Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up

When:
October 11, 2016 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Where:
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609, USA

The protests at Standing Rock are still going strong and Indigenous People’s day is on October 10th! What a perfect time to screen this film: Directed by Suree Towfighnia (2015) When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her. A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water … Continue reading Liberated Lens Film Screening: Crying Earth Rise Up