Film - Mine Your Own Business in Ottawa, May 29th
Date: May 29, 2007, 7 PM
Place: Ottawa Public Library, (Metcalfe at Laurier)
Admission: $6.00
Press passes available upon request
On May 29, 2007, Ottawa will have opportunity to see the powerful new film, "Mine Your Own Business", a film about the dark side of environmentalism.
The film screening, at the Ottawa Public Library, is sponsored by the Free-Thinking Film Society, (formerly the Conservative Film Society), a new organization that plans to regularly bring in films of a Libertarian/Conservative bent.
"Mine Your Own Business" exposes the dark side of environmentalism. The documentary hacks away at the cozy image of environmentalists' as well meaning, harmless activists. *Mine Your Own Business* is the first documentary which asks the hard questions of foreigners who lead campaigns to "save" remote areas from development. Their answers are often disturbing, with racist overtones, but we, in the west, blindly support such campaigns that want to keep people in poverty. Now for the first time "Mine Your Own Business" asks local people about their lives and what they want for the future.
Their answers are very often different from what the foreign environmentalists say and what is reported in the mainstream international media.
"Mine Your Own Business" is a journey through the dark side of environmentalism. It demolishes the cozy consensus that environmentalists are well meaning agenda free activists and shows them to be anti-development ideologues who think the poor are happy being poor and don't want the development that we, in the west, take for granted.
"Mine Your Own Business" goes beyond the voice of the foreign environmentalists that we so often hear in the media and meets those who will be most affected by these projects and the well-run campaigns against them.
"Mine Your Own Business" follows George, a 23-year-old unemployed miner from northern Romania whose life has been put on hold after an anti-mining campaign orchestrated by foreign environmentalists. George explains his hopes and dreams for the future - which are different from those prescribed for him by foreign environmentalists. He then travels to other impoverished communities in Madagascar and Chile who are also desperately waiting for large mining projects. George finds people similar to himself with similar hopes and dreams of a decent job and house and a decent education and better life for their children.
For more information, please visit www.mineyourownbusiness.org, or email us at fred.litwin@gmail.com
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3 Comments:
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I agree with you that there certainly is a dark side to environmentalism.
Many activists hold to the theory that the best way to preserve the earth is to get rid of all human life on this planet (of course excluding themselves in the process). Just all other humans are expendable.
It's the same dark side that we see with the expansion of some aspects of western medicine. We have some good things, but most of the time if war and poverty are removed from the picture foreign countries do much better without our western pharmaceutical mindset.
M.K.
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