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John,
I wanted to send you a note to let you know about two full-length film screenings happening during Netroots Nation: Boycott and The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
Read on for more info!
 Boycott
Screening and Q&A with the filmmakers
Friday, August 19 at noon
When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 33 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to penalize individuals and companies that choose to boycott Israel due to its human rights record. A legal thriller with “accidental plaintiffs” at the center of the story, Boycott is a bracing look at the far-reaching implications of anti-boycott legislation and an inspiring tale of everyday Americans standing up to protect our rights in an age of shifting politics and threats to freedom of speech.
 The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Screening and Q&A with the filmmakers
Saturday, August 20 at 12:30pm
In this feature-length, personal essay documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney grapples with America’s profound inequality crisis. The story begins in 2018, after Abigail encounters workers at the company that bears her name struggling to put food on the table. Could she, a descendent, with no role in the multinational conglomerate, use her famous last name to help pressure Disney and other American corporations to treat low-wage workers more humanely? Believing her conservative grandfather, Roy Disney, (Walt’s brother and company co-founder) would never have tolerated employee hunger at “The Happiest Place On Earth”, Abigail reexamines the story of modern American capitalism from the middle of the last century, when wealth was shared more equitably, to today, when CEO’s earn upwards of 800 times more than their average employees. What happened? What Abigail learns—about racism, corporate power, and the American Dream—is eye-opening, unexpected, and inspiring in that it begins to imagine a path to a fairer future for everyone.
Plus, on Friday morning at 9:30am, get a sneak peek of the upcoming Bootstraps docuseries, which follows 11 American households from different regions and walks of life as they participate in a groundbreaking universal basic income experiment. Each household received $1,000/adult/month and $333/child/month for 2.5 years with no strings attached. Would you like to know what they did with it? Come for a sneak peek and a chat with the creators.
There's so much great content and so many fun activities on the agenda for Netroots Nation. Don’t have your ticket yet? Click here to register now.
See you there!
Mary Rickles
Netroots Nation
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