Jan. 13: Special Screening of Powerful New Film: "The Economics of Happiness" in Berkeley TONIGHT
Join Bay Localize at the David Brower Center tonight, Thursday, Jan. 13, for a special screening of "The Economics of Happiness" -
a new documentary film by the International Society for Ecology &
Culture about the worldwide movement for economic localization.
The
film features a chorus of voices calling for systemic economic change,
including Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Richard Heinberg,
Rob Hopkins, Juliet Schor, Zac Goldsmith, Bill McKibben, and Samdhong
Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of Tibet's government in exile.
The
film will be followed by a panel discussion with special guests
including the film's director Helena Norberg-Hodge, Richard Heinberg of
Post Carbon Institute, Jenny Kassan of the Sustainable Economies Law
Center, Rosa González of Bay Localize and Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food
First. The discussion will focus on local initiatives related to the
film.
Bay Localize is a key co-sponsor of this event.
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 13, 6:30 to 10 pm
(Doors open at 6 p.m.)
(Doors open at 6 p.m.)
WHERE: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Bay
Localize's Rosa Esperanza González is a popular educator, writer and
visual and performing artist. She serves as the Green Academy Program
Manager at Green for All, and recently served as coordinator of popular
education for the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action. She is also a member of headRush, a psycho-political performance
and popular education crew dedicated to inspiring working class
communities through a blend of spoken word and teatro-style political
satire.
Organizational partners:
Post Carbon Institute, Bay Localize, Sustainable Economies Law Center,
Bay Area Community Exchange, Food First, Shareable.net, Other Worlds,
Transition Albany, Berkeley Student Food Collective, the Ecology Center
and others.
Suggested donation: $15, however, no one will be turned away.
Film Synopsis:
Going local is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world - our ecosystems, our societies and ourselves.
Economic
globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of
big business and banking. It also has worsened nearly every problem we
face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species
extinction; financial instability; and unemployment. There are personal
costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming
increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we
face mounting pressures at work.
"The Economics of Happiness"
describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On
the one hand, government and big business continue to promote
globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same
time, all around the world people are resisting those policies,
demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance - and, far from the old
institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different
future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale,
ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of
localization.
For more information, visit the film's website.
About Bay Localize
We catalyze the emergence of a regional, self-reliant economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities. Visit baylocalize.org.
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