Watch online until May 30

There’s still time to make the most of the opportunity to view and share Come Hell or High Water on the WORLD Channel website until May 30. The film is followed by a 30-minute discussion with Derrick Evans, journalist Brentin Mock and America ReFramed host Natasha Del Toro at http://bit.ly/TurkeyCreek. Please continue to spread the word and encourage colleagues and partners to organize a Come Hell or High Water watch party at http://bit.ly/TurkeyCreekSignup.

Come Hell or High Water watch parties are a partnership with Reel Power.

By any means, including memes

Let your networks know about the film by forwarding the newsletter, sharing the meme above on social media, or Tweeting about #Battle4TurkeyCreek. Here are some groups that have been getting the word out.

River Network

The network of more than 2,000 state, regional and local grassroots organizations advocating for clean water features a “Watershed Wednesday” post about the film on its homepage, urging members to catch Come Hell or High Water online and spread the word.

Sierra Club

Leslie Fields, Director of Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships joined the panel discussion about the film at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital and Sierra Club helped promote the broadcast and live chat through social media.

“Turkey Creek is emblematic of so much of what is going on in the world right now … These communities were not supposed to survive, but they’ve survived. And the solutions that they’re coming up with are the solutions that we all really need to pay attention to and lift up.”

– Leslie Fields, Sierra Club director of Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships

Thank you to so many more who have been helping to spread the word about Come Hell or High Water, including American Film Showcase, Anacostia Community Museum, Audubon Society, Berkeley Film Foundation, Bridge The Gulf, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Fledgling Fund, Grist, Gulf Coast Fund, Gulf Future Coalition, Gulf Restoration Network, Land of Opportunity, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Mississippi Film Office, Mississippi Heritage Trust, Moving Forward Network, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, William Winter Institute, Sundance Institute, Urban Strategies Council and Zinn Education Project.

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San Francisco May 31

The upcoming Bay Area premiere at the San Francisco Green Film Festival includes a discussion moderated by Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll with filmmaker Leah Mahan, Derrick Evans of Turkey Creek, Judy Hatcher of Pesticide Action Network and Daniel Iacofano of MIG community planning. Reserve tickets for this event at 7 p.m. on May 31 at the Roxie: http://bit.ly/TheBattleforTurkeyCreek

Invite your friends by sharing the Facebook event page or sharing this post.

From the front lines

Leading up to the WORLD broadcast in late April, environmental justice and urban water groups held preview screenings of Come Hell or High Water.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice at Long Beach Art Theatre

In Long Beach, California, Angelo Logan of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice organized a screening at the Art Theatre because he saw parallels between the Turkey Creek story and the struggles faced by communities in the path of the 710 Corridor, once known as the Los Angeles River Freeway. KCET has been documenting public concerns about the 710 and posted this article about the screening: “From Mississippi to California, Communities Interlink with ‘Come Hell or High Water‘”

KCET Departures project asks “How would you improve the 710 Corridor?”

In Mobile, Alabama, at the regional Justice Leadership Summit, a screening of the film and keynote address by Derrick Evans was accompanied by a workshop led by Bridge the Gulf, Crescent City Media Group and Working Films on using film and media for social change.

These two events happened on the same day and Gulf Coast leaders in Mobile recorded a video message that was screened after the film in Long Beach that night, saying “We’re with you!”

Message from Justice Leadership Summit participants in Mobile, Alabama …

Updates on events can be found on ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com.

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