If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front will be screened twice during the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival:
Thursday 9th Jun at 15:30 - 17:29 Sheffield Central Library Theatre
Saturday 11th Jun at 13:35 - 15:49 Showroom 3, screening with UK Uncut + Extended Q&A (129mins)
There will also a discussion of the film on Saturday 11 June 2011 at 11:45 in The Crucible Studio.
Thursday 9th Jun at 15:30 - 17:29 Sheffield Central Library Theatre
Saturday 11th Jun at 13:35 - 15:49 Showroom 3, screening with UK Uncut + Extended Q&A (129mins)
There will also a discussion of the film on Saturday 11 June 2011 at 11:45 in The Crucible Studio.
George W Bush’s government called them the number one domestic terrorism threat. Others called them tree huggers. For a number of years from the mid 90s, the Earth Liberation Front conducted a campaign of arson attacks against a wide range of companies they considered a threat to the environment, including timber factories, an SUV dealership and a ski lodge. The fact that no one was ever hurt did little to deter the tenacity of investigators determined to track the culprits down. Former member Daniel McGowan had long since hung up his ELF hat, and settled down to work in a Manhattan charity, when he was arrested one day by the FBI. He’s now under house arrest, facing life in prison. Through the story of McGowan’s activism, radicalization, and eventual disenchantment, and with the use of remarkable archive, director Marshall Curry shines a light on a battle in which good and evil are far from clearly defined.
Film web site:
http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/
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http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/
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Pulp Hemp Not Trees.
18.07.2011 06:24
The magic of hemp is that it can literally save Canada's forests, and provide an organic non-polluted product. No other plant can do that. Hemp paper is much best in quality compared to wood pulp paper, and Hemp can literally replace all plastics, which is an oil derived product that is polluting the world where ever it goes, and in todays Oceans there is huge dead areas awash with plastic throw aways.
Being an organic plant, hemp is bio-recyclable, and leaves the world in a vibrant livable way rather than a polluted mess. Trouble is hemp was demonized by the oil monopolies during the twenties of last century because the Oil companies wanted the market space that hemp occupied.
That began the Lies that hemp and Sativa were some how illegal, harmful, and you would be a criminal if you used it. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and we can see the Oil derived products are the real ecological crime as it is polluting the world beyond natures ability to sustain organic balance of life, and in too many ways to name in this short article. Legalize Hemp, and Sativa Cannibis, as a organic agricultural crop that can sustain the world and its ecological green economy. That can save all forests in the world, from the pulp clear cutting, and end the dependence of oil derived products that are polluting the planet.
john