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Join us for this film screening and community discussion by Truth 2 Power, on defending our water from oil contamination. Two films will be screened: Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock, the final short film by Academy Award winner, Jonathan Demme and The Community of the River Wachirpas, a short film by Brooklyn Demme. Stories can help us come together and honor the connections which we share with the rest of the world.
In 2016 the Lakota people of the Standing Rock Reservation had to defend their watershed and sacred burial sites from an invading oil company. This short and impactful film by Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme, Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock, listens to the voices of the water protectors urging us to defend the sacred.
In The Community of the River Wachirpas, viewers enter the heart of the Amazon, where contaminated water is risking the lives and culture of an Achuar community on the Wachirpas River. As a result, the people of Wachirpas need a purification system to prevent the contamination from spreading from the water into their bodies.