February/March 2006

Politics and the Web of Life
Lesley Adams

Another World Is Possible
Gar Alperovitz

The Cochabamba Water Revolt
Jim Schultz

In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind
Bill Moyers

The Man Who Sold the Iraq War
Amy Goodman interviews James Bamford

The Translucent Revolution
Arjuna Ardagh

Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Lester Brown

Is There a Friendlier Option for a Post-peak Future?
Bill McKibben

Awakening The Unique Potential in Each Child
Danella M. Shea

The Education of Jarvis Masters
Anna Smith

The Ashland Independent Film Festival

5th Annual Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival

Daily Life and Stillness
Christine Breese, DD, Ph.D

The Science of Spiritual Marketing
Andrea Adler

Books in Brief
Moksha Mokma

Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Asha Deliverance

Cosmic Calendar
Salina Rain

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5th Annual Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival

In these bleak times of environmental disasters and human suffering it is critical to believe that another world is possible. Another world is possible and it will come to Ashland February 10-12th, 2006 on the big screen at the Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival (SEFF), presented by the Siskiyou Project. The event marks the fifth year of the festival in Ashland, presenting more than twenty-five films exploring environmental issues and showcasing people making a difference.

For three days SEFF will screen documentary, animation, and children’s films on local, regional, and global issues spanning an entire spectrum, from drilling oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the plight of critical mass bike riders. The festival brings together engaging speakers, filmmakers, cutting edge documentaries, and conservationists under one roof.

The 2006 festival lineup includes Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, with stories of five remarkable Native American activists in four communities. From Alaska to Maine, Montana to New Mexico and against some of America’s most spectacular backdrops, these first-person jour-neys unfold as characters demand change, not sympathy, and rally grassroots support against the corporate and govern-ment behemoths who are exploiting and befouling tribal lands. The vision that sustains them from one battle to the next is of a future where US energy con-sumption and waste production will not be at the expense of indi-genous people.

Being Caribou brings the audience on an epic journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, who for five months migrated on foot with the 123,000-member caribou herd from wintering to calving grounds in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and back again—1500km across snow and tundra.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price highlights the impacts of the mega-retailer on communities in the U.S. and in China where many of the products are made.

The Future of Food, shot on location in the US, Canada and Mexico, examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system.

Local films such as the Ashland Ski Expansion, Fire Scars: A Biscuit Fire Documentary, and others, provide a unique opportunity to learn and explore the nearby ecology of the Klamath-Siskiyou bio-region.

The Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival is presented by the Siskiyou Project and co-sponsored by the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Headwaters, OSPIRG, Media Collective, Defenders of Wildlife, and more. SEFF is also supported by over a dozen local businesses. From a comfortable chair, the viewer can visit places he or she never dreamed of exploring until now.

Films will be shown from February 10-12th, Friday through Sunday, beginning at 4:00pm Friday, at the Havurah Sanctuary on 185 North Mountain Street in Ashland.

Tickets and schedules will be available in Ashland at the Northwest Nature Shop, on-line at www.siskiyou.org/festival, and at the door. For more information, to volunteer, or to order tickets, call the Siskiyou Project at (541) 592-4459 or email justin@siskiyou.org.