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DESCRIPTION:Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments and social hour at  
 6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nSHARKWATER\nThe Truth will Surface\nby Rob 
 Stewart\n\nFilmmaker Rob Stewart does a magnificent job of thoroughly 
 dismantling the caricature of sharks as ferocious monsters deserving of our 
 fear and hatred;  he debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of 
 sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters.  Instead, he reveals the 
 reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas and captures 
 their gentle beauty and vital importance to life as we know it.  His film 
 reveals the importance of the oceans and the sharks’ place at the top of 
 the food chain to keep everything balanced.\n\nBut you don’t need to be 
 an environmentalist to appreciate the frightening ordeal he found himself 
 in while filming.   In an effort to protect sharks, Rob Stewart teams up 
 with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation 
 Society.  Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle 
 between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in 
 pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court 
 systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives. 
   Stewart’s film is his courageous documenting of the heart-wrenching 
 barbarity imposed upon sharks (and other aquatic life),  exposing the 
 exploitation and corruption surrounding the world’s shark populations in 
 the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica, and the Galapagos Islands, 
 Ecuador.\n\nStewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from 
 predator to prey, and despite surviving the earth’s history of mass 
 extinctions and surviving for 450 million years, they could easily be wiped 
 out within a few years due to human greed.  His remarkable journey of 
 courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world’s 
 sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.\n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659196.php
SUMMARY:Sharkwater
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659196.php
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