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Film screening is followed by Q&A session with special guests

*Doors open at 5:30pm

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. Contact wgs@mit.edu for questions and accommodations.

Women Take The Reel is brought to you by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality at MIT; the MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies; the Boston College Women’s and Gender Studies Program; the MIT Program in Media Arts & Sciences; the Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; the Tufts University Program in Film and Media Studies; and the Tufts University Program In Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies