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" Reclaim the Commons " Benefit Film Festival

Sunday, June 6th

2pm-8pm

$3-5 Donation (Nobodoy turned away)

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" RECLAIM THE COMMONS " WEEK BENEFIT FILM FESTIVAL

SUNDAY JUNE 6TH 2-8 PM

NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA CULTURAL CENTER

766 VALENCIA STREET , SAN FRANCISCO

$3-5 DONATION REQUESTED (NO ONE TURNED AWAY)

SPONSORED BY NEW COLLEGE ACTIVISM + SOCIAL CHANGE; CULTURE, ECOLOGY

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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY; and MEDIA STUDIES

 

Schedule:

2:00pm - Velorution

3:00pm - We Are Traffic

4:00pm - Greening of Cuba

5:00pm - Global Banquet

6:00PM - Shorts

7:00pm - Fed Up

 

Film Info:

 

Velorution: One City's Solution to the Automobile

1996

28 minutes

Produced & Directed by Bruce Petschek & Charles Phred

Churchill

 

Velorution is a dynamic half-hour portrait of Havana, Cuba, in the

period just following the collapse of the Soviet Union when, for lack

of

oil, the city adopted the bicycle as one of the dominant forms of

transportation.

 

While the battle against pollution, traffic mortality, and urban

gridlock falters in most cities, Havana has proved that the bicycle

can

move a large number of commuters. Taking the lead from some

industrialized, bicycle-friendly cities in Europe, Cuba ordered 1.2

million bicycles from China, and thus began their trek toward a

human-powered 'Velorution.'

 

Drawing in part from an earlier production, this tape was originally

intended for urban planners and bicycle enthusiasts. Now, however,

the

filmmakers have found that others who've never seen nor heard from

Cubans outside of the dominant political debates are interested in

this

off-the-beaten-path view of Cuba's cityscape.

 

 

(We aren't blocking traffic,) We Are Traffic!

A Movie about Critical Mass

1999

50 minutes

Directed by Ted White

 

We Are Traffic! chronicles the history and development of

the

" Critical Mass " bicycle movement, one of the most spirited and

dynamic

social/political movements of the apathetic 90's. In over 100

cities in

14 different countries, Critical Mass has now become a

monthly ritual

of reclaiming the streets by bicycle activists riding en masse.

 

With traffic congestion, pollution, and road rage on the rise,

growing

numbers around the world are advocating for transportation

alternatives,

and Critical Mass is at the cutting edge of this mindset.

 

We Are Traffic! tracks this leaderless, grassroots movement from its

beginnings in San Francisco in 1992 to its spread across the globe.

With

a radical direct-action approach the participants of Critical Mass

are

celebrating the bicycle and in turn taking on perhaps the century's

most

sacred cow: the automobile.

 

 

The Greening Of Cuba

1996

38 minutes

Institute for Food and Development Policy, Subterranean

Distribution

 

This video profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent

a

sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local

knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest

for

self-sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods

with

cutting edge bio-technology.

 

When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba

lost 80% of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half its

petroleum

- the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture. Challenged

with growing food for 11 million in the face of the continuing U.S.

embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming

every attempted.

 

Told in the voices of the women and men - the campesinos,

researchers,

and organic gardeners - who are leading the organic agriculture

movement, the video reminds us that developed and developing nations

alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their

people.

(In Spanish with English sub-titles.)

 

 

The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food

Producer/Director(s): Anne Macksoud, John Ankele

57 Minutes

 

The Global Banquet reveals the profound negative impact of

globalization

on our food system. Taking examples from all over the world this

video

makes “difficult” issues understandable to the non-specialist, by

exposing the underlying myths that hunger is the result of scarcity,

that small countries simply can’t feed themselves, and that only

market

driven, chemically based, industrial agriculture can feed the world,

how

Agri-business is squeezing out small farmers and how trade

liberalization, by allowing mass produced, low-cost food exports to

developing countries is destroying peoples’ ability to feed

themselves

 

 

Fed Up!

Wholesome Goodness Productions

2002

57:40

 

Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage (from archive.org)

and

featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials

and

activists, FED UP! presents an entertaining, informative and

compelling

overview of our current food production system from the Green

Revolution

to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it. FED UP!

explores

the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of

biotechnology

companies to food labeling and the links between government

officials

and major biotechnology and chemical companies. FED UP! answers many

questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution,

genetic

pollution and modern pesticides through interviews with Marc Lappé

and

Britt Bailey from the Center for Ethics and Toxics, Peter Rosset and

Anuradha Mittal from Food First, Vandana Shiva from the Research

Center

for Science, Technology and Ecology, Ignacio Chapela from UC

Berkeley's

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Martina

McGloughlin, Director of UC Davis' Biotechnology Program and many

others.

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New College of California

766 Valencia St

San Francisco

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www.newcollege.edu