"Peak Moment" (20.5 minutes)
After work Michelle Colussi's husband sits on the front steps, attracting visitors young and old. This bit of neighborliness encourages relationships which come in handy -- like bailing out one another's houses when the nearby creek flooded. Co-founder of Transition Victoria (BC), Michelle organized her neighbors to join in a five-week "Transition Street" initiative to discuss and improve household practices around conserving water, growing food, and reducing waste, energy and transport. She says we need projects at the street level on up to regional levels. We also need to shift values from the "I'll take care of me" ethic to valuing cooperation and collaboration.
"Street Corner Sweatshops...How the Car Wash Industry Abuses Workers" (6 minutes)
The car wash industry in Los Angeles consisted of over 10,000 workers - mostly Latino - who report widespread abuses by management -including wage theft, denial of water, and sexual assault. In response, they formed the very first Bonus Carwasheros Union!
"From Danger to Dignity" (55 minutes)
After more than a century of back-alley tragedies, a national movement to decriminalize abortion took root. FROM DANGER to DIGNITY combines rare archival footage with present-day interviews to weave together two parallel stories: the evolution of underground networks to help women find safe abortions outside the law and the intensive efforts of activists and legislators who broke the silence and changed the laws.
"The Children of Ibdaa - To Create Something Out of Nothing" (29.5 minutes)
The lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children’s dance troupe from a West Bank refugee camp. They use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of their people.
