Title: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming?Location: Room PE 250, University of LethbridgeLink out: Click hereDescription: NOTICE OF A SPECIAL SESSION JOINTLY HOSTED BY:
SACPA-on-CAMPUS
LPIRG
STUDENTS’ UNION
UNIVERSITY of LETHBRIDGE
Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:00-9:00 pm at Room PE 250
Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming?
Scientists are often so focussed on measuring the evidence required to
determine how things work that they either forget or do not have time for the needs of public education, and the directions the nation will take in applying the knowledge gained by science. James Hoggan and …

Title: Cinema Politica – Aristide and the Endless RevolutionLocation: Andy’s Place (AH100), Anderson Hall, University of LethbridgeLink out: Click hereDescription: Nicolas Rossier / USA / 2006 / 82 min / English, French and Creole w/ Eng s.t.
One hour away from Miami the elected President of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation was twice removed from office with the complicity of the international community. “ARSITIDE and the Endless Revolution” is a feature documentary that explores through investigative lenses the events that led to the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected President …

Title: A Crude Awakening: The Oil CrashLocation: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union Building, University of LethbridgeLink out: Click hereDescription: Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack / Switzerland / 2006 / 85 min
OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap …

Title: Cinema Politica – Silhouette CityLocation: Turcotte Hall – TH204, University of LethbridgeLink out: Click hereDescription: Michael W. Wilson and Natalie Zimmerman / USA / 2009 / 88 min
SILHOUETTE CITY is an immersive journey through the recent history of American apocalypticism. Using archival video, movement propaganda and original investigative material, the film tracks the movement of apocalyptic Christian nationalism and its most extreme adherents from the margins to the mainstream, the military and beyond.
In the midst of a sudden loss of power on the political right and a destabilizing economic …