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Necessity : oil, water, and climate resistance / produced by J Haaken Productions ; directed by Jan Haaken and Samantha Praus ; producers, David Kress, Jan Haaken, Frann Michel.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
- Oil sands--Environmental aspects--Minnesota.
- Oil sands.
- Oil sands industry--Environmental aspects--Minnesota.
- Oil sands industry.
- Petroleum pipelines--Environmental aspects--Minnesota.
- Petroleum pipelines.
- Environmental justice--Environmental aspects--Minnesota.
- Environmental justice.
- Couchiching First Nation.
- Chippewa Tribe.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : digital, sound, color
- Other Title:
- Oil, water, and climate resistance
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Jan Haaken, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Closed Captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- Summary:
- NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities--Native Peoples and communities of color--suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis: impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. Yet with painful histories have come deep insights, forms of resilience and modes of resistance. This feature-length documentary follows indigenous leaders and white allies, using direct action to protect the sacred and demand justice. Legal experts discuss the record of disparate treatment in the justice system and the legal strategy of the necessity defense, which makes a moral case for acts of civil disobedience, while medical and scientific experts address the health effects of fossil fuels and dangers of pipeline and refinery infrastructure.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Morgan Robinson ; editor, Emily von W. Gilbert.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Distributed by Collective Eye.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).
- OCLC:
- 1288335030
- Publisher Number:
- ce-nec Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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