Don’t take another bite ’till you see this.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009.

12:30 p.m. Film

Food, Inc. (2009)

HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE FOOD YOU BUY AT LOCAL SUPERMARKETS?

Other than the “hunter-gatherers” of long ago, all human societies produce food. What characterizes our industrialized food system?

Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year – just one cost of the industrialized food production system basic to contemporary life in the United States? ”We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E.coli, the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.”

Come see Food, Inc. – expose’ of what we eat and how it is produced and who benefits. (94 minutes.)

Link for study: http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php

November 6, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The Public Commons & Access to Water

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009.
12:30 p.m. Film
FLOW: For Love of Water 2008

Introduction/Discussion by NWC Government Professor Donna Rhea

As suggested by W. B. Auden

“Thousands have lived without love; not one without water.”

Irena Salina’s documentary investigates the most important political and environmental situation of the 21st Century – the World Water Crisis. In this expose’ we travel to Bolivia, South Africa, India, and Michigan and in all these places, witness the the essential issues in the” water wars” - privatization, pollution and profit. The film shows people around the world who are being harmed by corporations which claim rights over their water.

An Award-Wining Film that profiles what Michael Klare calls “resource wars”. (93 minutes)

Link for study: http://www.flowthefilm.com/

October 29, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

“Fog of War”: Robert McNamara “Rethinks”

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

12:30 p.m.

Oscar-winning Film

“Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara”

REFLECTIONS and DISCUSSION

with Gisela Ables, Ph.D. NWC History Professor and Department Chair

In this 2004 documentary Robert McNamara, a key architect of the US war in Vietnam, speaks retrospectively in assessment of the American and Johnson administration policy in Southeast Asia. Robert McNamara (1916 – 2009) died this past summer. As the United States faces questions about Afghanistan, we can ask are there parallels in the military experience of the U.S. in the 1960’s with our current situation? NOTE: “Fog of war” describes an ambiguity in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.Related documentary video online:

“Rethink Afghanistan”: http://rethinkafghanistan.com/videos.php

The REEL is FREE & OPEN TO ALL HCC STUDENTS, FACULTY & FRIENDS.