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DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 5:30 for potluck refreshments, networking, and social hour;  
 followed by the film at 7:00 pm, followed by a program and discussions 
 after the film.\n\nFIXING THE FUTURE\nby David Brancaccio\nPresented by Buy 
 Local First\n– appearing in person\n \nAlexis De Tocqueville marveled at 
 a 19th century American landscape full of experiments in democracy.  It 
 turns out, the 21st century American landscape is dotted with experiments 
 in the economy of the future, if you know where to look.  These experiments 
 in bending the economy toward a more sustainable, more widespread 
 prosperity are happening on Main Street, not on Wall Street.  But do these 
 projects have the capacity to produce jobs and greater well-being at a time 
 the traditional financial system remains in a perilous state? What happens 
 when you ask people to be the solution to an economic crisis that seems 
 largely out of their hands?\n\nDavid Brancaccio has created this film 
 around his Alexis de Tocqueville-style meandering journey across America, 
 during which time he films a half dozen businesses and their operators who 
 have made remarkable and creative responses to the economic downturn.  
 Rather than letting the Great Recession take them down, these business 
 people have used it as an opportunity to build a new kind of 
 community-based business which Brancaccio thinks may well be the face of a 
 nascent “new American economy.”  He begins in Bellingham, Washington, 
 where he follows the development of Sustainable Connections, one of the 
 most powerful Buy Local First movements in the country.  He swings over to 
 North Dakota to interview an agriculture-focused community bank.  Next stop 
 is a cooperatively owned laundry in Detroit.  There are several additional 
 briefer stops, but he closes the film at The Hour Bank in Portland, Maine.  
 In every sequence, the film focuses on how the new American economy needs 
 to be and will be built around “vibrant local living economies” that 
 understand the critical importance of community and of keeping commerce as 
 local as possible.\n\nThere will be time for networking both before and 
 after the film.  After the screening, people from Buy Local First will 
 encourage everyone to get involved with projects which contribute to the 
 further building of the various Buy Local First programs in the East 
 Bay.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 
 donations are accepted\n\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/28/18678408.php
SUMMARY:Fixing the Future
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/28/18678408.php
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