This Sunday, Earth Day, marks the 2 year anniversary of the sinking of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. I was co-editor of the documentary, The Big Fix, that investigates the oil spill and exposes the impact on the people and the Gulf.

In the film, we expose the oligarchy that has captured our Democracy and corrupted our governments. We show how that corruption led to the spill itself through lax regulation and how it allowed the spraying of millions of gallons of extremely toxic dispersant to hide the oil and protect the corporations, like BP. Two years later, news stories are coming out all over about the mutations and the collapse of the Gulf fisheries. The Big Fix asks and answers the question, how could this be allowed to happen? 

The Big Fix is being distributed as a grass-roots, bottom up, crowd sourcing activist tool. It is screening in over forty locations across the country this Earth Day weekend and beyond. Anyone who would like to host a screening of this documentary can go to this link above and set one up. Non-profit organizations can host a screening and use the screening as a fundraiser by selling tickets. Individuals can host a screening and give tickets to non-profit organizations to sell.

If you are interested in hosting a screening, follow this link and get the details. You can also check to see if there is already a screening in your area.

            

If you are in the LA area, be sure to go see THE BIG FIX, the movie I co-edited for the last year about the BP spill and the corruption of our democracy and our governments that made it possible.

The film is playing exclusively in Santa Monica this weekend and in New York next month. 

This is a powerful and controversial documentary and this may be your only chance to see it in a theater. The film features interviews from Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, David Korten, Greg Palast and many others as well as a new song by Jason Mraz.

Here is a link to the film’s webpage:

http://thebigfixmovie.com/Home.html

I invite you to come out this rainy weekend in Santa Monica and see this film. It will be playing Sat. at 12 and 2:30, Sun. at 12 and 7. There is the possibility that more screenings will be added. I will be seeing the 12pm showing Sat. If you are interested, I strongly urge you to by tickets online.

Here are the details of the screening I just bought tickets for on Fandango:

Movie: The Big Fix

Date: 11/12/2011

Time: 12:00 PM

Theater: AMC Loews Broadway 4

1441 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA, 90401

Purchase your tickets now!

http://www.fandango.com/thebigfix_149751/movieoverview

Although they may appear to be poles apart on the role of government, Keynesians and market fundamentalists share a basic Old Economy perspective on many basic issues. Both look to GDP growth as the true and defining measure of economic performance. Both take the existing structure of market institutions as a given. Both ignore the difference between phantom wealth and real wealth.

Neither school has the tools to conceive or implement a New Economy restructuring of the money/banking system. Under a New Economy regime, government would have taken over the failed banks, negotiated financial settlements at steeply discounted prices with creditors, and restructured Wall Street’s mega-banks to spin off individual units as independent locally owned community banks, mostly organized as nonprofits or cooperatives. So-called “shadow banking” institutions devoted solely to playing unproductive financial games would have been shut down.

Instead, captive to Wall Street political interests and limited to an Old Economy frame, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department teamed up to shower Wall Street banks and corporations with $13 trillion in virtually free bailout money to fund bonuses, dividends, takeovers, and the purchase of bonds paying a market interest rate issued by the government to fund the bailout.

The Big Fix

The documentary I just finished editing about the BP oil spill and the total corruption of our Democracy by the corporate oligarchy. Coming to a theater near you soon…