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| Wed. Sept. 24 | We are proud to introduce this new film at Latin America Forum called "The power of community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil". Cuba, a country who has had to figure out how to survive with less due to an economic blocade imposed by the U.S. for nearly 50 years now is a labratory for what the world can learn after "peak oil". When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis....feeding the population.... and an ongoing challenge: how th create a new low energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil fuel intensive farming to small, less intensive organic farms and urban gardens. Through cooperation, conservation and community this film tells the story in their own words. The Cuban story of a small nation with its back against the wall is not one of just individual achievement, but of the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge. A lesson for the world. Free. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. Oak Bend Branch library |
| Wed. Oct. 1 | Showing of the documentary "La Sierra". This film gives a rare glimpse into the effects of Globalization at the micro level from a nation at war for over 50 years- Colombia. From the gritty streets of Medellin, the cocaine capitol of the world, this award winning film portrays three of La Sierra's inhabitants. A paramilitary leader at 22 years old, Edison, a self-professed killer and father of six children by six women, his friends include gang soldier Jesus, ready for death at any moment, and Cielo, only 17 and already a mother with a boyfriend in prison. Here, lives are defined by drugs, guns and violence. A state of perpetual urban warfare exists, with paramilitary gangs, leftist guerrillas and the US sponsored Colombian military battling continually for power and control. Free. Discussion to follow. 7pm. Oak Bend Branch library. |
| Wed. Oct. 8 | Showing of the documentary "Aristide and the Endless Revolution". An hour south of Miami is the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. In 2004, the democratically elected president Jean- Bertrand Aristide was taken against his will from Haiti in an American helicopter. He was sent to Africa on an American registered plane and told never to come back again. Having been deposed once with CIA backing in 1991, the 2004 coup d'etat was not the first American intervention into Haitian politics, nor will it likely be the last. Featuring exclusive interviews with Aristide, commentary from a wide range of supporters and critics, and searing glimses inside strife torn Haiti, this award winning documentary exposes the tangled web of hope, deciet, and political violence that has brought the world's first free black republic to its knees. Free. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. Oak Bend Branch library. |
| Wed. Oct. 29 | We are proud to introduce this new film at Latin America Forum, "Cocalero". This is the term for coca leaf growers from Peru, Colombia and Bolivia. This film chronicles the meteoric rise of Evo Morales as he travels in his political campaign to become the first president of Bolivia from indigenous descent. This documentary centers on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's effort (urged by the U.S.) to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, the Aymara Indian named Evo Morales. Free. Discussion to follow. 7pm. Oak Bend Branch library. |