Food

No Climate. No Equity. No Deal. + Wasteland: Iowa

No Climate. No Equity. No Deal. + Wasteland: Iowa

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Southeast Environmental
Task Force, Chicago, IL
[South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, McKinley Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, IL
[South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Oak Park, IL
[W Suburbs]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

NO CLIMATE. NO EQUITY. NO DEAL.

Fenell Doremus, Danny Alpert/2022/21 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Advocacy

FILM DESCRIPTION: This film follows the grassroots movements in Illinois that led to the passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. 

WASTELAND: IOWA

Elisa Gambino/2022/28 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Health & Environment, Environmental Advocacy, Food & Agriculture

FILM DESCRIPTION: For more than 150 years farmers in Iowa have been raising corn & pigs and the people of Iowa have been drinking untreated water from rivers polluted with nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and livestock excrement.

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

Camilla Becket, James Becket/2021/82 min/Historical Perspectives, Food & Agriculture, Environmental Advocacy, People & Culture

Saturday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, Chicago [Central]

Saturday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: From the Himalayan forests to the Sydney Peace Prize: how environmental activist, author and Indian scientist Dr. Vandana Shiva became the rock star of the organic food movement.

Impressed by Einstein at an early age, Shiva studied physics then philosophy in India and Canada. She came to understand that science cannot be ‘one-eyed' and must consider all elements at play. This attitude led her to form Navdanya in 1991, a national movement to protect living resources. The grassroots initiative established over 40 seed banks across India, and her galvanizing activism put her at loggerheads with GMO multinational Monsanto and others. Not just a voice for the environment, Shiva also championed social justice, farmers' and women's rights. In 2010, she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.

Tickets available globally except to viewers in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.