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Webcast / Chill Out
Wednesday, April 16th, 7pm
Hunter Auditorium, Whitman College
“Chill Out” is a web broadcast featuring positive, practical solutions to global warming being implemented by higher education campuses around the country. Presented by Campus Climate Challenge.
Movie Showing: The Price of Sugar
Friday, April 18th, 7pm
Hunter Auditorium, Whitman College
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens.
[www.thepriceofsugar.com]
Movie Showing / Uranium
Saturday, April 19th, 7pm
Olin Hall 130, Whitman College
Native peoples pay the consequences of uranium mining. Canada, where this film was shot, has the world’s richest vein of uranium and a recent history of violent confrontation over native rights.
[www.bullfrogfilms.cm/catalog/ur.html]
Earth Day Celebration
Sunday, April 20th, 1pm to 3pm
Ankeny Field, Whitman College
A festive event celebrating our planet’s environment. Campus and community groups will present entertaining activities and opportunities to get involved. There will be tie-dying, root beer floats, live music and free food!
Movie Showing / Arid Lands
Sunday, April 20th, 7pm
Olin Hall 130, Whitman College
Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history.
[www.sidelongfilms.com/aridlands/film.html]
Movie Showing / Ke Ke Xi Li: Mountain Patrol
Monday, April 21st, 7pm
Olin Hall 130, Whitman College
Feature film inspired by a people’s remarkable mission surrounding the illegal Tibetan antelope poaching in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China.
[www.nationalgeographic.com/mouontainpatrol]
Bon Appetit / Low Carbon Diet Day
Tuesday, April 22nd, all day
Dining Halls, Whitman College
[www.eatlowcarbon.com]
Movie Showing / Black Sea: Voyage Of Healing
Tuesday, April 22nd, 7pm
Olin Hall 130, Whitman College
Scientists and religious leaders meet to find the solution to the Black Sea in crisis.
[www.villonfilms.com/filmrec.php?queryIndex=3&director=1]
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