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>X-Sender: dcaulfield#ns.sympatico.ca@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:44:12 -0500 >To: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca >From: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca (Dave Caulfield) >Subject: Keeping up with the Joneses > >Buyers of goods and/or services: > >The powers-that-be have deemed it necessary that while cinema-PIRGatory >airs AFFLUENZA, that I should be suffering from influenza. I've been >feeling rather nasty since Saturday evening, so if you'll forgive me, I'm >going to keep this brief. > >Hope to see you all at 8 pm on Tuesday night in the McMechan Room of the >Killam for cinema-PIRG's screening of AFFLUENZA. Having been (last week) to >both the Climate Change Workshop at the lovely and spacious Holiday Inn >Dartmouth and Saral Sarkar's discussion of the attainability of >sustainability, this subject of this film seems to be on the tip of many a >tongue: personal overconsumption, its effects on society, the environment >and individual happiness. > >The film is pretty funny in spots, pretty serious in others as it looks at >the North American passion for shopping and how it leads to debt and stress >for communities, the continent and the world. Do we own our stuff? Or does >it own us? > >Please note: This is the last film of the term. Provided there's interest, >we'll start up again sometime in mid-January. > >Again: >Tuesday night, 8 pm >McMechan Room, Killam Library >AFFLUENZA > >The film's about an hour long. > >Hope to see you all there and don't hesitate to email me if you've got >questions. > >Dave Caulfield >cinema-PIRG > nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- TELL A FRIEND! The more people who join sust-mar, the more interesting and diverse views we'll see ... and more people to read *your* messages. So ... pssssst! Pass it on ... To join sust-mar just send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar" (without the quotes)
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