Necessity. Climate justice and the thin green line / directed by Jan Jaaken and Samantha Praus ; produced by Jan Haaken

Additional Titles: Climate justice and the thin green line and Available from some providers with title: Necessity. 2
Published: [Portland, Oregon] : Collective Eye Films, [2022]
Copyright Date: ©2021
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (60 min.)) : sound, color
Additional Creators: Haaken, Jan, Praus, Samantha, and Collective Eye Films

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Summary

In the course of screening Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance at schools, activist events, and festivals, the team began production on a second part, titled Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line. Also feature-length, the 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 these highly inflammable 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 of building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era in thinking about a Green New Deal.

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Director of photography, Timothy Wildgoose ; edited by Emily von W. Gilbert.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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