Advocacy & Activism

Christchurch earthquake reconstruction. Bicycling advocate. Difficulties with roundabouts.

"We're Going to Change Everything" (4.5 minutes)

This music video, produced in Sacramento, highlights messages about some of the important issues our country is dealing with today. Short segments of Bernie Sanders’ speeches are incorporated into the song.

"Bernie Sanders" (63.5 minutes)

"Peak Moment" (28 minutes)

"I'm not a millionaire but I feel like one," declares Gabriel Pliska. This Vancouver, B.C. urban farmer gives a tour of a residential front yard garden, including planted boxes in the boulevard strip beside the curb.

"My Road Trip through the Whitest Towns in America" (13 minutes)

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and moved in. In this TED Talk, he shares what he learned as a black man in Whitopia.

"An Evening with Senator Marie Chappelle-Nadal" (1 hour, 43 minutes)

"When Abortion Was Illegal" (28 minutes)

This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act.

"Dakota 38" (78 minutes)

"How Martin Luther King's Dream Became A Nightmare" (10 minutes)

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" 50 years ago, he had no idea Jim Crow would be replaced with another oppressive system: mass incarceration and the drug war. Nixon started the drug war just 8 years after King's "I have a Dream" speech. Both Reagan and Clinton continued it.

"The Secret US Prisons You've Never Heard of Before" (15 minutes)

Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated -- even preventing them from hugging their children.

"Peak Moment" (28 minutes)

"Preventing Gun Violence – An International Perspective" (55.5 minutes)