"Our Movement Starts Here" film screening & discussion

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The film “Our Movement Starts Here” (82 mins 2024) documents the history and global urgency of environmental justice. This free film screening event is presented by 309 Punk Project in partnership with Earth Ethics and Kukua Institute.

In 1982 a rural predominately Black community in North Carolina mobilized and fought the state’s plan to site a toxic PCB landfill in their county. This landmark action — the first to articulate the concepts of environmental racism and environmental justice — brought together civil rights activists and environmentalists for the first time to fight for common goals. Forty years later the citizens of Warren County commemorate the anniversary by inspiring a new generation of environmental justice activists to push the movement into a future that grapples with the inequities of climate change continued environmental atrocities that target poor communities of color and a system that continues to dump on those with the least power to fight.

Through contemporary interviews with the original protesters who inspired the environmental justice movement in 1982 this feature documentary tells the story of a rural community fighting the state of North Carolina’s plan to construct a toxic landfill near their homes.

Producers / Co-directors: John Rash & Melanie Ho

Team: Allison Friday Jeffrey Reed Raeghan Buchanan Rex Jones Sandip Rai Bethany Fitts and Lillian Slaughter

More about the film: https://southdocs.org/project/movementstartshere/

Host or Publisher 309 Punk Project