SierraScape April - May 2006
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Trinkets and Beads

Thursday April 13, 2006 @ 7:00PM

Filmed over two years, TRINKETS & BEADS tells the story of how MAXUS (a Dallas based oil company) set out to convince the Huaorani tribe in the Amazon - to allow drilling on their land. It is a story that starts in 1957, moving through the Evangelication efforts of Rachel Saint, to the pollution of native lands by Texaco and Shell, and then the manipulation of Huaorani leaders by MAXUS. This story is how the Huaorani are tempting to survive the petroleum age. It is a heartbreaking tale, laden with harrowing images of waste and ruin, that shows how the rampant greed of oil companies has managed to destroy a once peaceful and pristine village in Ecuador.

Global Banquet, By Invitation Only

Thursday May 11, 2006 @ 7:00PM

A two part discussion of corporate farming and its global effects. Part 1 examines how corporate globalization of food threatens the livelihoods of small farmers in the US and developing countries and how free trade is the route to mounting hunger worldwide, despite an overabundance of food. Part 2 looks at mass produced, low-cost food imports to developing countries and cash crop exports that deplete natural resources and render developing countries unable to feed themselves.

Both viewings at St. Louis Public Library, SCHLAFLY branch, 225 N. Euclid, 63108. For more information on either of these events please visit progressivefilms.blogspot.com or call 314-892-2006.