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For extra credit, take a look at your options below and then write up a brief 1.5-2page reflection that 1.) summarizes key ideas/main things that stood out to you and 2.) how does it relate to our class/readings/modules or the Chicanx Latinx community. You may complete more than one and then upload to Canvas under extra credit, be sure to upload as .PDF or .DOCX file.
I have color coded descriptions to give you an idea of what each option is about: Yellow indicated main topics covered Green indicates the style/type of media
On the Internet and FREE to watch
• Cutting edge and ground breaking research on restoring ecosystems and power of Fungi – free event day April 21 with discussions, Watch the film fantastic fungi ($5)
• https://fantasticfungi.com/
• Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Patrick Hanayway Discuss How to Empower Yourself in the Face of COVIC19 – Nature Medicine and Functional Medicine – Interview/Podcast
o https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/13/podcast-empowering-yourself-covid/
• Recovering Your Sacredness, Keynote Speech with Maestro Jerry Tello at Bioneers Conference, November 2019. Sacred healing, la cultura cura, Chicano Mexican culture, blessings and healing trauma.
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkrV1WB60k
• The North Pole– Short episodes miniseries on YouTube (8-9 min) about folx struggling against gentrification, white folx coming into Oakland and being young – Comedy! Watch Season 1 and/or Season 2
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drRPhlp1fxc&t=6s
• Cuba’s Cancer Hope:. When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they’ve developed lung cancer vaccines that show so much promise, some Americans are defying the embargo and traveling to Cuba for treatment. In an unprecedented move, Cuban researchers are working with U.S. partners to make the medicines more widely available. (Premiered April 1, 2020). Documentary
o https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/cubas-cancer-hope/
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• Roland Martin debates White Supremacist Richard Spencer on NewsOne, 30 min. Live Debate/Political Debate
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDOiaEeDoU
• Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj – Docuseries with a comedic twist. 30 minute episodes, check out one or more! Also available on Netflix and YouTube
o Why Billionaires Won’s Save Us:
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9CFBlLOcg
o Why We Can’t Retire – Youth and Financial Burdens While Taking Care of Family
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aDGFXNfyw
o Why It’s So Hard to Get Mental Health Care
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEuU_1ZGSY
o Civil Rights Under Trump
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKXIvfQnYEY
• Latino USA Podcast on NPR with Maria Hinojosa – Audio Only/Podcast/News/Politics
o With Bernie Sanders out, what happens with the Latino Vote?
▪ https://www.latinousa.org/2020/04/15/latinovotenow/
• How to Beat Corona Capitalism with Noami Klein, Astra Taylor and Keeanga Y-Taylor. Panel Discussion/Major Authors and Thinkers Reflect on How We Got Into Corona Crisis – what are the root causes related to capitalism/economy and politics and what we can do about it.
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0
• Corona Virus, Capitalism and Class Struggle with Presidential Runner Gloria LaRiva and Reflection with Gloria about the Bernie Sander Leaving Presidential Race– Panel Discussion/Major Thinkers Reflect on Capitalism and Corona Virus
o https://www.facebook.com/226457212514/videos/554321822171749
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQudNVPMOMc
• Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff discusses the psychological factors worsening this existing crisis, such as widespread loneliness and a sense of powerlessness, with Tess Fraad-Wolff, a psychotherapist practicing privately in New York City for the last decade, in an effort to better understand and more appropriately respond to the psychological aspects in today’s crises we all face.
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA02qZndDSA
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• The COVID Class Divide, Handouts for the 1% and Trump with Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Discussion/Analysis of Economics and Politics/Current News about the major Trillions of dollar for wall street companies.
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en8zzHcVwvg
On Netflix
• Knock Down the House –. When tragedy struck her family in the midst of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts in a restaurant to save her home from foreclosure. After losing a loved one to a preventable medical conditions, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health care system. Cori Bush was drawn into the streets when the police shooting of an unarmed black man brought protests and tanks into her neighborhood. Paula Jean was fed up with watching herfriends and family suffer and die from environmental affects of the coal industry. At a historic volatile moment in American politics these four women decide to fight back, without political experience or corporate money, they build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging member’s seats in Congress. Their efforts are legendary. Documentary
• Gentefied – Series, Season 1. Mexican American/Mexican immigrant familia in Los Angeles fight to keep their grandfather taco shop alive while neighborhood faces gentrification – Comedy!
• Oliver Stone’s An Untold History of the United States. History, 12 episodes, 55 min each – choose 1 episode. from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Professor Peter Kuznick. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies, ranging from WW2 Era, Nuclear War, Cold-War Scare, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and more. Documentary
• Cuba Libre – Watch episodes 3, 4 or 5. This documentary recounts the story of the Cuban Revolution, freedom fighters and the cold war times. Documentary
• Inequality for All – features Robert Reich–professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member–as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves. Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself. Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the issue of economic inequality affects each and every one of us. Documentary
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• Who Killed Malcolm X? Decades after the assassination of African American leader Malcolm X, an activist takes on a complex journey seeking truth in the name of justice. Alleges that innocent men went to prison while the killer(s) got away. Docuseries. Watch 1 episode or more.
