Free Screening of the 11th Hour

This Sunday there will be a free screening of the documentary The 11th Hour at Pomona's Rose Hill Theater, which is in the Smith Campus Center. The film is being presented by a teen environmental group that works with Uncommon Good. They will be making a presentation at 4:00 PM and the film will begin at 5:00 PM.

The global warming crisis has important consequences for human rights around the globe. It will challenge people's access to food, clean water, and other basic necessities. Livelihoods will be destroyed. Furthermore, the consequences could lead to the destabilization of many governments which are already in precarious situations. Lack of governmental control can lead to serious human rights abuses. Just look at the poor human rights conditions in Somalia and Congo, where governments are abusive, and their loss of control has led to further human rights abuses on both sides of those conflicts and from external sources. Unstable conditions with scarce resources are poor conditions for fostering democratic governments.

In order to be able to articulate the best changes and policies we can make to address these issues, we need to be educated on what is going on, how we contribute to the problem, and what we can do to solve it. The 11th Hour is a powerful film which can teach us about these important points.

Full information on the showing is below:

Pomona College's Office of Community Programs

and

Uncommon Good's Teen Green

Present a FREE movie screening of

Leonardo DiCaprio's

"The 11th Hour"

WHEN:

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 4:00pm

Presentation at 4:00pm

Screening at 5:00pm

WHERE:

Pomona College's Rose Hills Theater in the Smith Campus Center

Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, written and directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners, The 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. The film features dialogues with experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who present the facts and discuss the most important issues that face our planet.

FMI: e-mail teen.green@hotmail.com

Human Rights in the News

Newsweek -- Interview with Ali Gomaa on Muslim Extremism
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Newsweek -- Resolving Environmental Injustice on a Local Level
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The Economist -- Dealing with Israel's Settler Movement
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The Impact of Industrialization in China

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