{"id":296,"date":"2023-11-20T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2023-11-20T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:42:52","slug":"world-power-usa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/what-to-watch\/world-power-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"World Power &#8211; USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YCSo2hZRcXk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knock Down the House<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-192\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08092718\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-092630-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08092718\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-092630-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08092718\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-092630.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A documentary following four female Democrats who decided to run for Congress in the <a title=\"2018 United States elections\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_United_States_elections\">2018 United States elections<\/a>:\u00a0<a title=\"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>\u00a0of New York,\u00a0<a title=\"Amy Vilela\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Vilela\">Amy Vilela<\/a>\u00a0of Nevada,\u00a0<a title=\"Cori Bush\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cori_Bush\">Cori Bush<\/a>\u00a0of Missouri, and\u00a0<a title=\"Paula Jean Swearengin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paula_Jean_Swearengin\">Paula Jean Swearengin<\/a> of West Virginia. The film charts their campaigns in their respective Democratic primaries. The four candidates each run grassroots campaigns against long-time incumbents. Available for free on YouTube (link provided) and also found on Netflix.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81304760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whose Vote Counts, Explained<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08093551\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-093537-286x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08093551\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-093537-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/missmcmillanreads\/uploads\/sites\/40093\/2023\/03\/08093551\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-093537.png 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A short documentary exploring the politics of voting in US elections narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Available on Netflix and for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yn36tY7rNUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knock Down the House A documentary following four female Democrats who decided to run for Congress in the 2018 United States elections:\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0of New York,\u00a0Amy Vilela\u00a0of Nevada,\u00a0Cori Bush\u00a0of Missouri, and\u00a0Paula Jean Swearengin of West Virginia. The film charts their campaigns in their respective Democratic primaries. The four candidates each run grassroots campaigns against long-time incumbents. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/what-to-watch\/world-power-usa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Power &#8211; USA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44363,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/missmcmillanreads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}