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00:00Good evening, and welcome to Middletown High School.

00:07Tonight we have a visual history of Middletown and some other surprises.

00:11He never felt like a teacher.

00:13People used to call him Hippie Fred.

00:15Other educators would have us believe Fred was a crackpot.

00:21You don't learn by sitting in a classroom and taking notes.

00:25You learn by doing, by getting involved.

00:31Oh, wow.

00:32Wow, it's like going back in time.

00:35Action.

00:38I thought of myself more of a nuisance.

00:40I was an outsider.

00:42Misdirected youth.

00:45I was sort of against the system, but deep down I was cripplingly shy.

00:50In the 90s, you would have called me a poser.

00:52You're a dick, Jeff.

00:53You're a dick, Jeff.

00:55Yeah, Jeff, you're a dick.

00:56Old school teachers thought it was a joke.

01:03Making a movie is not like writing a five-page essay.

01:07Yeah, this is real life.

01:08That's harder.

01:11Middletown was picture perfect, but Fred was teaching us what's underneath the surface.

01:17Toxic waste was illegally dumped for 20 years.

01:23We're on the edge of some kind of pond.

01:25The smell is making me sick, Fred.

01:27We were meddling kids making a documentary.

01:30Like, that felt really powerful.

01:33Cover-ups from the county, state, and federal level.

01:36I'm nervous for that kid.

01:38I know it's in there because I buried lots of it.

01:40I don't think any of us had any sense of the scale of this story.

01:45The biggest garbage company was, in fact, run by organized crime.

01:48We're talking about mafia in our neighborhood.

01:51There was a perception that Fred was leading us into danger.

01:55The guy did threaten me.

01:57I think our phones are tapped.

01:59Mr. B advises that I buy a gun.

02:01You're going to stop videotaping me?

02:02I have nothing to hide.

02:03It's more than just a record of environmental crime.

02:11It's this archetype of young people rising up to the challenge and doing something about it.

02:21The school had had enough.

02:22I remember I asked Fred if we should keep going.

02:25He said, yeah, push harder.

02:27And I was like, fuck.

02:29Yeah!

02:31It was a community.

02:32It's one of the only reasons I came to school.

02:38What if we could get it right?

02:40What if society could turn the world back right side up?

02:45That became one of our mottos.

02:47Civic courage.

02:49It means acting as if you live in a real democracy.

02:53What if you live in a real democracy?

02:54What if you live in a real democracy?

02:55What if you live in a real democracy?

02:56What if you live in a real democracy?

02:57What if you live in a real democracy?

02:58What if you live in a real democracy?

02:59What if you live in a real democracy?

03:00What if you live in a real democracy?

03:01What if you live in a real democracy?

03:02What if you live in a real democracy?

03:03What if you live in a real democracy?

03:04What if you live in a real democracy?

03:05What if you live in a real democracy?

03:06What if you live in a real democracy?

03:07What if you live in a real democracy?

03:08What if you live in a real democracy?

03:09What if you live in a real democracy?

03:10What if you live in a real democracy?

03:11What if you live in a real democracy?

03:12What if you live in a real democracy?

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