All screenings will be held the THIRD THURSDAY of each month at 6 P.M.
at the Ruta Maya Coffee House located at 3601 South Congress Ave., Austin,
TX 78704.
A
Question of Power: February
21st
A QUESTION OF POWER (1986) is a moving and informative documentary history
of the nuclear power controversy and the U.S. antinuclear power movement.
Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film focuses on 35 years of grassroots opposition
to the “peaceful atom” in California, where the antinuclear
power movement was born (in 1959-64 over the proposed Bodega Bay Atomic
Park), and reached its peak in 1981 with the protests over the Diablo
Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The documentary combines inspirational portraits
of nuclear opponents with authoritative testimony and investigative reporting.
Activists and educators alike have referred to A QUESTION OF POWER as
the definitive film history of the antinuclear
Green:
The New Red, White & Blue:
March 20th
Meet Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist who travels the globe
in a quest to unravel the tangled web of energy consumption. Join Friedman
as he visits the front lines of a 'green' revolution that is just taking
shape – from the offices of Internet giant Google to a new Wal-Mart
prototype green superstore. Then, learn why it makes good business sense
to go green. On this environmentally friendly adventure, watch Friedman
find solutions to global warming as America embraces the idea that green
is the new red, white and blue.
Kilowatt
Ours:
Thursday, April 17th
Kilowatt Ours reveals the consequences of our coal powered conomy.
The film opens with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy speech
in which Cheney makes the claim that America needs nearly 1900 new power
plants in the next 20 years to meet projected electricity demands. From
here, filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines
of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers
solutions to America's energy related problems.