network of moms passionate about taking back the planet!
Film Recommendations
Films we are showing this month at the co-op:
FLOW - For the Love of Water (2008) - Great film to share with the kids about the biggest issue facing their generation! This covers the critical reality of the privitization of water around the world, water rights, plastic bottle use and more. Just released!
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) When Hurricane Katrina ravaged America's Gulf Coast, it laid bare an uncomfortable reality-America is not only far from the world's wealthiest nation; it is crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt. Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all, there's always more credit! Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer. By turns hilarious and profoundly disturbing, Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most of us.
Consuming Kids:The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.
Affluenza (2006)
It's a relatively new word in the vocabulary of America, the idea that we are raising a generation of kids who are spoiled, materialistic, and bored; kids who define success and themselves by possessions, especially brand-names; kids especially susceptible to advertising; kids who are often in debt by the time they leave college. According to one survey, 93 percent of teenage girls say shopping is their favorite pastime. "Rich kids, middle class kids, very poor kids ALL get conditioned to feel like they gotta have this stuff in order to be somebody," says John De Graaf, author of the book "Affluenza." Shopping fever is one symptom, but there is a cure. Watch, "Affluenza."
The Corpoation (2003)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
FLOW - For the Love of Water (2008) - Great film to share with the kids about the biggest issue facing their generation! This covers the critical reality of the privitization of water around the world, water rights, plastic bottle use and more. Just released!
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) When Hurricane Katrina ravaged America's Gulf Coast, it laid bare an uncomfortable reality-America is not only far from the world's wealthiest nation; it is crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt. Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all, there's always more credit! Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer. By turns hilarious and profoundly disturbing, Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most of us.
Consuming Kids:The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.
Affluenza (2006)
It's a relatively new word in the vocabulary of America, the idea that we are raising a generation of kids who are spoiled, materialistic, and bored; kids who define success and themselves by possessions, especially brand-names; kids especially susceptible to advertising; kids who are often in debt by the time they leave college. According to one survey, 93 percent of teenage girls say shopping is their favorite pastime. "Rich kids, middle class kids, very poor kids ALL get conditioned to feel like they gotta have this stuff in order to be somebody," says John De Graaf, author of the book "Affluenza." Shopping fever is one symptom, but there is a cure. Watch, "Affluenza."
The Corpoation (2003)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
About
Badge
© 2009 Created by Imani on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
