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If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front (screening)

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Join us for a free public film screening of “If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front” (2011, 88mins) https://www.facebook.com/events/306102246423924/ Room 301 https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/if-tree-falls-story-earth-liberation-front In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front– a group the FBI has called…

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Is the Crown at War with Us? (screening)

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Join us for a free public film screening of “Is the Crown at War with Us?” (2002, 97mins) https://www.facebook.com/events/1446923048657655/ Paul O’Regan Hall https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/crown-war-us It was the summer of 2000 and the country watched with disbelief as federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi’gmaq fishermen of Esgenoopetitj, or Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why…

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Screening: This Changes Everything

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Special event: A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Ecology Action Centre. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm – Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2015) Directed by Avi Lewis and produced in conjunction with Lewis’ partner Naomi Klein’s bestselling book of the same name, This Changes Everything…

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Screening: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010) and Seeking Netukulimk (2013)

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INUIT KNOWLEDGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE (2010, Dirs. Zacharias Kunuk & Ian Mauro, 60′). Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world’s first Inuktitut language film on the topic,…

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Screening: Payback (2011)

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Based on Margaret Atwood’s bestselling book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Jennifer Baichwal’s feature documentary PAYBACK (2011, Canada, 85’) offers a fascinating look at debt as a mental construct and traces how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and even the fate of the planet. The film explores the link between debtor…

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