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RESISTANCE CINEMA Presents “BLUE GOLD” Produced, written, and directed by SAM BOZZO, Executive Producers, MARK ACHBAR and SI LITVINOFF, narrated by MALCOLM MCDOWELL, based on the book by MAUDE BARLOW and TONY CLARKE, Winner 2009 Best Environmental Film, Vancouver International Film Festival,   (2008, 90 minutes)

 

WHEN:  Sunday July 26th 2009, 1:15pm

WHERE: Community Church of NY, Gallery Room, 28 East 35th st. @ Park ave.

ADMISSION:  Free, donations appreciated

 

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

 

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

 

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive? 

Inspired by the book by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Sam Bozzo has created a film which aims to energize the world around this issue in the same way that Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" did for global warming. Alarmist at times, the film is nevertheless invaluable in stirring public consciousness and offering solutions to an unavoidable major world problem.