Thanks to everyone for supporting the work of the “If I Had A Trillion Dollars” youth film festival and for voting for our video entry, “Dear Congress, Invest in Us” in the Looking@Democracy contest. WE WON THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD! Looking@Democracy judge Byron Hurt had this to say about our entry: “With so many stereotypes of Millennials as the ‘me generation,’ it’s refreshing to see young people involved and engaged in improving our democracy at the local level. I look forward to the […]

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If you turn onto Ellsworth Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you might come across a big house standing between two tall green trees. This is the Pittsburgh Friends Meeting House where the American Friends Service Committee’s Racial Justice Through Human Rights youth program meets twice each month on Sunday afternoons to learn about the importance of human rights and equality. The group is run by Scilla Wahrhaftig, the program director at the Friends Meeting House. The students come from different social […]

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I just built a better budget, a budget that reflect my spending and revenue priorities, based on real budgets proposed by Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan and the House Republicans, President Barack Obama and the Democrats, the non-partisan Office of Management and Budget, or the House Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). Creating a better budget is a lot easier than I thought, which makes it hard to understand why Congress is unable to get the job done on schedule. Check out the “Build […]

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Last weekend, I saw ‘The House I Live In,’ a documentary by Eugene Jarecki on the War on Drugs.  If you see any movie this year, see this one. The obvious reason IHTD followers should check out this film is that we’ve spent over $1,000,000,000,000 (that’s a trillion dollars) fighting this endless, ineffective, and racist ‘War on Drugs’ since 1971.  Last year, the federal government alone spent over $25 billion enforcing the War on Drugs, and requested an increase in funds […]

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Our new playlist is up, for the 3rd annual IHTD film festival!  Watch the videos as they are submitted, and get inspired to create your own 3 minute video for the ‘If I Had a Trillion Dollars’ Youth Film Festival.

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