Thursdays, 1-2pm
Geography Room 500
20th September – The UTAS Fair Trade Campaign
27th Sept – Introduction to Marxism – Historical Materialism, the Sweep of Human History
4th October – The Russian Revolution – Lessons From History
All welcome!
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Environment Film Festival
Thursday 27th – Saturday 29th September
All films shown on the big screen at the Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart
Festival ticket (entry to all films): $20 / $12 conc / $40 solidarity
Or individual sessions: $10 / $6 conc
Vegetarian meal available each night at 6:30pm for $6 / 4 conc
Fundraiser for Green Left Weekly
Program:
Thursday 27th September, 7pm. `Bimblebox' and `The Sky is Pink'
Friday 28th September, 7pm. `The Island President'
Saturday 29th September, 5pm, `Growing Change: a journey inside Venezuela's food revolution'
Saturday, 29th September, 7pm, `End of the Line'
Email hobart@socialist-alliance.org to reserve tickets or for more info.
Bimblebox
A documentary from the front lines of Australia's battle against coal and gas expansion
Michael Cusack O'Connell, 2012 (Australia)
1 hour 12 mins
At this critical time, when so much coal and coal seam gas expansion is planned in Australia, this film aims to win the hearts and minds of the people, exposing the destructiveness of this industry to our climate, communities and environment. It tells the stories of the people fighting for their homes and culture.
"Bimblebox" is about much more than the Nature Refuge in Western Central Queensland, facing destruction to make way for Clive Palmer's China First Coal mine. It is a cautionary tale, exposing the effects of mining in the Hunter Valley and the Illawarra, warning what might be in store for other regions if planned expansions of the coal and CSG industries go ahead.
Dramatic footage is shown of the encroachment of mining onto agricultural land, and interviews with Hunter Valley, Illawarra, Bowen Basin and Darling Downs residents illuminate the social, economic, environmental and health impacts of mining in those regions.
View the trailer at: http://bimbleboxdocumentary.com/
The Sky is Pink
(United States, 2012, 18 minutes)
An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state.
The Island President
Jon Shenk, 2011 (USA)
1 hour 30 mins
On 7 February 2012, Mohamed Nasheed resigned the presidency of the Maldives under the threat of violence in a coup d'etat perpetrated by security forces loyal to the former dictator. This film is the story of his first year in office.
Jon Shenk's "The Island President" is the story of a president confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced — the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1,200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The Island President captures Nasheed's first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about his strategies — leveraging the Maldives' underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.
View the trailer at: http://theislandpresident.com/
Growing Change: a journey inside Venezuela's food revolution
(Australia, 2011, 60 mins)
Growing Change is an inspiring documentary that looks at one of the most exciting experiments in the world to grow a fair and sustainable food system.
In Venezuela, from fishing villages to cacao plantations to urban gardens, a growing social movement is showing what's possible when communities, not corporations, start to take control of food.
Winner of the Shark Island Foundation Award for Best Social Impact Documentary
View the trailer at: http://www.growingchange.com.au/
End of the Line
(United Kingdom, 2010, 85 mins)
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.
Heard about the Super-Trawler heading to Tasmania? Want to find out about the devastating consequences of overfishing? This award-winning film has been having a big impact since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Don't miss this chance to see it.
http://endoftheline.com/film
