LaDonna RedmondColor of Sustainability - LaDonna Redmond 2005 Bioneers plenary talk. LaDonna describes how she has organized a community in Chicago that is working to develop local solutions to the issue of local food access. She and her husband formed a non-profit organization and obtained several vacant lots, and converted those lots to urban farm sites, and hired people from the community to work on those sites.They now have a group of parks called the Chicago Food Systems Collaborative and are building a grocery store that will provide access to food in our community.
Movie Length: 27 min.
Get it Together - A positive, fast-paced look at the contributions young people of all races are making to transform their communities and protect their environment. Produced by youth for youth, the video begins by broadly defining "environment" to include urban blight as well as pollution. Several organizations of young people are profiled: Detroit Summer, a group working to improve America's inner cities; YouthBuild in New York, which builds low-income housing; and young Mexican-American women in California speaking out against pesticide pollution. Several other groups formed by kids are featured briefly. Young people tell how their involvement has helped them develop a sense of pride in themselves and their communities.Designed to empower youth to make a difference, Get It Together also provides practical tips from activists on how to organize for local action.
Movie Length: 28 min.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: "The New Dream: The 3rd Wave of Environmentalism" - Featuring Van Jones, Julia Butterfly Hill, Paul Hawken, Raquel Rivera-Pinderhughes, and Ian Kim, The New Dream outlines the promise of lifting low-income folks out of poverty and into the exploding green economy.
Movie Length: 12 minutes
Forum Speakers:
Aaron Lehmer, an environmental and social justice activist with a background in sustainable community development. He serves as the Campaign Manager for Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, where he works to create opportunities for young adults in the emerging green economy. He co-founded Bay Localize and has worked for Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute, ReThink Paper, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition. He holds an MA in Globalization and the Environment from Humboldt State University and a double BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University. His commentaries have been featured on NPR and Bay Area radio stations, and his articles have been published on AlterNet, in the Earth Island Journal, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Aaron lives in Berkeley and is an avid gardener and music fan.
Alli Chagi-Starr has been innovating ways of using art as a tool for human rights — and using the human rights movement as an inspiration for beautiful art — for more than ten years. Alli is a founder of the Art in Action Youth Leadership Program, Dancers Without Borders, Another World is Possible Road Shows, and the Radical Performance Fest. She helped found Art and Revolution, a national movement of artist-activists that worked to revitalize social movements from 1996-2001. She has published several essays for Democratizing the Global Economy, Global Uprising, Voices from the WTO, The Political Edge, and How to Stop the Next War Now.
Admission: general - $9, $5 for members, seniors and New College students, payable at the Roxie box office two doors down. Additionally, a discount is available to qualified UAS members - for more info go to http://www.UAS.coop/join
After the Movie:
Prolong the conversation by walking down the block to ELIXIR, San Francisco's 2nd oldest saloon. ELIXIR offers $1 off any organic beer, wine or mixed drink when you show your UAS Green Movie Night ticket stub.
Come absorb some of the most insightful films, documentaries and commentaries across a wide spectrum of relevant topics of today and tomorrow at UAS Green Movie Night & Forum at the Roxie Film Center.
