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The award-winning feature-length documentary "Ciclovida: Lifecycle" pedals alongside a group of small farmers from Brazil who bicycle more than 6,000 miles across the South American continent.

They use the year of travel to exchange natural seeds, songs, and ideas about new ways of relating to the land. Moving stories from landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers inform the travelers and viewers understanding of the struggle to survive in the face of global agribusiness incursion and the takeover of mono-crops for making biofuel.

With practically no money and no support crew, the protagonists rely entirely on their resourcefulness and the solidarity of people they meet along the way. They carry with them only the simplest of necessities, their radical ideas and philosophy, collected heirloom seeds, and a video camera.

Author and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott will appear at 8 PM on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media to talk about the past, present and future of anti-nuclear activism.  She is a pediatrician and an anti-nuclear activist, who opposes both nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

Helen Caldicott will be introduced by Lawrence Wittner, longtime historian at SUNY Albany who has written extensively about the impact of the worldwide nuclear disarmament movement upon nuclear weapons policies.

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Activists from the radical environmental group Earth First! will speak at The Sanctuary For Independent Media (3361 Sixth Avenue in North Troy) at 7 PM on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.  They will be presenting the Earth First! Journal Roadshow, featuring a program about the international ecodefense movement called “Earth Nightly News” followed by a multimedia presentation on the history of Earth First! (which is celebrating 30 years on the front lines of ecological defense).

Please join us for a reception and information-sharing session at 7pm. The film will begin at 8pm, and will be followed by a group discussion on plastic reduction and reuse facilitated by Steve Davis.

Screening cosponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop and the Capital District Community Gardens.

Representatives from local plastic-alternative groups Ecovative Design, Ecolibrium, and Sonrise Diaper Service will be sharing information and demonstrating plastic-reduction strategies, at tables in the Sanctuary from 7 to 8pm.

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No ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. What eventually happens to all the plastic in water bottles, packaging, and hundreds of other everyday uses? This documentary offers a visually compelling, entertaining, ultimately frightening explanation.