DAJ-Y's Welcome:
Greeting from Yokohama. Democrats Abroad Japan-Yokohama, a chapter in formation, would like to announce its first Movie Night. We will meet at 7pm on Tuesday, June 23rd at The HUB pub in Hiyoshi. The HUB is a 2 minute walk from Hiyoshi station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line. http://www.pub-hub.co... from the eki ticket gates, turn right and cross the street Head toward the building to the right of the main campus road and go down the esculator, thru 2 doors and you are there.

500 yen donation to DAJ/ Food and Drinks Ala Carte- One drink purchase requested per person

The Movie will be Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home.

Garbage.... from being offered too many plastic bags while shopping.... to excess packaging..... to cigarette butts thrown on the street is a serious problem here in Japan, just as it is in America/the UK, OZ, New Zealand.... just as it is it the rest of the world.
Join us for good food, the movie and discussions afterward.
We have 2 rooms reserved at The HUB; but they will be showing this movie (with audio) on all screens, so let's pack the place.
A review of the movie from the official website (http://garbage.braven...) follows:
A feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time.

Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonald's, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it’s doing to the world.

From organic waste to the stuff they flush down the potty, the plastic bags they use to the water they drink out of bottles, the air pollution they create when transporting the kids around, to using lights at Christmas, the McDonald's discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and the entire planet.

Everyday life under a microscope has never been so revealing. By the end of this trashy odyssey, you are truly inspired to revolutionize your lifestyle for the sake of future generations.

In Garbage!, filmmaker Andrew Nisker, skillfully and succinctly puts all of the information in one place – shifting the movement from melting glaciers and oil slicks to our neighborhoods and into our homes, so that average people can connect the dots between their actions and the environment and be inspired to change their polluting ways