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Betsy Taylor
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Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 7:53 AM
Subject: Excellent new film: "Bedrock Rights: A New Foundation for Global Action Against Fracking and Climate Change.”
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Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:18 PM
Subject: Excellent new film: "Bedrock Rights: A New Foundation for Global Action Against Fracking and Climate Change.”
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From: Tom Kerns <tomke...@alumni.nd.edu>
Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:18 PM
Subject: Excellent new film: "Bedrock Rights: A New Foundation for Global Action Against Fracking and Climate Change.”
To: Tom Kerns <tomke...@alumni.nd.edu>
Dear All,
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Special Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change has now been immortalized in film. The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, which hosted that Special Session, has just released its first professionally produced documentary film titled "Bedrock Rights: A New Foundation for Global Action Against Fracking and Climate Change.” Following its world premiere in early June of 2021, the film has now been made freely accessible to all here.
We have of course long known that climate change is a major scientific and technological problem, but what the Tribunal’s findings have now established is that, at the most fundamental level, climate change is a problem of environmental justice, threatening to become the greatest violation of human rights the world has ever seen. The film shows how the lens of human rights can transform the world's view of climate change and fracking and can empower new global action. The film features:
• Poetry by Debra Marquart, a writer, singer, and teacher who has taught writing workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by fracking
• Interviews with Tom Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, co-editors of the new book Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
• Stories from people on the front lines of fracking
• Comments from environmental justice activists, including Sandra Steingraber and Jacqueline Patterson
• Key points from the advisory opinion of the Permanent People's Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change
Immediately following that premier screening, the Spring Creek Project hosted a conversation with Sandra Steingraber and Mary Wood. A recording of that conversation is available now as well and can be viewed here.
All warm wishes,
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The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Special Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change has now been immortalized in film. The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, which hosted that Special Session, has just released its first professionally produced documentary film titled "Bedrock Rights: A New Foundation for Global Action Against Fracking and Climate Change.” Following its world premiere in early June of 2021, the film has now been made freely accessible to all here.
We have of course long known that climate change is a major scientific and technological problem, but what the Tribunal’s findings have now established is that, at the most fundamental level, climate change is a problem of environmental justice, threatening to become the greatest violation of human rights the world has ever seen. The film shows how the lens of human rights can transform the world's view of climate change and fracking and can empower new global action. The film features:
• Poetry by Debra Marquart, a writer, singer, and teacher who has taught writing workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by fracking
• Interviews with Tom Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, co-editors of the new book Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
• Stories from people on the front lines of fracking
• Comments from environmental justice activists, including Sandra Steingraber and Jacqueline Patterson
• Key points from the advisory opinion of the Permanent People's Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change
Immediately following that premier screening, the Spring Creek Project hosted a conversation with Sandra Steingraber and Mary Wood. A recording of that conversation is available now as well and can be viewed here.
All warm wishes,
Tom
Dr Tom Kerns, Founder/Director, Environment and Human Rights Advisory
Founder/Director, Youth Climate Courts
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, North Seattle College
Online course: Environment and Human Rights
Books:
• With Kathleen Dean Moore: Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change, 2021
• Youth Climate Courts: How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet, due out with Routledge in September 2021
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How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody?
No.
By slowly becoming everything.
Arundhati Roy
Executive Director
Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN)
OFFICE: 859 523 5056
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