"To Prison for Pregnancy" (5 minutes)
Feticide laws are meant to protect pregnant women and their unborn fetuses against battery and assault while pregnant. Instead, these laws are being used to criminalize pregnant women and worse can often discourage expectant mothers from seeking prenatal care. This short film highlights the problems and unintended consequences of these laws which are harming women and their families. If you live in one of the 38 states that has feticide laws, tell your lawmakers to remove feticide and related laws off the books and out of women's lives.
"The US Needs Paid Family Leave For The Sake Of Its Future" (16 minutes)
Why is America one of the only countries in the world that offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In this incisive TED Talk presentation, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of new working motherhood in America is both hidden and horrible: millions of women, every year, are forced back to work within just weeks of giving birth. Her idea worth spreading: the time has come for us to recognize the economic, physical and psychological costs of our approach to working mothers and their babies, and to secure our economic future by providing paid leave to all working parents.
"Preventing Gun Violence – An International Perspective" (55.5 minutes)
On October 25, 2015, the Joint Annual Dinner of the Sacramento Chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the United Nations Association featured keynote speaker Rebecca Peters, the founding director of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Australia, Ms. Peters led a grass roots gun control campaign that led to prompt action by the Australian government to ban all assault weapons in their country. For her work on gun violence prevention, she received the Australian Human Rights Medal, the Australian equivalent of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
During her keynote address, Ms. Peters described how she and her Australian colleagues were able to get the nationwide ban on assault weapons passed. She noted that following the ban, over a million firearms were removed from circulation, overall rates of firearm related deaths and injuries, already much lower than in the United States, declined even further, and there hasn't been a single additional mass shooting.
Ms. Peters challenged Americans to take similar action to stop the epidemic of gun violence in our country.
"The Big Picture" (33.5 minutes)
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and MoveOn.org Civic Action teamed up to create this series of 12 short videos that focus on advancing bold, progressive policy solutions—such as expanding Social Security and making public higher education free.
