The Democracy Rebellion
The Democracy Rebellion: A Reporter's Notebook with Hedrick Smith
• voting rights
• citizen's united
• gerrymander reform
His recent film, The People vs The Politicians, airing on MSNBC and available to view on YouTube, tells the inspiring story of six of the many successful grassroots victories being won across the nation by citizens determined to win back our representative voice in politics.
Momentum for reform is building. Success depends on how many Americans take inspiration and lessons from the reform initiatives already happening across the country.
• Preview: Special | 30s | Aired: 01/06/20
https://www.pbs.org/video/preview-ruaxts/
• Full Length Film | 56m 4s | Aired: 01/06/20
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-democracy-rebellion-a-reporters-notebook-with-hedrick-i8oy2s/
Journalist Hedrick Smith travels the country looking for positive stories of democratic reform and finds them in six states where grassroots activists are fighting to equal the playing field.
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The Democracy Rebellion | Youtube
For every flaw in our political campaigns - rigged elections, dark money, vote suppression, "Citizens United," grassroots reform movements have come up with solutions and have been winning reforms. This is their story, the story of People Power in action. It's coming this month on PBS stations this month.
This is the missing story of American politics, given short shrift by big media. Not Washington, but grassroots America. Not stale gridlock, but fresh reforms. Not negative ads and billionaire donors, but positive change and citizen activists pressing for gerrymander reform, voting rights for former felons, exposing dark money, and winning surprising victories to give voters more voice and make elections fairer in states as disparate as Florida and California, North Carolina and South Dakota, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, Missouri, Utah and more.
This new wave of reform has echoes in American history - the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and the Progressive era, a century ago, when women won the right to vote, we adopted direct election of senators, President Teddy Roosevelt was busting the trusts, and Congress in 1907 imposed a ban on corporate money in election campaigns.. now reformers are back at it again.
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I watched this film last night on my local PBS channel. I was pleasantly surprised to see a documentary film that presented a behind the scene look at the struggle currently happening across America. If you're wondering where we stand and how you can make a difference, it's well worth the watch.
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