Andrew Fisher,who has worked in the anti-starvation field for twenty years as an executive director, researcher, or policy advocate,and coalition builder, discusses his fresh book Big starvation: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-starvation Groups. Filmmaker Joao Moreira Salles discusses his fresh documentary, and In the Intense Now,that uses archival footage and domestic movies to showcase uprisings in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, or the Cultural Revolution in China.Filmmakers Tom Meyers and Dennis Doros talk about The Champion: America’s First Film Town,a documentary about The Champion Film Company in Fort Lee, fresh Jersey, or which served as the epicenter of the film industry before Hollywood. Jeff Reinhardt,Geoff Boyce and Alicia Dinsmore discuss the arrests of volunteers from the immigrant aid group "No More Deaths" and how immigration policies are playing out on the Arizona/Mexico border.
This episode is guest hosted by Jonathan Capehart.
Source: thetakeaway.org