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DESCRIPTION:A film screening of Franklin Lopez' new film, End:Civ. The filmmaker will 
 be at the screening as part of his nationwide tour.\n\nThis event is free, 
 but donations are accepted and strongly encouraged!\n\nEND:CIV\n\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\n\nhttp://www.endciv.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/17/18672313.php
SUMMARY:End:Civ Film Screening
LOCATION:C.A.F.E. infoshop\n935 F ST\nFresno, CA 93706
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/17/18672313.php
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