"Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection" (13 minutes)
We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. In this February 2016 TED Talk presentation, Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says. "I need each of you to tell every young woman you know to be comfortable with imperfection."
"Border, Inc." (12 minutes)
The same companies that profiteered from the wars in Iraq are profiteering from the militarization of our own border. Time and time again on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has 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. And Trump was not alone in his calls for ramping up "border security." Ben Carson called for using drones at the border. This is all 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. Should any of these new ideas of presidential candidates become reality, the jackpots for companies will soar even higher, as taxpayers see a larger portion of their checks going to this effort.
"OverCriminalized -- Alternatives to Incarceration" (22 minutes)
Homeless Hate Laws are spreading throughout the country. There are alternatives. OverCriminalized focuses on the people who find themselves being trafficked through this nation’s criminal justice system with little regard for their humanity and zero prospects for actual justice. They are victims of unwillingness to invest in solving major social problems, and the consequent handling off of that responsibility to the police, the courts, and the prisons. They are the mentally ill, the homeless, and the drug addicted. Sometimes they are all three.
"The Beauty of Human Skin in Every Color" (11.5 minutes)
Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this February 2016 TED Talk presentation, Dass describes the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.
"The Great Divide with Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich" (57.5 minutes)
Economist Joseph Stiglitz and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminisce about opposing “corporate welfare” during their days in the Clinton Administration and talk here about problematic trade deals, income inequality and Stiglitz’s book, “The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them.” Recorded at UC Berkeley on April 29, 2015.
