The Failure to Feed America, Our First Film Town, A Border Update

Andrew Fisher, who has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty years as an executive director, researcher, policy advocate, and coalition builder, discusses his new book Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups. Filmmaker Joao Moreira Salles discusses his new documentary, In the Intense Now, that uses archival footage and home movies to showcase uprisings in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Cultural Revolution in China. Filmmakers Tom Meyers  and Dennis Doros talk about The Champion: America’s First Film Town, a documentary about The Champion Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which served as the epicenter of the film industry before Hollywood. Jeff Reinhardt, Geoff Boyce and Alicia Dinsmore discuss the arrests of volunteers from the immigrant aid group "No More Deaths" and how immigration policies are playing out on the Arizona/Mexico border.

This episode is guest hosted by Jonathan Capehart.