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DESCRIPTION:Peace Action of San Mateo County will present the film "Heist: Who Stole 
 the American Dream?" on Friday, September 21, 7 PM at the Unitarian 
 Universalists of San Mateo, 300 E. Santa Inez Ave. (at Ellsworth) in San 
 Mateo. The UUSM is wheelchair accessible.\n\n"Heist..." investigates the 
 roots of the current economic crisis, and the ongoing assault on working 
 people in the U.S. Beginning in the time of the New Deal of Franklin Delano 
 Roosevelt's administration, the film tells the hidden story of how over the 
 years corporate leaders worked with elected officials of both major 
 political parties to create the largest transfer of wealth in history - 
 resulting in an enormous gap between the rich and the poor. The film is 
 structured as a political thriller, showing the shift from New Deal reforms 
 to an ideology where the free market reigns.\n\nToday's news blames 
 Americans' devastated 401(k)'s and collapsed home values on financial 
 earthquakes within the last two years. But "Heist..." also traces these 
 seismic shifts back to their roots in the early 1970s. It shows how large 
 corporations - acting through lobbying organizations like the Business 
 Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - began a political 
 mobilization that would propel the largest transfer of wealth in history. 
 The winners were the wealthiest 1% of our population. The losers were 
 ordinary Americans, whose real income has barely increased since 
 1973.\n\nThe film's protagonists - including U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, 
 political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz, and former Obama 
 Administration advisor on green jobs Van Jones - is a solid list of folks 
 doing critical work around rethinking the current American economic 
 structure. This allows the film to be solution-oriented and a beacon of 
 hope and change for economic justice. "Heist..." clearly lays out a 
 step-by-step narrative of the evolution of this economic disaster, and 
 eventually offers suggestions on what people can do to help fix the 
 situation.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/09/18721318.php
SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Film 'Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?'
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/09/18721318.php
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