2013 Social Cinema Series

Co-sponsored by Madison-Area Urban Ministry

Join Nathan Clarke of Mad Urban Bees for a discussion after the film.

Co-sponsored by FairShare CSA Coalition, F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture, Mad Urban Bees LLC, Willy Street Grocery Coop.

This is a visually stunning film about urban planning. Yep! Hear from architects and planners as they look at what makes cities awful and what makes cities wonderful. They believe that if we research what makes cities great, we can plan thoughtfully for the inevitable growth of the world’s cities WITH A FOCUS ON PEOPLE.

Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena for public expression is turned into a private profit zone. Why have we let a handful of powerful corporations write the news? We’re left in no doubt – media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is fundamental.

You have clicked on them many times: “I agree to the Terms and Conditions of this web site.” But you never read them. But by agreeing, you empower the surveillance state by giving the government data through corporations that it cannot get directly from you. This shocking film should dramatically change the way you use the internet.

In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).