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DESCRIPTION:about surplus:  http://www.atmo.se/?pageID=4&articleID=382  about the 
 screening:  http://www.videoactivism.org/screenings.html  Surplus: 
 Terrorized into being consumers  Consumer confidence has been low since 
 September 11. A quick war against Iraq was supposed to be the only way to 
 restore that confidence - and our happiness. But is shopping our salvation? 
 Do we have a choice?    The world was shocked when young protesters in 
 Seattle, Genoa and Gothenburg attacked shop windows, cars and banks.   
 Since then, media focus has shifted to the judicial aftermath of the 
 demonstrations: trials, proofs, sentences, police brutality, etc.   Surplus 
 starts during the chaotic days of the G8 summit in Genoa and sets off on a 
 world journey seeking the answer to another question: why?   *	Why is the 
 lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today?   *	How come the 
 privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness?   *	Why 
 all this emptiness despite our wealth?   Surplus’ approach is to portray 
 this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective: in the US, 
 India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba. George W Bush’s 
 famous \"shopping-speech\" calling for a war against terrorism that deters 
 the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to 
 the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve 
 Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth ‘bringing 
 people together’ while Adbuster Kalle Lasn warns that advertising 
 pollutes us mentally, that over-consumption is unsustainable and that we 
 are running out of oil.        \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27813.php
SUMMARY:Surplus, anti-consumerist screening
LOCATION:ATA, 992 Valencia at 21st
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/27813.php
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