Inform Yourself: Documentary Series
This week's theme is our environment. The High Priority Party will form our Environmental Policy based on information and not political stances. The issue of the best energy sources (coal, oil, solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear.), global warming/climate change, pollution, conservation, and the most important, water is gathering passionate charges for immediate action. This year alone has seen multiple oil spills in the Great Lake Regions, the Gulf of Mexico (again), the Mississippi River, the Puget Sound in Washington State, and I am sure I have missed a few. These spills should be the wake up call for everyone for two reasons: if we fail to protect our precious water sources, there will be scarce fresh drinking water sources for the future generations. Second, we need to finally address our dependence on big Coal, and Big Oil... With that said, take out your notebooks and study this week's films. Remember to subscribe to Netflix, as all our feature films will be uploaded onsite. This educational exercise should not be an expensive one!
1. First, Last Call at the Oasis (2011) is a documentary on the world's water crisis. It will help viewers become aware of what is at hand now and in the future in terms of water.
Our second feature, Pandora's Promise (2013), maybe the more important of the two at the moment. Faced with misleading information and propaganda about where we get our energy, Big Oil & Coal, has won both in terms of rewards and contracts. Our environment has suffered because of this and so, it is High Time, to re-evaluate our commitment to oil, coal, and gas as our Climate changes and our waterways are polluted. Much is at stake and nothing less than the truth is needed. Here, the High Party finds historical & current evidence to support Nuclear Power.
On a lighter note, a third movie, which is not a documentary, but a Russian-English film, attempts to shed light on the use of propaganda to sway the public. Watch the film, Branded (2012), and help yourself identify the hidden forces controlling your world.
Thank you for viewing!
-Cowan Amaye-Obu
This week's theme is our environment. The High Priority Party will form our Environmental Policy based on information and not political stances. The issue of the best energy sources (coal, oil, solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear.), global warming/climate change, pollution, conservation, and the most important, water is gathering passionate charges for immediate action. This year alone has seen multiple oil spills in the Great Lake Regions, the Gulf of Mexico (again), the Mississippi River, the Puget Sound in Washington State, and I am sure I have missed a few. These spills should be the wake up call for everyone for two reasons: if we fail to protect our precious water sources, there will be scarce fresh drinking water sources for the future generations. Second, we need to finally address our dependence on big Coal, and Big Oil... With that said, take out your notebooks and study this week's films. Remember to subscribe to Netflix, as all our feature films will be uploaded onsite. This educational exercise should not be an expensive one!
1. First, Last Call at the Oasis (2011) is a documentary on the world's water crisis. It will help viewers become aware of what is at hand now and in the future in terms of water.
On a lighter note, a third movie, which is not a documentary, but a Russian-English film, attempts to shed light on the use of propaganda to sway the public. Watch the film, Branded (2012), and help yourself identify the hidden forces controlling your world.
Thank you for viewing!
-Cowan Amaye-Obu
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