The Grassroots Project is designed to empower ordinary citizens by showing local activists at work creating change in our democracy. The Grassroots Project has two parts: Grassroots: Contesting Ohio and Grassroots: Raging Grannies. Contesting Ohio has been completed. Raging Grannies will be finished by mid-2008 in time for the 2008 elections.

Grassroots: Contesting Ohio

Contesting Ohio asks: Can a group of ordinary citizens influence the huge electoral machine that runs our country? Can they make their voices heard when the media and most of the country are ignoring them? Immediately after November 2, 2004, a group of passionately concerned San Francisco Bay Area residents said yes. They were teachers, lawyers, business people, computer experts, and other ordinary citizens—and they came together because of their shared desire to reform the computerized election process and to expose possible election fraud. They hoped to influence the ratification of the 2004 electoral college vote, and their specific target was Senator Barbara Boxer from California.

Reviews

"Electoral accountability is an issue that has received scant attention by mainstream media outlets, and Grassroots: Contesting Ohio will do much to remedy this situation. I'm impressed with both the quality of production and the information it provides."

—Eric Galatas, Dish Network's Free Speech TV

 

"Walton's film zooms in close on a small group of activists... Grassroots persuades with intimacy and accessibility."

—The Palo Alto Weekly

 

"I just previewed your documentary, Grassroots: Contesting Ohio, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It certainly is a story that needs to be told."

—Goldie Gardner, WNED/PBS, Buffalo, NY

 

"I appreciate that there's no name-calling and gross partisanship in the production. Grassroots: Contesting Ohio will make an excellent addition to the KPTS schedule."

—David Brewer, KPTS/PBS, Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

"Grassroots: Contesting Ohio is an excellent civics lesson."

—Gail Loeber, National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA)"

 

"Grassroots is one of the few sources available about the presidential election of 2004 and the questions that arose from it about election integrity. We could use at least 100 copies of this film, and, considering our connections to the international branches of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and to chapters of The Raging Grannies all over the country, it would likely be many more."

—Ruth Robertson, The Raging Grannies San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula Chapter

Awards & Broadcasts

• Best Social Commentary, Poppy Jasper Short Film Festival
• DishNetworks Free Speech TV through 2008
• PBS stations across the country. Check your local listings.

Links

Lingering Questions, Palo Alto Weekly

Stealing America: Vote by Vote

National Conference of State Legislatures

Election Line

League of Women Voters

The Raging Grannies

Ordering Info

Available now for home use for $25, plus shipping and handling

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Colleges, Libraries, and Institutions:Contact Pam Walton Productions

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Pam Walton Productions
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Mtn. View, CA 94039
Telephone: 650-960-3414
Fax: 650-962-8539

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How You Can Help The Grassroots Project

You can help. Between now and 2008 we'll need your help distributing Contesting Ohio and finishing production of Raging Grannies. We'll need to create publicity, do mailings, hold community screenings, and get in film festivals and on local PBS stations everywhere.

You can send a tax-deductible donation to Pam Walton Productions at the address provided above, made payable to Film Arts Foundation.