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  • From: Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Avatar eco movie ~ A message & movement to save Planet Earth?
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:51:18 -0800 (PST)

LL wrote:
 
"That's real grassroots environmental activism "saving their ancestral
lands from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures"
where the real rubber meets the real road. But they'll never make a
movie about that nor will it get adequate coverage in the media,
like make front page news in US newspapers...but that silly movie will,
because... its all about greed and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$,
as usual."
 
 
After the hoopla I had to see what this flick was all about.  It was our
anniversary, and we make it to the movies about once every other year, so I
thought, eh, what the heck.  (I think our last trip was the 3rd installment
of The Lord of the Rings...)  In short, Avatar wasn't real rubber meeting
real road, but if you left untouched by its message you probably depend on a
paycheck from Boise Cascade, or get your news exclusively from Rush Limbaugh. 

 
Toby pointed out not too long ago that Ellen Page was thinking
permaculturally, as a celebrity with some influence, when she brought a lot
of attention to the movement on the Ellen Degeneres show.  Well, whether or
not James Cameron is a permie, that movie has now influenced more minds in (I
would assume) positive ways than the permaculture movement has in sum total
since 1978.
 
That level of influence is hard to achieve without that kind of mainstream
exposure, like it or not.  Lawrence, you don't need to see it to understand
the problem; I doubt anyone reading this does.  But we use the tools we have,
right?
 
I think this movie was a good one on which to end my visits to the theatre
for good...
 
Tripp out.




The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
 

--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:


From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Avatar eco movie ~ A message & movement to save
Planet Earth?
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 9:18 AM


Olive Tree wrote:
>
> Here's a good sounding plan to use the Avatar movie, which has a
> pretty impressive environmental message for a huge corporate film, to
> support real grassroots environmental activism!

> Anyone here use facebook??

Of course not but I do read Democracy Now. See below.
Who is the owner of that Facebook page? Someone from Hollywood?
connected with production of that movie?

Regarding the following from their blog:
"Avatar is a beautiful, brilliant fictional story about another planet
where the native population wins victory to save their homeland from
environmental destruction by greedy humans. But here on planet Earth,
indigenous peoples are also struggling to save their ancestral lands
from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures. They
need more help!"

Instead of spending their money on a movie ticket they could instead
send it to real environmental activists in El Salvador:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/29/anti_mining_activists_killed_in_el

Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador
Doraweb
For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been
assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora
“Alicia” Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children
was also injured in the shooting. Sorto was an active member of the
Cabañas Environment Committee, which has campaigned against the
reopening of a gold mine owned by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining
Company. [includes rush transcript]

That's real grassroots environmental activism "saving their ancestral
lands from destruction by corporate exploitation and invading cultures"
where the real rubber meets the real road. But they'll never make a
movie about that nor will it get adequate coverage in the media,
like make front page news in US newspapers...but that silly movie will,
because... its all about greed and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$,
as usual.

> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> I believe that Avatar is an amazing teachable moment for Earth
> activism.

An amazing opportunity for them to teach more fools to part with their
hard earned money to make the moviemakers richer selling yet another
uninteresting, culturally deprived product, in this case an alleged
eco-cartoon.

Just another example of the hollywood corporate socialism entitlement
program, a high dollar movie with high pressure promotion salted with
buzzwords to reach that segment of the viewer market with ever growing
numbers of well intentioned people who are environmentally aware
and truly concerned about human rights issues and events.

I'd sooner believe that monsanto was really trying to save the earth for
organic farmers instead of ruining it promoting widespread use of their
disgusting products.
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Tripp Tibbetts wrote:

> I think this movie was a good one on which to end my visits to the theatre
> for good...

You time is valuable and you need to budget it wisely. Time spent on the
computer engulfs previous time at the TV or at movies, I expect.

I never go nor do I rent them or subscribe to NFx. Don't have TV either,
refused to buy a converter box. What a holiday. Am back where I was
before there was any TV, fortunately raised without on in the house.
Instead classical music and opera. Every now and then I had to play 78
rpm of the Okeh Laughing Record and the song Oats Peas Beans and Barley
Grow....that ought to date me...




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