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There are definitely serious things missing from this well made documentary. How resistance against such a topdown way of radically changing peoples lifes muchhave happened. And to what forms of oppression it led. And how the reign of a centralized communist party must hinder and counteract a real mobilization and exchange of experimenting and mutual aid on a grass roots level. I don't buy the silence on that essential question. On the other hand we must admit that we will have to face other serious problems when we'll have to go theway the Cubans went before us. Will there be enough solidarity within a population that is so severely divided in social classes with very unequal opportunities, the division between poor and rich; can the innate glorification of self enrichment and theft, violence and banditry of the capitalist system be overcome?http://www.powerofcommunity.org/

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is an American documentary film that explores the economic collapse and eventual recovery of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following the dramatic steps taken by boththe Cuban government and citizens, its major themes include urban agriculture, energy dependence, and sustainability. The film was directed by Faith Morgan, and was released in 2006 by AlchemyHouse Productions Inc.

The film is a reflection of the peak oil scenario advocated by oil industry experts and political activists, including Matthew Simmons and James Howard Kunstler. The Cuban economy, heavily dependent on economic aid from the Soviet Union, suffered tremendously following the end of the Cold War. The nation lost half of its oil imports, and 85 percent of its international trade economy.[1] Cuba began

 a slow recovery focused not on finding new energy sources, but on rejecting consumption in favor of sustainable growth. Director Faith Morgan, together with the non-profit group The Community Solution, sought to educate his audience aboutpeak oil and the impact it will have on transportation, agriculture, medicine, and other industries.[2]Contents[hide]

  * 1 History of the film  * 2 See also  * 3 References  * 4 External links

[edit] History of the film

The idea for a film based on the Cuban recovery first arose in August of 2003 when Morgan traveled to Cuba as part of the Global Exchange program. Amazed by stories of survival during The Special Period, they discovered that the solution to the Cuban economic plight was not solved with new energy sources, but instead on a fundamental shift in the country's economic mindset. Morgan began securing funds for the film in 2004 with help from Community Services, Inc. and began filming in the fall of the same year.[3]

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With the assistance of Greg Green, cinematographer and director of the documentary The End of Suburbia, photographer John Morgan, producer Tom Blessing IV, editor Eric Johnson and others, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil was produced to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequencesof being hooked on oil, and to lift Americans prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are.