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The people supposedly trying to solve them are almost all serving narrow mandates on behalf of their own nation, religion, business or community. There's a terrifying mismatch between the nature of the problems and the means the world is deploying to tackle them.
"Pangea" defines the supercontinent consisting of the whole land area of the globe before it was split by continental drift. Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the divided world closer together. On Saturday, May 10, 2008 many locations around the globe will be linked to produce a 4-hour program of films, music and speakers, broadcast live at the same time across the world. This is a powerful, first-of-its-kind experience.
Gathered in homes, movie theaters and larger venues, a marathon Pangea Day session will feature a remarkable program of films and talks celebrating our common humanity. If you consider yourself a global soul, this could be one of your year's highlights.
While you can watch Pangea Day alone, it should be watched as a community event, to get the sense of the great global village gathering around a campfire. There are already thousands of self-organized screenings taking place in homes, clubs, and movie theaters.
Today's media has the power to humanize, to help people make the mental switch from "them" to "us". Telling stories through film is especially powerful. At the start of a film, you may see some strange-looking people in many parts of the world. At the end you'll feel kinship. It's just a natural mental repositioning.
Pangea Day - Saturday, May 10th (11am-3pm US West Coast, 2-6pm US East Coast, 7-11pm in UK, 8pm-midnight in Europe and Africa, 9pm-1am in the Mideast, 11.30pm-3.30am India, etc.
Please help spread awareness of Pangea Day.
