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Flow-for the Love of Water opens at the Hollywood Laemmle Theaters with a Full House
Sherman Oaks, CA
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Who owns our water?
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Flow-for the Love of Water Opens at the Laemmle Hollywood this weekend
September 12th on the day of its Hollywood Playbill, Producer, Steven Starr and Host Jerry Quickey joked and laughed about the Premiere Community Showing of a vital film about the right to water and the transformation of a universal human need into pricey commodities.
In between calls of "hippy", the two discussed bottled water scams, tapping aquifers, untested bottled product and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which when ratified in December 1948 never dreamed that national corporations might deprive citizens of pure water by cornering the market and putting it on sale above the price they can purchase it.
The entire weekend at the Laemmle Theater in Hollywood, speakers will be featured and issues raised in a city that is now realizing that conservation of water is a reality, that drought is not imaginary and citizen good will and action is required. http://www.flowthefilm.com/takeaction or See the trailer and join the social network at http://freeflo.org/)
Something about not taking Colorado River Water for granted, or of realizing the story last year in the Times of a floating dead-zone of plastic in our Oceans is not imaginary is particularly important in a region where so many people are dependent on each other for the delivery of food, the use of resources, and for safety and access in an emergency, "Flow, for the Love of Water" is not just entertaining, but like "An Inconvenient Truth" eye opening and life changing.
Reviewed by USA Today as important, Oscilloscope is distributing this often poorly described award winner by Irena Salina. Whether covering corporate misadventures or Prozac mutant frogs, the issue in the Earth's remainingly pure reserves of H2O is whether the corporatization of this vital resource can continue? Just who owns our water anyway?
For more information, attend the screenings this weekend. Or go to www.flowthefilm.com for information.
Beyond the Surface will post the interview for two weeks on KFPK's audio archives.
Other local background notes:
Rotary International has a "Fragile Earth" Issue on Water Development Resources.
California's Department of Education approved a "Friends of the UN" Comic Book for High School which features the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created December 10, 1948. DC Comic's new consultant, Mr. Robinson has just curated a NYC show on the UDHR in 2007.
This coming week is "World Water Monitoring Day" September 18th. A scientific awareness and educational event that takes place in school communities all over the planet, this program like the EPA's "Adopt a Watershed" program, thrives because of both community service elements by teachers and school children.
Next week, collectors will start by measuring water and sending in sample results for study- what great timing that Starr and Salina should show their work this Fall during "Back to School" week when so many children are being encouraged in Los Angeles to be aware of drought, conservation, turning in plastic bags, and recycling.
Generation Earth, Tree People, CIWMB, and DPW are working together with regional and local partners to clean up the river of waste and along with new transportation, air quality, and water resource considerations, are teaming together to cope with toxins, polluters and solutions.
What a vital issue to have a chance to reconsider how we use water instead of justifying our wasteful habits and vanities? Fall's a great time to wake up, reuse, reconsider, and take action conscientiously.
By picking up a beach with Heal the Bay on a community action day or by volunteering next week (Sept 18-21) at the Route 66 Rendez-Vous "New Education Options" booth on Court St., you can come out to socialize and make a change in your neighborhood.
Or get on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's website and learn how to recycle No. 2 and No. 4 plastic bags from his web referral links or the American Plastic Association's referral site.
Come out and see the film or look for a way you can join your Neighborhood Council in conserving water, not wasting water, and start this September by sending friends to see the film debut.
It's something the Mayor can't do for us--we have to become aware of the issues we are facing. Then we can start to address them.
September 12th on the day of its Hollywood Playbill, Producer, Steven Starr and Host Jerry Quickey joked and laughed about the Premiere Community Showing of a vital film about the right to water and the transformation of a universal human need into pricey commodities.
In between calls of "hippy", the two discussed bottled water scams, tapping aquifers, untested bottled product and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which when ratified in December 1948 never dreamed that national corporations might deprive citizens of pure water by cornering the market and putting it on sale above the price they can purchase it.
The entire weekend at the Laemmle Theater in Hollywood, speakers will be featured and issues raised in a city that is now realizing that conservation of water is a reality, that drought is not imaginary and citizen good will and action is required. http://www.flowthefilm.com/takeaction or See the trailer and join the social network at http://freeflo.org/)
Something about not taking Colorado River Water for granted, or of realizing the story last year in the Times of a floating dead-zone of plastic in our Oceans is not imaginary is particularly important in a region where so many people are dependent on each other for the delivery of food, the use of resources, and for safety and access in an emergency, "Flow, for the Love of Water" is not just entertaining, but like "An Inconvenient Truth" eye opening and life changing.
Reviewed by USA Today as important, Oscilloscope is distributing this often poorly described award winner by Irena Salina. Whether covering corporate misadventures or Prozac mutant frogs, the issue in the Earth's remainingly pure reserves of H2O is whether the corporatization of this vital resource can continue? Just who owns our water anyway?
For more information, attend the screenings this weekend. Or go to www.flowthefilm.com for information.
Beyond the Surface will post the interview for two weeks on KFPK's audio archives.
Other local background notes:
Rotary International has a "Fragile Earth" Issue on Water Development Resources.
California's Department of Education approved a "Friends of the UN" Comic Book for High School which features the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created December 10, 1948. DC Comic's new consultant, Mr. Robinson has just curated a NYC show on the UDHR in 2007.
This coming week is "World Water Monitoring Day" September 18th. A scientific awareness and educational event that takes place in school communities all over the planet, this program like the EPA's "Adopt a Watershed" program, thrives because of both community service elements by teachers and school children.
Next week, collectors will start by measuring water and sending in sample results for study- what great timing that Starr and Salina should show their work this Fall during "Back to School" week when so many children are being encouraged in Los Angeles to be aware of drought, conservation, turning in plastic bags, and recycling.
Generation Earth, Tree People, CIWMB, and DPW are working together with regional and local partners to clean up the river of waste and along with new transportation, air quality, and water resource considerations, are teaming together to cope with toxins, polluters and solutions.
What a vital issue to have a chance to reconsider how we use water instead of justifying our wasteful habits and vanities? Fall's a great time to wake up, reuse, reconsider, and take action conscientiously.
By picking up a beach with Heal the Bay on a community action day or by volunteering next week (Sept 18-21) at the Route 66 Rendez-Vous "New Education Options" booth on Court St., you can come out to socialize and make a change in your neighborhood.
Or get on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's website and learn how to recycle No. 2 and No. 4 plastic bags from his web referral links or the American Plastic Association's referral site.
Come out and see the film or look for a way you can join your Neighborhood Council in conserving water, not wasting water, and start this September by sending friends to see the film debut.
It's something the Mayor can't do for us--we have to become aware of the issues we are facing. Then we can start to address them.
Bo Lebo
Writer
New Health Options
Sherman Oaks, CA
818-742-5099
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