Film Screening: Unfractured – *Rescheduled Date* – Mar 9

Please join FACT for a showing of the 2017 movie Unfractured, which focuses on a year in the life of writer, climate activist and scientist Sandra Steingraber, as she plays a leading role in two difficult, multi-year, and ultimately successful anti-fracking campaigns.

In Sandra’s words:  “The film shows how otherwise shy and ordinary citizens fought and won a David versus Goliath battle with the gas industry when it rode into our community wearing a mantle of inevitability. …we crafted a slingshot made of equal parts love, science and grassroots political power. This film shows how we did it. May it help other communities up against the shale gas army shake off self-defeatism and do the same.”

See Sandra testifying.

Inspiration for activists and would-be activists working on climate issues, fighting our own fossil-fuel infrastructure projects here in the Northwest.

Biologist, mother and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to public health. She is the co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking and Concerned Health Professionals of New York and currently serves as science adviser to Americans Against Fracking. She has provided Congressional briefings, lectured widely in medical schools and college campuses, and testified before the United Nations, the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament. She is currently a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

In April, 2018, the movie Unfractured won top prize at the EarthX Environmental Film Festival in Dallas, Texas. Its director is using the $5,000 prize to make the movie available to 50 grassroots environmental organizations to show free of charge.  FACT is one of the 50 groups who were chosen for this.

More info about the movie: https://www.unfractured.com/news/

Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/217694455

Sandra’s website: www.steingraber.com

FACT is the Faith and Action Team at 1 Sustainable Planet.