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ECO-Action announces our annual Environmental Awareness Film Festival !!!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Walmart:The High Cost of Low Price
Directed and Produced by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films, 98 min. 2005
This is a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail giant's assault on families and American values. The film dives into the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to fight a Goliath. A working mother is forced to turn to public assistance to provide health care for her two small children. A Missouri family loses its business after Wal-Mart is given over $2 million to open its doors down the road. A mayor struggles to equip his first responders after Wal-Mart pulls out and relocates just outside the city limits. A community in California unites, takes on the giant, and wins! Click here to see the Capitalism and You Flier!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Who Killed the Electric Car? A Lack of Consumer Confidence…or Conspiracy?
Directed by Chris Paine, 93 min. 2006
Running solely on electricity, GM's fleet of EV-1 electric vehicle were so efficient, they were on the brink of altering the future of driving in America. So why were they all destroyed? The film unravels the puzzling demise of a vehicle that could have saved the environment and America's dangerous addiction to foreign oil.

All films are FREE with FREE Refreshments!!

Movies Start at 7 o'clock!

All movies are being shown in Room 316 at the Georgia Hill Center (above the library).
250 Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312 in the Grant Park neighborhood.

Bring a friend or come alone!
Contact: Yomi at 404-584-6499 or yomi@eco-act.org

Friday, August 15, 2008

Southeast Convergence for Climate Action, Virginia
ECO-Action is a co-sponsor of the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action, and a resource for climate justice.To get more information on this event please visit: www.climateconvergence.org

ECO-Action

Our work is based on the intersection of three things --threats to human health, environmental degradation and social injustice. ECO-Action's mission is to help communities organize to confront environmental health threats. ECO-Action serves the general population, but we focus our assistance with communities who are in need of it the most –most often, rural residents, people with limited formal education, people with few resources, women, and people of color.

At ECO-Action, we believe that communities should have the right to clean air, land and water and have a right to participate in the decisions that affect their own lives. Incredibly, many communities do not have that right today. The people most affected by toxic chemical exposure are those who live in low-income communities and communities of color. We believe that people who organize and work collectively to make change, to share resources, and to solve problems will make a difference in their community's health, environment and prosperity.