Free Movie: The End of Suburbia

There's a movie playing with free admission this Saturday, March 12 at 2:00pm at City Cinema here in Charlottetown. It looks very interesting, I'll be there. Here's the film's home page: The End Of Suburbia and from City Cinema's web site:

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

Rated To Be Announced ~ Runs 78 minutes

Dir.: Gregory Greene, Canada/US, 2004

Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael C. Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews.

Free admission. www.endofsuburbia.com

The Green Party of Canada is hosting the first PEI screening of the documentary film The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream at 2:00 PM on March 12. Anyone interested in becoming involved with or learning more about the Green Party can join us after the film at the Gahan House for a casual meeting. Contact Sharon Labchuk 621-0719 or slabchuk@isn.net.

Part of the new wave of progressive documentaries that includes Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Corporation, The End of Suburbia has been featured at film festivals and community screenings all over North America. The Alternative Press Review has called it "one of the most important must-see documentaries of the year".

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the North American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the North American Dream.

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