<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>friends and neighbors,</div><div><br></div><div>Next Friday and Saturday, Joe's Movement Emporium in Mt. Rainier will be hosting an Environmental film festival. Hopefully, these films can help create a mindset which overcomes fear and isolation in dealing with some of the most serious problems we face today. </div><div><br></div><div>Please see listing below with a schedule of screenings from Joe's web site. <<a href="http://www.joesmovement.org">www.joesmovement.org</a>></div><div><br></div><div>You may have seen some of these films already, but if you haven't, they are highly recommended and many will inspire you in these uncertain times. Of local interest, 'Lessons From the Waterfront: the Anacostia,' was made by DC teens; and 'Vieques: Diary of a Struggle' was made by Marika Hoffman Suval who many know from her yoga classes in Hyattesville and Mt Rainier.</div><div><br></div><div>The admission price is very reasonable so pass the word on to others.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jonah</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Environmental Film Festival <br>Show Titles & Times</b></font></p><br><img src="cid:2DCF220E-D45A-480C-8063-56831F064360@local"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); min-height: 19px; "><br></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Friday, October 10, 2008</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>The Story of Stuff <br>Dir. Annie Leonard, 2007 - 6:00pm Runtime: 20mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever</font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#f4c93b" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(244, 201, 59); ">.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Lessons from the Waterfront: The Anacostia<br>Dir. Multi-Media Training Institute, 2005 - 6:30pm Runtime: 33mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">A video project by DC teens about the Anacostia River and the neighborhood that shares its name. The budding filmmakers speak confidently about the river's past, its present-day pollution and the cleaner future that many envision.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America<br>Dir. Jeff Barrie, 2007 - 7:00pm Runtime: 55mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">Award-winning film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmental challenges: energy. Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production including mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming. Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easily make a difference and here’s how!”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Vieques: Diary of a Struggle<br>Dir. Marika Hoffman Suval, 2008 - 8:00pm Runtime: 25mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">Vieques, an island of the United States territory of Puerto Rico, was, until 2003, a naval base, used for bomb-dropping tests. Such actions were taken without consideration for the health and welfare of the island's inhabitants and, therefore, sparked a string of protests.<br>Vieques: Diary of a Struggle documents this injustice, as it is seen from the eyes of the people--particularly a grandmother who has watched her descendants succumb to cancer and her beloved island squashed into a mere fraction of itself.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use & Abuse to Africa<br>Dir. Basel Action Network, 2005 - 8:30pm Runtime: 25mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and Abuse to Africa exposes the ugly side of an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers.<br>In Lagos, Nigeria, the local experts complain that as much as 75% of the imports are “junk” and are not economically repairable or marketable. Consequently, this e-waste, which is legally a hazardous waste is being discarded and routinely burned in what the environmentalists call yet “another “cyber-age nightmare now landing on the shores of developing countries.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Trashed<br>Dir. Bill Kirkos, 2007 - 9:00pm Runtime: 75mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">Trashed is a provocative investigation of one of the fastest growing industries in North America: the garbage business. <br>The American waste stream is fast approaching a half billion tons annually. What are the effects all this waste will have on already strained natural resources? Why is so much of it produced? W ho is affected most? And who wants America to make more? <br>Trashed analyzes the causes and effects of the seemingly innocuous act of “taking out the garbage” while showcasing the individuals, activists,corporate and advocacy groups working to effect change and reform.</font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Saturday, October 11, 2008</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Generation Earth<br>Dir. Jeff Barrie, 1995 - 12:00pm Runtime: 44mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">Generation Earth is an action-packed survey of hands-on environmental programs. The video's two college-age producers take viewers across America as they search for successful projects in both rural and urban schools. <br>They find students involved in a wide range of creative activities in their schools and communities. These include environmental auditing of their campuses and local businesses, monitoring water quality, gardening and composting, mentoring younger students, seeking environmental justice, writing letters, and creating slide shows, documentaries and newspapers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Lessons from the Waterfront: The Anacostia<br>Dir. Multi-Media Training Institute, 2005 - 1:00pm Runtime: 33mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>The Story of Stuff<br>Dir. Annie Leonard, 2007 - 1:40pm Runtime: 20mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Trashed<br>Dir. Bill Kirkos, 2007 - 2:00pm Runtime: 75mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use & Abuse to Africa<br>Dir. Basel Action Network, 2005 - 3:30pm Runtime: 25mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America<br>Dir. Jeff Barrie, 2007 - 4:00pm Runtime: 55mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil<br>Dir. Faith Morgan, 2006 - 5:00pm Rumtime: 53mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>Vieques: Diary of a Struggle<br>Dir. Marika Hoffman Suval, 2008 - 6:00pm Runtime: 25mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); "><b>See Above!</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#000e61" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 14, 97); "><b>A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil<br>Dir. Giovanni Vaz Del Bello, 2007 - 7:00pm Runtime: 52mins</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#ad363e" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(173, 54, 62); ">There is hope! This inspirational documentary shows a city where urban solutions are not just theory, but a reality. <br>A Convenient Truth shows innovations in the areas of transportation, recycling, social benefits (affordable housing), parks, and the great philosophy behind the successful leaders that transformed Curitiba in a model green city.</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AD363E" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div>
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