Film Screening of Crossing the American Crisis: From Collapse to Action
Saturday, February 26 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Vermont Workers’ Center – 294 N Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401
Free and Open to the Public, Parking Available
Join us at the Vermont Workers’ Center to see the debut screening of Crossing the American Crisis: From Collapse to Action. From filmmakers, Michael Fox and Sílvia Leindecker, Crossing the Crisis explores the recent financial meltdown and current economic crisis from the perspective of American workers. The film features the Vermont Workers’ Center and other grassroots organizations. Michael Fox will be at the VWC to present his film.
Sponsored by the Vermont Workers’ Center and TowardFreedom.com.
For more information on the documentary: http://www.crossingthecrises.com/
Crossing the American Crisis: From Collapse to Action
From the makers of Beyond Elections, this new feature-length documentary takes us across the country amidst the economic collapse, to the grassroots solutions in the hands of the people.
Summary:
On September 15, 2008, the United States fell into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The same day, we set out on a trip around the country to ask the “American” people what they had to say about it. In 2010, we went back to see how things had changed. The financial forecasters say the recession is over, but the reality is otherwise.
Their stories reveal desperation, indignation, hope, dreams and a disastrous economic breakdown; chaos generated by a system of inequality. But the financial meltdown is just one of several human rights crises now shaking the United States—in housing, education, health care, etc. The solutions to “Crossing the American Crises” are in the hands of the people.
Featuring the Vermont Worker’s Center; LA’s Bus Rider’s Union; Santa Fe’s local business Alliance; Oakland’s Green Jobs Now; Baltimore’s United Workers; and “American” workers, truck drivers, farmers, homeless, ex-felons, minorities, natural disaster survivors, indigenous, immigrants, and residents from coast to coast—covering nearly 40 states across the nation.
Trailer: