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FURY FOR THE SOUND: The Women at Clayoquot Sun Apr 11, 2 pm, City Cinema, Charlottetown All seats $3.00 Presented by Earth Action Dir: Shelley Wine, Canada, 1997, 86 min. Music by Bob Bossin, Marie-Lynn Hammond, Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, Jane Siberry, The Wyrd Sisters "A truly amazing documentary... it is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion," says Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In 1993 hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot Sound in BC were arrested and jailed for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest. There is a revolution going on, of individuals no longer willing to impassively watch the Earth being destroyed. And this revolution is being led largely by women - it's estimated 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women. In FURY FOR THE SOUND we watch women in their 70's and 80's being carted off alongside pink-haired teenagers; we see 8-year-old children debating uniformed RCMP, and women resisting arrest by suspending themselves from trees. A moving account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. As the story unfolds, it becomes increasingly difficult to dodge the filmaker's (a Clayoquot arrestee) underlying challenge: is there anything which we care enough about to place before all else? For, as one protestor said, "everything is on the line...even your personal freedom." ******************************** Sharon Labchuk Earth Action 81 Prince Street Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4R3 Phone: 902-368-7337 / 621-0719 Fax: 902-621-0719 slabchuk@isn.net -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with "unsubscribe sust-mar" (without quotes) as the body of your message. To post a message to sust-mar subscribers, send it to <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca> Posts that are off-topic or excessive length (10K) will be rejected. For help contact <sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
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