Rick Turner is a 35 year Wallingford resident, retired architect, and Executive Director of the The Meaningful Movies Project. He wanted to specially get the word out on this Friday’s showing which will be in support of the Paris global warming talks:
This coming Friday Night, Dec 4th at 7:00 PM, Meaningful Movies in Wallingford will be presenting the film ‘This Changes Everything’ and we hope you will join us at Keystone Congregation Church. Following the film and joining us for our discussion will be Alec Connon from 350Seattle.org, who is the organizer for the Gates Divest Campaign; and Jessica Koski from the Sierra Club who is part of a team working to shut down the Colstrip coal plant in Montana that Naomi Klein features in her film.
This is an important film and part of a strategy of 12 screenings across the Puget Sound region, organized by The Meaningful Movies Project. The Paris Climate Talks start officially today (11/30), and we (at Wallingford and as a network) decided the best thing we could do to help is to act as a megaphone for the established groups in the Seattle/Puget Sound area doing incredible work towards educating about & advocating for Climate Justice. Our hope is that we can create enough movement within our own community and others that by inductance, we can educate an entire region about the impacts of global climate change and the dangers we face if we don’t quickly move toward renewables and a fossil-free energy system.
The Pacific Northwest is a catalyst for social change across the nation, from the $15 minimum wage, to plastic bag laws to stopping Shell Oil. It’s now more important than ever that the Climate Justice movement grow widely and quickly for our children’s sake and for ours. In many ways, it’s up to us. We’ve provided an information page on screenings, resources and organizations that can help you get meaningfully engaged at whatever level you can, here: http://meaningfulmovies.org/this-changes-everything-across-seattle/. Please pass info about our Wallingford screening of this film on to friends, family, neighbors and others in the area. Thanks!
About the film:
‘THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING’ (Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis, 89 min, 2015) This is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller of the same name, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. …More info HERE.All our events are Free and Open to the Public. Donations are kindly accepted to cover screening costs and expenses.
It’s interesting to think about how Seattle can be a trend setter in this area. How about congestion pricing and utility rates that penalize the biggest consumers on a per-occupant or per-employee basis?
No congestion pricing, thank you very much. All that does is allow wealthy people to drive on our streets whenever they want, sort of the same principle in the single occupant vehicles being allowed to use the toll lanes if they pay for the privilege. I just came back from London and the only vehicles you see driving during the congestion periods are taxis, delivery vehicles and very high end cars. It’s an unfair method and I will never support it.
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