"The Story of Cap & Trade" (10 minutes)
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you've heard about Cap & Trade, but aren't sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the movie for you.
"The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" (1 hour, 45 minutes)
This feature film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
"Catastrophic Pentagon Cuts? Not Really...." (2 minutes)
A short video that illustrates the fact that after a $1 trillion cut over the next 10 years, the end of two wars, and accounting for inflation, we’d still spend more on the Pentagon than we did during most of Vietnam and the Cold War, and much more than we spend on education.
