Thursday, May 8, 2008

May 07, 2008 by Lara Jones

Midday Metro starts at 11 a.m.

A new study claims some 300,000 vets serving in Iraq or Afghanistan are suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). International healer Byron Katie talks about The Work and her efforts to help returning soldiers, veterans and their families begin the healing process. Katie is in town as a guest of the Integrative Health Network.

 

Plus, Flow: For the Love of Water is a new film that highlights the local intimacies of an emerging global catastrophe: from African plumbers reconnecting shantytown water pipes under cover of darkness to ensure a community's survival to a Canadian author who uncovers the corporate profiteering that drives global water business. Midday Metro goes to the source on Flow: For the Love of Water, which will be shown at The Post Theatre, 110 S. Fort Douglas Blvd, U of U, at 7 p.m. tonight. The screening is free and open to the public.

 

The final water week poetry slam winner, Colleen Salazar, presents her winning poem -- The Mist. The SLC Dept. of Public  Utilities sponsored its first-ever water week poetry slam and Midday Metro has featured several this week. 

 

Kids making movies. Midday Metro goes to the source of the 7th annual Locomotion Youth Film Festival.

 

11:55 AM: A daily update on KCPW's drive for independence-or-bust. KCPW listeners, we need your help to make the down payment on buying the station. Ed Sweeney of Wasatch Public Media will have the latest figures on KCPW's capital campaign and he'll answer your questions.

 

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