Keeping up with the Joneses

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:02:06 -0400
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>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:44:12 -0500
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>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


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