Free film screening: "CRUDE: A Documentary" next Tuesday, Sept. 7

As our monthly meetup in September, CSCC will host a special film screening of the 2009 documentary, "CRUDE" on Tuesday, September 7 at 6:30pm at the Union County Public Library, 255 Reitz Blvd., Lewisburg. This event is FREE and open to the public. Please join us! For more information, contact us here.

CRUDE (2009, 100 minutes), directed by Joe Berlinger, follows a two-year portion of a $27 billion class action suit brought against the Chevron Corporation following the drilling of the Lago Agrio oil field in Ecuador, a case also known as the "Amazon Chernobyl." The plaintiffs of the lawsuit are 30,000 Ecuadorians living in the Amazonian rainforest, which they claim has been polluted by the oil industry. CRUDE shows interviews from both sides, and explores the influence of media support, celebrity activism, the power of multinational corporations, the shifting power in Ecuadorian politics, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures.

"Dynamic, tightly arranged, and deliberately provocative, Joe Berlinger's CRUDE is a sobering, enraging wake-up call," according to the film website RottenTomatoes.com which gives it a 95% positive rating.

Reading the signs

Another Daily Item story today indicates that Rep. Carney has deep support across the district, in spite of some rumblings about his support for the Health Care bill:

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1047881716/Show-of-support

Recent stories in the DI have noted the tremendous cash advantage that Carney holds: 70-1 (though there is a much smaller gap in money raised from within the district).