Boom explores the effects of the dot-com boom and bust on community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film follows two evicted families struggling to survive amidst the economic tidal wave that hit that city during the late 90's. Also features interviews with dot-com workers, developers, the Mayor, and the community that challenged their new economic order. Go to official Boom site to learn more

"Witty, Poignant and Impassioned. . . Implications for every big city in America."
- Kevin Thomas, LA Times

"A Powerful Cautionary Statement." - Variety

Inspiring, Engaging and Enraging
In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a "free trade" pact that threatens to devastate poor people and the environment across North, Central, and South America. Tens of thousands of union members, environmentalists, feminists, farm workers, and other activists gathered in Miami to protest against the pact.

The police response to the protests set new standards for political repression. Police attacked protestors with rubber bullets, pepper spray, and electric tazers. Local media embedded reporters with the riot police, as in Iraq, and played down images of police violence, even while the brutality spiraled out of control.

THE MIAMI MODEL deftly documents the events as they unraveled, while also exploring the issues that drove the protests.

Showdown in Seattle is the series broadcast from the 1999 protests that shut down the World Trade Organization and signaled the arrival of the Global Justice movement in the US. These five dramatic 30-minute programs tell the story of that historic moment with an immediacy not found anywhere else. Collected here on one tape, this series was also the first television production of the Independent Media Center, which has since spread to 150 cities around the globe.