Screening: The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

The American dream has worked for the wealthy but is a nightmare for those born with less. This contrast is particularly stark for the Disneyland employees who work at ‘The Happiest Place On Earth’ and are unable to put food on the table. Using her family’s story, Abigail Disney explores how this systemic injustice took hold and imagines a way toward a more equitable future. Could she, a descendent, with no role in the multinational conglomerate, use her famous last name to help pressure Disney and other American corporations to treat low-wage workers more humanely?

What Abigail learns in – about racism, corporate power and the American Dream, is eye-opening, unexpected, and inspiring in that it begins to imagine a path to a fairer future for everyone. Filmed over a two year period, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales travels from amusement park, to boardroom, to union hall. It…