Fire Flies Festival + An Inconvenient Truth

A friend of mine just saw An Inconvenient Truth (http://an-inconvenient-truth.com) and says that the movie is very good and very accurate, but that his sense in talking to people who've seen it is that audiences are leaving the theater feeling less hopeful and more powerless than they were when they went in. I'm pretty sure that's now what Al Gore intended!

The movie opens in Greensboro at the Carousel on July 1. The Fire Flies Festival begins on July 4 with the parade and runs through Sunday, July 9 and a Really Really Free Market in Lake Daniel Park. A Really Really Free Market is basically a demonstration of an alternate economy based on community and shared resources (A RRFM is held in Carrboro pretty regularly--you can read more about that one at http://www.carrboro.com/reallyreallyfreemarket/) . Last year's RRFM was a big success and brought in a wide diversity of people; we expect an even better turnout this year.

So my suggestion is this:

1. We flyer outside the Carousel on July 1 and maybe on the days after, inviting people to Fire Flies and most especially the Really Really Free Market.

2. We gather together as many demonstrations of sustainability as we can at the Really Really Free Market: eating locally, reusing resources, permaculture, alternate energy, collective living, local activism, community building, etc. etc. Anything we can think of!

Email questions and suggestions to gcac@riseup.net, call 274-1814 if you want more information, or just show up at Lake Daniel Park (between Mimosa and East Lake Drive near the tennis courts) on Sunday, July 9 with the things you want to share…