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- -This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal (Canada) in the mid-1970s. As the city is restoring older apartments through direct action and government subsidies, new, low-rent housing is being integrated into old neighborhoods.
- A look at the realities of life in New York City in the 1970's. Two housing projects and the people trying to fix the city issues are profiled.
- Saul Alinsky helps the poor find an effective way of fighting for their rights.
- Up to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of 'Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered' and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film brings us into contact with this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.
- This animated short is the tale of a man roused from the torpor of his TV viewing by the sound of chainsaws whining their way through neighborhood trees. Harold has to do something, and how he does it is the subject of this film. It's a story that any citizen might well ponder. After all, Harold is the familiar non-hero that everyone knows.
- A documentary about a group of native Americans near the Canadian border. They attempt to blockade a road that runs through their land, leading to the Canadian police getting involved to open the road.
- -This short documentary chronicles an experiment tried out with the citizens of a working class neighborhood of Montreal (in Canada), with the aim of promoting concerted social action.
- Short film from the National Film of Canada on a meeting of aboriginal people at Duck Lake in 1967. The speakers all deal with the many difficulties native peoples face in society - discrimination, alcohol abuse, limited educational opportunities - and there is a fascinating debate at the end of the film on the value of native residential schools.
- Documentary about people building a sustainable lifestyle in Massachusetts.
- The residents of Bridgeview, British Columbia, complain about not having sewers.
- Acadians - French speaking people living in Maritime Canada - talk about their hopes.