If you want to understand the global economic system this film is a must see. It specifically deals with the work that women do and how it is measured (or not measured) in the present day economic system. In examining this issue Marilyn Waring also gives us a critical look into the distorted logic that drives the world today.

Fierce Light
Wednesday, February 24
7:00 PM
SAME Cafe
2023 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

The 2006 murder of friend and fellow media-activist Brad Will in protest-torn Oaxaca, Mexico, is the impetus for Ripper’s journey, which takes him to the flash points  of spiritual activism around the world, including Montgomery, Alabama; Robben Island, South Africa; Andrah, India; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and South Central Los Angeles, where a months-long protest against the razing of a vital community garden provides a highly dramatic spine for the wide-ranging film.

En route, Ripper encounters a number of eloquent icons, including American Civil Rights legend Congressman John Lewis, actor turned activist Daryl Hannah, Nobel prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, Buddhist peace activist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, famed tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill, and dharma punk, Noah Levine, South Central Farmers; Visionaries.

Ripper discovers what Paul Hawken (author “Blessed Unrest”) describes as the largest global movement in history - thousands of individuals and organizations connected by a shared commitment to compassionate, positive action.

Alice Walker calls it “a human sunrise” - Ripper calls it “Fierce Light.” With stunning cinematography, a compelling soundtrack, and dramatic stories of resistance and transformation, FIERCE LIGHT: When Spirit Meets Action reveals what is possible when human beings, faced with a world in crisis, rise to their absolute best.

Collapse
Thursday, January 14
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation
or 1 hour volunteer

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?

Michael Ruppert is a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter From the Wilderness at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial.

Chris Smith has always had a feeling for outsiders in films like American Movie and American Job. In Collapse, Smith stylistically departs from his past films by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate over the issue of peak oil, the concern raised by scientists since the 1970s that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesnt hold back at sounding an alarm. He portrays a future that resembles apocalyptic science fiction. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded; and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.

ArgusFest 6th Annual
Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar
w/ Art, Music, & Culture to
Help End Poverty
Sunday, December 6
1:00 to 4:30 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

Do your holiday shopping with a clean conscience. Join ArgusFest at our 6th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar.

The event will feature vendors offering fair trade gifts, many of which whose sales help support organizations working to reduce conditions of poverty. Throughout the day we will feature live music, film, poetry, and education about poverty issues.

Vendors include:

- Cruelty Free World

- Emergency USA

- People of Hope Crafts

- Ladies Sewing Circle

- Bread and Roses Workers’ Cultural Center

- Bead for Life

- Pachyderm Power

- and more…

If you are interested in becoming a vendor please contact Jason Bosch at 303-669-7286.

More details coming soon…

A River of Waste
Thursday, November 12
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver

A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.” In the U.S and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.

Complementary Currency
presentation by Jason Bosch
Thursday, October 1
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

How is money created? How does its structure shape our world for better or worse? What are some alternatives?

In addressing social and environmental problems we typically only focus on the immediate issues at hand such as the victims of war or the environmental damage done by agribusiness but we rarely look at the larger economic system which, in its design rewards certain behaviors while punishing others. Imagine playing a game where the rules were written by your opponent. Our money system was created by people in the past who do not share our same values and yet we continue to play by those rules. In this presentation will give a brief overview of money structures both historical and present and share the good news about how complementary currencies offer opportunities for a more just and sustainable future.

A Farm for the Future
Monday, August 10
7:00 PM
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.

Addicted to Plastic
Thursday, August 13
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

Reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity and explores solutions.

From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. But such progress has had a cost.

For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. Addicted To Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there’s so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.

Taking Root: The Vision
of Wangari Maathai
Monday, July 13
7:00 PM
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. -Read More

Intelligent Life
w/ director Brian Malone
Thursday, July 9
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

*The smallest carbon footprint of any feature film.*Recipient of the Environmental Media Association’s GREEN SEAL

*Koyaanisqatsi meets Cosmos.

A photographic and musical journey that mirrors our modern world; Intelligent Life examines the horrors and the beauty of modern America. Intelligent Life is a new feature documentary directed, edited and composed by multiple Emmy Award winner, Brian Malone. Intelligent life is a striking high definition, photographic achievement set to a captivating soundtrack. Much of the music was composed by Malone. The soundtrack also includes several pieces from Grammy Award winning/nominated artists, including: Paul Winter, R.Carlos Nakai and Alex de Grassi.

Through a series of meditative music/video vignettes, the film connects the “cause and effect” on our unintentional impact to the world around us. Intelligent Life forces us to face the unpleasant truths behind our treatment of factory farm animals, electricity generation, auto emissions, trash, obsessive consumerism and more. A casual fast food burger is directly tied to the horrific and inhumane treatment of feedlot cattle. An impulse for instant material gratification leads to the filthy and inevitable end of a product?s life in a landfill, where it will take thousands of years to decompose. The simple convenience of turning on a light bulb is bound to the environmental catastrophe of stripping away layers of the Earth.

Finally, Intelligent Life offers practical solutions; how mankind can sustain life within its natural and finite world. The solutions are simple everyday adjustments that are easily adoptable by most everyone.