Directed by Jan Haaken & Sam Praus, English, 1 hour, USA, 2022

Join us in screening Necessity: Climate Justice & The Thin Green Line as part of the annual Women Take The Reel Film Festival. 

This film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying highly flammable products through treaty lands. In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along the Columbia, we revisit lessons of the New Deal era building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era in thinking about a Green New Deal.

The screening will take place on February 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM. A Q&A discussion with co-director Jan Haaken in conversation with local activists for an invigorating conversation follows the screening. A light reception closes the evening.

This event is free and open to the public. You must register to attend.

Location:

Bartos Theater at MIT

20 Ames Street - Bldg E15-070

Cambridge, MA 02142