On Wednesday I went to the premiere of "Pay 2 Play". This is a comprehensive, deep and very entertaining documentary regarding the hot issue of money in politics.
The film pieces together campaign funding, Citizens United, ALEC, the Powell memo, OWS and many other related topics.
Along the way it uses the (new to me) history of the board game Monopoly to tie it all together.
Not only does it show the breadth and length of the destruction of the American political system and the emergence of an oligarchy but it actually proposes, at the end, what IMO is the first coherent strategy to solving this problem.
I'd be happy to put anyone in touch with one of the producers, my good friend Holly Mosher, if they think they can help get the film out there in any way.
The premiere was well attended and it featured speakers including CA-Sen (an probably the replacement of US Congressman Henry Waxman) Ted Lieu, co-author of SB 1272 that will ask for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United in the November ballot in CA and my friend Kai Newkirk of 99 Rise.
John Wellington Ennis, the Director, spoke too. The film is almost a 1st person diary of his experience from the Ohio political campaign for Paul Hackett to the intricacies of the Koch bros effort to corrupt the political system.
It also features interviews with some of my favorites like Marianne Williamson, and many other prominent experts like Lawrence Lessig, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones and even Jack Abramoff.
I believe that this is a must watch film because it puts everything together in a way that anyone can understand this complex issue and it even puts a strategy on the table to get America to a functioning democracy.