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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)
WHEN: Wednesday, October 14th, 2009; 7:00pm - 9:00pm
WHERE: Knight Auditorium, Babson College
231 Forest Street, Babson Park, MA 02457
ENTRY: This is a FREE PUBLIC event. Refreshments will be served. A reservation system is in place due to limited seating. Please RSVP online at www.ethosalliance.eventbrite.com.
CRUDE: From director Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) comes the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
Additional Information
Ethos Alliance: www.ethosalliance.org -- Please sign up for the online newsletter. Contact us at info@ethosalliance.org.
CRUDE: www.crudethemovie.com -- watch a two-minute preview!
Richie Goldman: www.richiegoldman.com -- learn more about Ethos Alliance Founder Richie Goldman.
www.ethosalliance.org
The Ethos Alliance (EA) was founded by Richie Goldman in July of 2009. EA is a bureaucracy free organization dedicated to policing the corporate sector and insuring that they live up to their responsibilities as good citizens, not simply acting as value-enhancers for their shareholders. To ensure corporate responsibility, EA picks a single target issue at a time and dedicates the full scope of its resources to addressing it to achieve the desired outcome.
www.richiegoldman.com
Richie Goldman is one of the original partners in Men’s Wearhouse. He joined the company in 1973, two weeks after the first store opened in Houston. While with Men’s Wearhouse, he was responsible for the overall marketing and advertising. He retired in 2002. Since then, he has been involved in several non-profits, including the acclaimed Project Homeless Connect in San Francisco. His book, Luck by Design…Certain Success in an Uncertain World (Morgan-James 2009) has achieved critical acclaim and won the “Best Non-Fiction” at the San Francisco Book Festival.
www.crudethemovie.org
Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is an award-winning documentary film that chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron (formerly Texaco) accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon – an environmental tragedy experts call "the Rainforest Chernobyl." Centering on a $27 billion lawsuit filed by the indigenous people who continue to suffer a severe public health crisis caused by Chevron's contamination, CRUDE is a high-stakes David vs. Goliath legal drama with 30,000 Amazon rainforest dwellers facing down the 5th largest corporation on the planet.