• Dirty Money – is a Netflix original television series which tells stories of corporate corruption, securities fraud and creative accounting. All six one-hour long episodes began streaming on Netflix on January 26, 2018. The show’s executive producers include Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney. Each episode focuses on one example of corporate corruption and includes interviews with key players in each story. Docuseries. Check out 1 or more episodes.
• Patriot Act is an American comedy web television talk show hosted by Hasan Minhaj that premiered on October 28, 2018, on Netflix. With five seasons to date, the show has won an Emmy, a Peabody Award, and two Webby Awards. Comedy/Alternative News. Docuseries. 30 min. Watch one or more of the following: o Volume 2, Episode Minhaj takes aim at student loan servicers, who prey on vulnerable Americans in their attempt to pay off debilitating student loan debt, an increasingly severe and uniquely American problem. o Volume 2, Episode Civil Rights Under Trump: Civil Rights are being quietly dismantled by Trump’s cabinet officials. Hasan explores how they’re doing it and why it’s so dangerous. o Volume 3, NRA Global Impact: The NRA is going global. Hasan takes an insightful look at the ways the organization has been hypocritically spreading its dangerous message and business practices around the world. o Volume 5, Episode Why Billionaires Won’t Save Us: The wealthiest Americans are often celebrated for their prolific giving, but is it altruism or is it all just hype? Hasan dissects how the ultra-rich use philanthropy to get richer, distract from the injustices on which they built their fortunes, and dictate politics and policy. o Volume 5, Episode – Why We Can’t Retire: With the help of Senator Bernie Sanders, Hasan breaks down the financial burden of younger generations caring for their aging parents – and themselves.
On Amazon Prime Video
Stolen Education: In 1956 eight students testified in a federal desegregation court case. As Mexican Americans, they were placed in three years of first grade as a way to discriminate against them by the all White school board, administration and faculty. Stolen Education documents the journey to recapture the remarkable story of the schoolchildren who changed educational history in Texas and to confront the continued inequity in public schools today. Documentary/Schools/Discrimination
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A Class Apart: Built around the landmark 1954 legal case, Hernandez v.Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the civil rights movement. It also brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggle of Mexican Americans fighting to dismantle the discrimination targeted against them. Documentary/Civil Rights/Courts
Ruben Salazar, Man in the Middle: Examines the life and mysterious death of pioneering journalist Ruben Salazar. At the heart of the story is Salazar’s transformation from a mainstream, establishment reporter to primary chronicler and supporter of the radical Chicano movement of the late 1960s. Killed under mysterious circumstances by a law enforcement officer in 1970, Salazar became an instant martyr to Latinos – many of whom had criticized his reporting during his lifetime. Adding to the Salazar mystique is that the details of how he was killed have been obscured in the ensuing four decades since his death. Featuring material from recently released files obtained by the filmmaker, Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle removes Salazar from the glare of myth and martyrdom and offers a clear-eyed look at the man and his times. The film, produced and directed by Phillip Rodriguez, includes interviews with Salazar’s friends, colleagues and family members, and Salazar’s own words culled from personal writings. Documentary/Chicano History/Journalist
Capitalism A Love Story: The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the then-current economic order in the United States and of unfettered capitalism in general. Topics covered include Wall Street’s “casino mentality”, for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs’ influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of “runaway greed”.The film also features a religious component in which Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and whether Jesus would be a capitalist; this component highlights Moore’s belief that evangelical conservatives contradict themselves by supporting free market ideals while professing to be Christians. Documentary/Economics/Wealth Inequality/Comedy.
This Changes Everything: What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Documentary/Climate Change/Environment
Citizen Koch: A documentary that follows the money behind the rise of the Tea Party. When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stripped state workers of their union rights in 2011, was it simply a classic face-off between labor and management, or a bold political move designed to
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weaken his party’s political opposition? Set against the rise of the Tea Party and Occupy movements, the US Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United, and the 2012 presidential campaign, Citizen Koch documents the consequences for democracy when private interests determine who is elected to deliver public good. Documentary/Politics/Money in Politics
Beyond Pollution: This is a firsthand investigation of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill that devastated thousands of miles of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico. After witnessing the havoc wreaked on his hometown and its surrounding areas, director Barker White and a team of emerging filmmakers traveled across the most severely impacted areas of the gulf coast interviewing environmental experts, government authorities, fishermen, scientists, drilling engineers, and key BP contractors in a quest to uncover the truth behind the spill. Beyond Pollution examines the economic impact and health effects of this tragedy on the local communities both in the immediate and long terms, uncovering what really happened, why, and who actually benefited from the largest man-made disaster in America’s history. Documentary/Environment/Climate
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