EUS Film: "The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"

Retired EUS and History professor Mark Lytle recently returned from a trip to Cuba and would like to share this film with us. There will be a brief discussion after the event.

The documentary, "The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003.

The goals of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American's prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by having the people tell their story on film. It's a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources. Everyone who has worked on the documentary hopes that, seeing this film, people will also see the world on which we live, as another, much larger, island.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin 102

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