THIRD PARTY: POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES IN THE AGE OF DUOPOLY
Price: $99.95 Code: 2119 |
Directed by Michael Burns
2003, 105 or 55 minute versions available
Purchase: $99.95
This feature-length video offers a comprehensive survey of the major third party efforts in American politics today. It features interviews with leaders in the Libertarian, Green, Reform, Labor, Communist, Socialist, Working Families, and Workers World parties, plus commentary from activists and academics including Ronnie Dugger, Frances Fox Piven, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher, and Noam Chomsky, among others.
Third Party looks carefully at what motivates and inspires parties vying for a foothold in a country dominated politically by the Democrats and Republicans, and explores their strategies, their issues, and their thoughts on the obstacles they face. It also follows the third-party candidacy of Mike DeRosa, a Green Party member running for State Senate in Connecticut, illustrating what it's like to run as a political alternative in a system and culture designed primarily for two parties.
"Just in time for the 2004 elections comes this in-depth study of options to the two traditional national political parties. And quite a study it is!...The depth and scope of this program make it most valuable as a research resource for school media collections." - School Library Journal
2003, 105 or 55 minute versions available
Purchase: $99.95
This feature-length video offers a comprehensive survey of the major third party efforts in American politics today. It features interviews with leaders in the Libertarian, Green, Reform, Labor, Communist, Socialist, Working Families, and Workers World parties, plus commentary from activists and academics including Ronnie Dugger, Frances Fox Piven, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher, and Noam Chomsky, among others.
Third Party looks carefully at what motivates and inspires parties vying for a foothold in a country dominated politically by the Democrats and Republicans, and explores their strategies, their issues, and their thoughts on the obstacles they face. It also follows the third-party candidacy of Mike DeRosa, a Green Party member running for State Senate in Connecticut, illustrating what it's like to run as a political alternative in a system and culture designed primarily for two parties.
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“...filled with facts and ideas from minute one to minute 105...” - Film Threat"Just in time for the 2004 elections comes this in-depth study of options to the two traditional national political parties. And quite a study it is!...The depth and scope of this program make it most valuable as a research resource for school media collections." - School Library Journal