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DESCRIPTION:The new film END:CIV, based on the writings of Derrick Jensen, by very 
 independent film maker Franklin Lopez, will be screened in Santa Cruz on 
 Sunday February 20th at 7pm at the Unity Temple, 407 Broadway. $5-10 
 donation (no one turned away, and the proceeds will benefit the film 
 maker). The film maker will also be in attendance at the showing. This 
 screening is also supported by the Santa Cruz Guerilla 
 Drive-In.\n\nEND:CIV\nThis culture will eat you alive\nFight back; resist & 
 survive\n\nIf your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests 
 and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? If creatures from outer 
 space made the water so poisonous you wouldn't dream of drinking it, would 
 you try to stop them? If monsters released toxic chemicals that caused 
 cancer in the people you love, would you fight back?\n\nThese aren't idle 
 questions. It's happening now – except there are no aliens. The culture 
 that's cradled us since birth is a killer.\n\nEND:CIV illustrates the 
 brutality of a civilization addicted to systematic violence and 
 environmental destruction, and the heroism of those who confront it 
 head-on. Rapid-fire video-game graphics, interviews, war footage and satire 
 mock the excesses of the global economic system, even as it implodes around 
 us.\n\nBased on the best-seller Endgame by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV begins 
 with the harsh reality that all civilizations eventually end. The ancient 
 Mayans, the dynasties of China, and the mighty Roman Empire, as long-lived 
 and powerful as they were, inevitably crashed. Western Civilization is no 
 different. It's coming down, but not fast enough.\n\nJensen asks: "If 
 civilization lasts another one or two hundred years, will the people then 
 say of us, 'Why did they not take it down?' Will they be as furious with us 
 as I am with those who came before and stood by? I could very well hear 
 those people who come after saying,'If they had taken it down, we would 
 still have earthworms to feed the soil. We would have redwoods, and we 
 would have oaks in California. We would still have frogs. We would still 
 have other amphibians. I am starving because there are no salmon in the 
 river, and you allowed the salmon to be killed so rich people could have 
 cheap electricity for aluminum smelters. God damn you. God damn you 
 all.'"\n\nInterviews include Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd 
 Society and writers James Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck Nation), Gord Hill 
 (500 Years of Indigenous Resistance), Waziyatawin (For Indigenous Eyes 
 Only), Lierre Keith (The Vegetarian Myth), and Stephanie McMillan (Minimum 
 Security). López interviews indigenous activists Qwatsinas (Nuxalk Nation) 
 and Rod Coronado (Pascua Yaqui); environmentalists Steven Best, Zoe Blunt, 
 Dru Oja Jay, Macdonald Stainsby, and many more.\n\nAbout Director Franklin 
 López\nHailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, López hosts “It’s the End 
 of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine," the world's most subversive 
 news show. In 2005, his post-Katrina video remix “George Bush Don’t 
 Like Black People” reached a million people and got a nod from the New 
 York Times and the Washington Post. Wired Magazine listed subMedia.TV in 
 its top ten online video sites in 2006, the same year López was hired to 
 produce Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!\n"Franklin López is a fantastically 
 talented filmmaker who has created a powerful and important film about the 
 most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the 
 planet." – Derrick Jensen\n\n"By far, the most routinely-praised 
 contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not 
 only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked 
 sense of humor … López’s work engages in constructing a new vision 
 where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, 
 where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and 
 hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again." 
 – Chris Robé, Pop Matters\n\nEND:CIV. The future depends on 
 it.\n\nEndCiv.com\nsubMedia.TV \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/08/18671568.php
SUMMARY:END:CIV new film screening
LOCATION:Unity Temple, 407 Broadway, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/08/18671568.php
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