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Skipping Waste Video Potluck

Apr 5
Sun 7:00 PM
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Estimated attendance
 4  people attended.
5.00 5.002

Who organized?
Eric

Bring some food to share, watch "Skipping Waste" and meet others interested in dumpstering or freegansim.

Skipping Waste is a 40-minute documentary about dumpster diving, also referred to as Skipping in some countries.

Please consider walking, biking, taking public transit or carpooling to this event. For information on public transportation visit http://metro.net...

Skipping Waste
"Skipping Waste" is a documentary about dumpster diving created in 2009 by Lily Barlow. It was shot in France and the Netherlands. The movie is distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons ShareAlike NonCommercial Attribution license.

Monopolized supermarkets chains dominate food sales. Bananas from Columbia and avocados from Brazil fill food baskets of European consumers throughout winter-time. These and other unsustainable consumer habits lead to a well of waste, burned oil and overflowed landfills. Desperately seeking an alternative, dumpster divers take to the streets, feeding themselves and those hundreds in need with dumpstered food. "Skipping Waste" follows these communities through France and the Netherlands as they recoup and reuse what a capitalist society deemed as trash.

Freeganism
Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.
freegan.info
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism

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  • Grace (aka DumpsterKitty)
    Posted Apr 4, 2009 5:13 PM
    Grace (aka DumpsterKitty)
    I have no idea what to bring, since I haven't had any big hauls from my one 99 cent dumpster in inglewood...any ideas for spots around here where i can find something to contribute to the potluck? Also, if there is anybody close taking a car, I would be willing to meet up somewhere to hitch a ride with you.
  • M Cruz
    Posted Apr 4, 2009 3:56 PM
    M Cruz
    Im not sure what to bring, maybe dessert or a salad or both.
  • Eric
    Posted Apr 2, 2009 4:27 PM
    Eric
    Assistant Organizer
    David, please do. I suspect we might go skipping afterwards.
  • David Sun
    Posted Apr 2, 2009 4:11 PM
    David Sun
    I'll bring drinks and some wine? Eric, if you already have that front covered, let me know and I'll get something else. we should totally do DD after the pot luck.
  • Eric
    Posted Mar 31, 2009 12:07 AM
    Eric
    Assistant Organizer
    I'll be bringing some food from a local skip. I've got 3 bags of tortellinis, 6 tomatoes and 2 peppers I just recovered today. I also recovered 5 dozen eggs, 4 loaves of bread, sunflower seads, a dozen bannanas (some still green), some broccolli flowers, some havarti cheese, tri-tip carne asada form Australia, 2 boxes of soy milk, 2 apples and a 1 jar of sun dried tomatoes. I'm amazed at how wasteful TJs is!
  • Eric
    Posted Mar 17, 2009 11:58 AM
    Eric
    Assistant Organizer
    Ooops - The email was wrong. April 5th it is!
  • Jacky
    Posted Mar 16, 2009 7:51 PM
    Jacky
    Wait, April 5th or April 10th? The email was April 10th, and the posting's April 5th.

Who attended?

  • 4 attendees
    • “ It was great meeting everyone on Sunday and we definitely had a good haul. No incidents or competitions. Being the first time I DDed, little shocked at how much was thrown away. Got enough food to feed a small family for about a week I imagine. ”
    • “ I enjoyed the film, conversation and dumpstering with the small group that came to this event. We went dumpstering around 10:30 PM, we went by 2 Smart and Finals to find there dumpsters were well locked up. Then we went to TJs to and recovered a bounty of food. ”