A Call to Action: The Freedom Budget of 1966
"It's the Economy, Stupid!" • 7m 30s
Directed by Jenny Alexander • Documentary • With Martin Luther King • 2023 • 7 minutes
“A Call to Action: The Freedom Budget of 1966” tells the story of a little-known grassroots push for guaranteed income during the civil rights movement.
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Miners Shot Down
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Family Business
Directed by Tom Cohen • Documentary • 1982 • 90 minutes
Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid 40s, he is an American entrepreneur struggling to make his business succeed.
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Marx Reloaded
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Today a new generation of philosophers, artists and political activists are returning to Marx's ideas in order to try to make sense of the crisis and to consider whether a world without or beyond capitalism is possible. Is the severity o...
