Movie & Discussion: Necessity - Oil, Water & Climate Resistance In-Person
Join us the 3rd Tuesday of each month for a movie and a group discussion! In June, we're showing Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance.
Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities--Native Peoples and communities of color--suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis: impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. The documentary follows Indigenous leaders and white allies, using direct action to protect the sacred and demand justice. Tribal attorney and activist Tara Houska and Honor the Earth water protector Debra Topping guide this journey through critical geographical and political terrain, along with other legal experts who expose the disparate treatment in the justice system and the legal strategy of climate activists in using the necessity defense, which makes a moral case for acts of civil disobedience.
This film is part of our Environmental Justice and BIPOC Communities Series:
- June 17th: Art as Resistance with Jihan Gearon and Ed Kabotie
- June 18th: Movie and Discussion: Necessity - Oil, Water & Climate Resistance
- June 20th: Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present
- July 16th: Movie and Discussion: Downwind
- July 22nd: Archaeology’s Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Sustainability
- August 29th: Caretakers of the Land: A Story of Farming and Community in San Xavier
This project is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Este programa cuenta con el apoyo de la Biblioteca Estatal de Arizona, Archivos y Registros Públicos, una división de la Secretaria de Estado, con fondos federales del Instituto de Servicios de Museos y Bibliotecas.
This event is part of our Summer Reading Challenge (SRC). Attending this event will give you a secret code to get points toward reaching your goal. Sign-up for the SRC here!
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