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When a Republican Governor's bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens force their way into the Wisconsin State Capitol, joining thousands of protesters who spend the next twenty-six days launching a popular uprising that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.

In Enschede (a city in the east of the Netherlands) on the 13Th of May 2000, while filmmaker Astrid Bussink was packing her belongings to move to Amsterdam, a fireworks storage -apparently located across her house- exploded, leading to 23 people dying and over a 1000 people injured. The neighborhood looked liked it was bombed. Now, almost ten years later she decides to return to her hometown, to see how the city rebuild itself and how people deal with this extraordinary moment in their lives. She discovers people are still seeking for answers; who is responsible for what happened? Who can be blamed? Astrid soon finds herself tangled up in a haunt for answers, but slowly starts to wonder whether any answer will ever be sufficient.

THE RUSSIAN RIVER: ALL RIVERS - THE VALUE OF AN AMERICAN WATERSHED explores the diverse forces influencing the well-being of California's legendary Russian River watershed. The film covers the river's history, as a geological, biological and social entity, as well as the conflicts and challenges it currently faces to restore and retain its health, problems shared by rivers everywhere, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Expressing the profound beauty of the river and its ecosystem, the film provides the community which depends on the Russian River watershed, as well as other communities blessed with great river watersheds, with a balanced and engaging resource to stimulate interest in, and motivate action about water use, water quality and the loss of irreplaceable biodiversity.

The war has been brewing for over a hundred years, resulting in loss of freedom and bank bailouts. Money Wars reveals the truth behind the real transformation of America. The war has begun for your money.

'Operation Small Axe' takes a raw and unflinching look at life under police terrorism in Oakland Ca. Through the stories of Oscar Grant, Lovelle Mixon and P.O.C.C. Minister of information JR Valrey, the film focuses on the occupation of Oakland's communities of color and the diversity in resistance to the militarized police forces.

Along with a first rate introduction to Anti-Trust Law, 'Suits' is a master lesson in how corporate monopolies illegal predatory pricing practices, squeezing of manufacturers and outsourcing have played no small role in our economic crisis. Equally stunning will be their exposure to the hard ball legal tactics of the ethically challenged major Wall Street law firms encountered by a group of hard working American small business men and women as they attempt to seek redress for these practices in the Eastern District of the U.S. Federal Court. In direct contrast is the moral rectitude of a woman from a Seventh Day Adventist charity who comes to pick up the spoils of this multi-million dollar judicial fiasco which ten years later is still not resolved.