born in a time
without Cold War fears and duck and cover training — to pursue an ambitious
goal: ridding the world of nuclear weapons by 2045.
"Breaking Down Bail -- Debunking Common Bail Myths" (3.5 minutes)
Few people know what bail really is, let alone how it all works. This short video
explains it all.
"Grounds for Resistance" (58.5 minutes)
This documentary film is about Coffee Strong, a coffee shop located outside the
gates of the U.S. Army base Fort Lewis in Washington: its importance for its
most active members, active duty soldiers and their families, veterans of
recent and past conflicts, and regional and national political movements. At
the center of the film are the men and women whose experiences in the military
and war compel them to commit themselves to help others who are serving or have
served in the past. Each individual featured in the film exists within a
nuanced tangle of conflicting emotions tied to pride, dedication to service,
friendship, anger, disillusionment, sadness, and guilt. The film examines each
one’s stories from their decisions to join the military, their experiences of
war, and their motivations for devoting themselves to Coffee Strong. It
explores how their relationships with one another and their activist efforts to
make a more peaceful and just world help them cope with their own experiences.
"Border, Inc." (12 minutes)
The same companies that profiteered from the wars in Iraq are profiteering from
the militarization of our own border. Donald Trump called for building "the
great wall of Trump" on the U.S./Mexico border. This would require the construction
of almost 2,000 miles of wall in hostile desert terrain, to block out a country
that we are not at war with -- and who is our third largest trading partner in
the world.
In this new short documentary, Brave New Films exposes how the last three decades
of immigration politics in this country have created a massive payday for
military contractors and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in this business
operation fueled by xenophobia and greed. The jackpots for companies will soar
even higher, as taxpayers see a larger portion of their checks going to this
effort.