How to Save Democracy: The Film

What's Going to Move Us Forward?

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HOW TO SAVE DEMOCRACY is an incisive and provocative documentary feature film that explores the roots of democracy and its ebbs and flows over its history in the U.S., and why it is currently struggling to continue. Its cast of interview subjects include:

Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and political essayist
Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and senior editor at ProPublica
George Monbiot, British author, journalist and environmental activist
David Dayen, executive editor, The American Prospect
David Daley, author, “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count”
Les Leopold, author, “Wall Street’s War on Workers”
Madiba K. Dennie, author, “The Originalism Trap”
Michelle Shenandoah, Oneida Nation, Professor of Indigenous Law, Founder, Rematriation
Brianna Cea, Founder and Executive Director, Generation Vote

The director

The director, Michael Wayne, is a filmmaker, writer/author, and doctor. He is also an activist for a just society and world, a progressive, and an advocate for economic democracy.

You can find him on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/michael.wayne.1654
and on Blue Sky, at @mwayne2.bsky.social

Director's Statement:

With democracy in the U.S. teetering--the U.S. is currently rated a flawed democracy--and Donald Trump once again ascending to the presidency and testing the limits of democracy, I decided I wanted to make a documentary film that looks at what democracy is, how it's defined, the roots of democracy, the periods in time when democracy flourished and struggled, and how things can be restored to the true promise of what democracy holds. The people interviewed--Pulitzer Prize winners, journalists, authors, activists, constitutional scholars, and historians--all give depth and perspective as to what it would take to realize the aspirations of democracy.

How to Save Democracy: The Film
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