Van Jones
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy...
Publisher
Loudspeaker Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film examines Oakland's evolution through the eyes of social entrepreneurs determined that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as Silicon Valley spreads into the home of the second largest black community in California. Kalimah Priforce, whose first activism was a hunger strike at age eight, and Kimberly Bryant, a successful engineer turned founder of Black Girls Code, are organizing large-scale hackathons preparing youth to redesign...
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an attempt to build a 21st century progressive movement in the United States against the backdrop of the 2016 election. From the presidential campaign trail with Bernie Sanders to a local race in rural West Virginia, from a mass sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps to the struggle for racial justice in Los Angeles, it makes sense of this moment in American politics, probing widespread discontent, Donald Trump’s dramatic victory,...
Publisher
Huron Mountain Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"PLANET OF THE HUMANS" dares to say what no one will—that we are losing the battle to stop ecological meltdown by following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road—selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. In the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids: too little, too late. This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault...
