Communities

This week the film is a King Vidor, Our Daily Bread.

American pioneers began as communities in which people helped one another. The Great Depression led them to repeat the same experience of the pioneers. Smart solutions to put bread on the table. 
The government took the initiative of the New Deal to replace the informal organizations fearing to lose control and power.

Somewhere along the way american people were taught to hate and fear the same cooperation culture that has allowed their parents to survive and thrive.
Was it because politicians put names on social organizations? Suddenly democracy is socialism or worse, communism?

Twentieth century is based on communities, connection and cooperation. Our Daily Bread is another example of cultural innovation in cinema.

Greece: when the numbers are similar to those of the Great Depression...

Here is a greek mum, talking to a BBC radio program about her decision to vote NO.
She explains it very well. It's about people, their future, their children' future.
She doesn't want to see their children enslaved by the debt, "working to the IMF".
She also says that the numbers are similar to those of the Great Depression. 

EP promised that "this time it would be different", remember?
But... it is not different, and it's getting worse. Just listen to the several statements of the main European characters of this Great Farse...
I hope that an agreement is still possible. But if EC, ECB, Eurogroup and IMF choose the worst possible script, I hope there is an emergency plan, a plan B, for greek people.

Meanwhile... negotiations will be tough: