Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
This documentary explores the worldwide economic collapse of 2008, tracing its origins to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce, this six-page memo is a free-market utopian treatise that called for a money-fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups. Today, politics is the playground of the rich and powerful, with no thought given to the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans. Moving beyond the white noise of today's polarizing media, HEIST provides viewers with a clear and concise explanation of how we got into this mess, and what we need to do to restore our representative democracy.