The Story of Stuff takes you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture -- from resource extraction to iPod incineration. We will begin by watching this 20- minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of production, consumption, and waste. It’ll teach you something, make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all your stuff.

This event is FREE! 

(2009, dir Joe Berlinger, 105 mins, http://CrudeTheMovie.com/)

More than three years in the making by distinguished filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster), CRUDE is a high-stakes David vs. Goliath legal drama with 30,000 indigenous people and campesinos facing down the 5th largest corporation on the planet. It chronicles the epic battle to hold Chevron (formerly Texaco) accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest – an environmental tragedy experts call "the Amazon Chernobyl."

International Day of Climate Action in *Halifax*

Join friends and neighbours in HRM for a family-friendly get-together. Festivities will begin at 2 p.m. and at *3:50 p.m.* we will join together for a collective action to show our support for strong government leadership and action on climate change. *Bring a sign* with a drawing or painting of what/who you’re concerned about. Come join us on the Common! Megan Leslie will be speaking, Mayor Kelly and Premier Dexter have been invited to speak, and music will be playing.

We are on *Facebook*: search the event “International Day of Climate Action
– Halifax, NS” (join for updates!)

For the sixth anniversary of the memorable day when we all realized that we consume too much, we will celebrate by turning the lights out! All acoustic music, kid-powered fun, and community meals are what make remembering the blackout such a delight.

Solidarity with Amazonian Peoples!

Demonstration and information picket in front of the Peruvian Embassy.

Come out to demonstrate in order to keep international attention focused
on Peru! Help make sure that the government of Peru responds to the
demands that are being made by Amazonian Indigenous communities!

Indigenous led protests against new “Free Trade” agreements in Peru have
been met with brutal violence by the Peruvian government. The Peruvian
police and military murdered up to 100 protesters on June 5/6 2009, and are
continuing to terrorize people under a declared 'State of Emergency' while
blaming the protesters for the violence. The Peruvian government considers