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DESCRIPTION:Free screening\n\nThe Economics of Happiness describes a world moving 
 simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an unholy 
 alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization 
 and the consolidation of corporate\npower. At the same time, people all 
 over the world are resisting those policies and are coming together to 
 re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – 
 an economics of localization.\n\nThe film shows how globalization breeds 
 cultural self-rejection, competition and divisiveness; how it structurally 
 promotes the growth of slums and urban sprawl; how it is decimating 
 democracy. We learn about the obscene waste that results\nfrom trade for 
 the sake of trade: apples sent from the UK to South Africa to be washed and 
 waxed, then shipped back to British supermarkets; tuna caught off the coast 
 of America, flown to Japan to be processed, then flown back to the US. We 
 hear about the suicides of Indian farmers; about the demise of land-based 
 cultures in every corner of the world.\n\nThe second half of The Economics 
 of Happiness provides practical solutions. Arguing that economic 
 localization is a strategic solution multiplier that can solve our most 
 serious problems, the film spells out the policy changes needed to enable 
 local businesses to survive and prosper. We are introduced to community 
 initiatives that are moving the localization agenda 
 forward.\n\nwww.theeconomicsofhappiness.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/30/18675983.php
SUMMARY:Film: The Economics of Happiness
LOCATION:909 12th Street, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/30/18675983.php
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