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DESCRIPTION:“WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE -- and Other Stories of Globalization”\nSaul 
 Landau filmmaker and speaker at this event, is an internationally-known 
 author and filmmaker.\nAdmission by Voluntary Donations\n\nThis film breaks 
 new ground in political filmmaking. Using Mexico as an example of what much 
 of the Third World has experienced, the film shows how foreign investment 
 in export factories distorts both the culture and environment. Its 
 exquisite photography, elegant editing, and original music probe the 
 essence of the new economic dis-order.\n\nTo stop construction of a 
 corporate golf course and 1,500 vacation chalets, the people of Tepoztlan 
 confronted federal troops. As it has done in countless other villages 
 throughout the world corporate culture invaded,  constructing not just 
 factories and shopping malls, but proposed to replace soccer with the 
 corporate “sport” of golf.   The newly elected Tepoztlan mayor sneered: 
 “We don’t play that sport here,” because, he explained, maintenance 
 of a large golf course “would sap badly needed farming water; pesticides 
 and chemical fertilizer to maintain the grass would pollute the town’s 
 aquifers.” \n\nTijuana residents describe how the US owner of a battery 
 recycling plant allowed dangerous chemicals to seep into their 
 neighborhood. “It poisoned our children”, the local mayor charged. 
 Local, state and federal authorities refused to stop the contamination 
 process. Result: neighbors stormed the factory and forced its owner to 
 flee. \nThis is an event not to be missed!\n\nSaul Landau has written over 
 10 books, and his most widely praised achievements are the over forty films 
 he has produced on social, political, and worldwide human rights issues. In 
 addition to many film festival prizes, he has won the Letelier-Moffitt 
 Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and 
 the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the 
 Nuclear Gang."  And he received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination 
 on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando 
 Letelier in Washington DC.\n\nMark your calendars!\n\nFriday, May 11th at 
 7:00\nAt the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship\n6401 Freedom Blvd. in 
 Aptos\nTake the “Freedom” exit\n\nSponsored by the Social Action 
 Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of SC \nAnd Cuba Study 
 Group’s  “A Better World is Possible” film series.\n  \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/24/18404504.php
SUMMARY:Saul Landau will speak and show his film, "We Don't Play Golf Here: and Other Globalizatio
LOCATION:Unitarian Fellowship\n6401 Freedom! Blvd.\nAptos        ( Freeway exit:  
 Freedom! Blvd.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/24/18404504.php
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