Thanks Gordon! This sounds very interesting. I wonder if they'll dare show
it here in San Francisco?!?! I found an interesting interview with the
people that made the film at

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2006/1791367.htm#

Mike

On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:46:42 -0400, Davy, Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>A colleague whom I respect has just emailed me an invitation to
>screenings next week in Washington DC of a film Mine Your Own Business.
>The first screening will be with the House Natural Resources Committee. 
>
>I have not seen the film, but according to the invitation, Mine Your Own
>Business looks at the negative impacts of environmentalism. It presents
>the views of some of the world's poorest people, who openly discuss how
>western environmentalists are campaigning to keep them in poverty,
>because they want to "preserve" poor countries' "quaint" and
>"indigenous" way of life. It is the first documentary to ask hard
>questions of the environmental movement. (It isn't difficult to detect
>elitism in environmental activists.)
>
>To view the trailer and for more information on the film and the Moving
>Picture Institute, which produced it, visit: www.mineyourownbusiness.org
><http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/>   or www.thempi.org
><http://www.thempi.org/> . Reservations are requested for each
>screening.
>
>
>
>Gordon Davy