Film screening: Unheard voices of environmental and climate justice

27.11.19, 8pm, address: Arnold-Bode-Str. 2, room 0404

1) The first Ecovillage of the Senegal River Valley – A model of sustainable development (12 min)

Short documentary about the Senegalese ecovillage Guédé Chantier, the Senegalese ecovillage network and their success story (by REDES).

2) In Defence of Life (33 min)

About the struggles and triumphs of four communities resisting large-scale mining projects in Colombia, the Philippines, South Africa and Romania (by Gaia Foundation)

3) Rise: From One Island to another (6 min)

Poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels (by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna)

—-All films are in English or have English subtitles—–

This event is part of a whole week of climate strike and the public climate school in Kassel.