Community Currency - 04/14/11

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Heist - The Movie

Join Donald Goldmacher and Frances Causey, the producers of a new movie, Heist - Who Ripped Off Our Economy and How to Make It Right which is still under construction, they are working on the final edits now, to discuss the issues that are threatening the bulk of Americans and humanity at this time.

Their film tells the story of how corporations and their political allies in Congress, orchestrated the greatest theft in history -- the robbery of Americans' prosperity, savings, and retirement security. Heist exposes how free-market extremists steadily dismantled the regulatory protections that the New Deal had built to prevent a repeat of the 1929 Wall Street crash.

The film is a labor of love that evolved organically and has the potential to be a major organizing tool in challenging the rich and powerful's blatant attack upon the vast majority of people. While the main focus is the United States, this story is a global story, repeated in country after country where political power is bought, corrupted and bent to serve corporate interests, regardless of the human and environmental costs. 

To simply survive, people are organizing and challenging the attacks upon their livelihoods, their savings, their homes, their hopes for the future.

Donald Goldmacher is a psychiatrist and filmmaker. His films include: Do No Harm, an expose of the pharmaceutical industry.Ruthie and Connie; Every Room in the House an award looking look at domestic partners, and Helping Your Baby Sleep Through the Night. He also served as director of Planning for the California Department of Health, and was the director of Mental Health, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse Services of Contra Costa County, CA.

Frances Causey began a career in broadcasting and film in 1987 as an entry-level video journalist in Atlanta for Cable News Network (CNN). She became Senior National Assignment Editor and eventually a producer in the New York bureau. She covered the most important stories of the late eighties and nineties and was a senior member of a team honored with News and Documentary Emmys for coverage of both the Olympic Park and Oklahoma City bombings in 1995 and 1996.

Hear how you can get involved, organize, support the grassroots efforts to reclaim control over our governments, the workplace, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the lives we lead.