Next up on MCN6, Mick’s film, The Heart of Bassett Place, the story of the old Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in North Minneapolis. For more info or to purchase this film visit: www.southhillfilms.com
Showing this afternoon on Minnesota Cable Network (MCN6): Mick’s film Muses and Mementos - interview footage with the elder Eugene McCarthy. For more info or to purchase Mick’s films visit: www.southhillfilms.com
Today is an anniversary all Americans should appreciate. Mick's latest project, Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare, is now in post-production mode. Stay tuned for updates regarding premieres and broadcast air dates.
For more info and to donate to this timely historical project, visit: www.southhillfilms.com
For more info and to donate to this timely historical project, visit: www.southhillfilms.com
Sen Dianne Feinstein on Twitter
“86 years ago, FDR appointed Francis Perkins to be the nation’s first female Cabinet secretary. From establishing unemployment benefits to crafting the first minimum-wage laws, we owe many of today’s protections for workers to her time as Secretary of Labor. #WomensHistoryMonth”
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To those who fret about the danger of “socialist” policies, Lawrence O’Donnell has a history lesson for you.
Lawrence’s Last Word
In the Last Word, Lawrence looks at Donald Trump’s State of the Union remarks about socialism—and tells the truth about the kinds of socialism Donald Trump never ever complains about, including the kind on display on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Mick’s current project, Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare, is now in post-production mode! Premieres are being scheduled all over the country for Fall 2019. The documentary will air on national public tv stations by March 2020 for the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage and Election Year! Watch the video pan in this post of the document FDR signed making her Labor Secretary in his Cabinet. He speaks in this clip about her work creating Social Security Insurance.
From film footage not included in Mick's documentary, Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible, Humphrey says, “It doesn’t really take any great competence to be an authoritarian, but it does to be a democrat, with a small ‘d’.” See this 90 second clip in which Humphrey, the scholar and statesman, defines what it takes to build a true democracy - and VOTE!
Humphrey on democracy
Hubert Humphrey talks about democracy in a 1976 interview with Bill Moyers
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