Here are the last events for this semester. Hope you can attend.
Details below.
1. Cinema Politica - BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS
Tuesday, Dec. 9th at 7pm
Galileo's Gallery
2. Amnesty International's Write for Rights
Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7pm
Penny Coffee House
The Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group presents a screening of the
film BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS on Tuesday, Dec. 9th at 7pm in Galileo's
Gallery. All are welcome, admission is free, and refreshments will be
served. This screening is part of the Cinema Politica Film Series,
presented every Tuesday evening at 7pm in Galileo's Gallery. The next film
will be on January 13th.
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Sam Bozzo / USA / 2008
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and
wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as
population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of
agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water
well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the
earth.
Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water
supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk
water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and
political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political
map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.
We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic
right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N.
conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools.
As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A
line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?
This screening of Blue Gold is a feedback screening. The film maker, Sam
Bozzo, is cutting a 52 minute television version of the film and would
love audience feedback as to what scenes to cut. Please go to the film's
website to contact Sam with your comments.
www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S WRITE FOR RIGHTS
Write for Rights is Now!
Join us to write letters on December 10 between 7-9 pm at The Penny Coffee
House.
Food, henna tattoos and fortune telling, plus crafts for kids! Musicians
performing are Dale Ketcheson, Richard Doerksen and Floyd Sillitoe - an
eclectic mix!
Help us write the most letters in Canada! We will be collecting donations
for the Red Cross for the refugees in the Congo.
If you can't make it, please send letters and e-appeals on your own. The
link to cases for letter writing and e-appeals is:
http://www.amnesty.ca/writeathon/actions/actions.php
