{"id":1015,"date":"2014-11-13T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2014-11-13T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:51:50","slug":"come-hell-high-water-december-broadcast-facing-race-bay-area-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/2014\/11\/13\/come-hell-high-water-december-broadcast-facing-race-bay-area-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Hell or High Water – December broadcast, Facing Race and Bay Area events"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t
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Festival goers in D.C. snow (Photo by Lolita Parker, Jr., 2014)<\/p><\/div>\n

Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek<\/em>\u00a0will\u00a0air<\/a>\u00a0again on Dec. 16 and\u00a0stream<\/a>\u00a0until Jan. 15. November events include a\u00a0screening<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0workshop<\/a>\u00a0at Facing Race and three San Francisco\u00a0Bay Area<\/a>\u00a0screenings celebrating the Sierra Club’s presentation of the\u00a0Robert Bullard Environmental Justice Award\u00a0to Rose Johnson.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u201cA POWERFUL STORY\u00a0<\/strong>of one man\u2019s good fight.\u201d<\/h4>\n
– C. Cassady,\u00a0VIDEO LIBRARIAN<\/div>\n
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\u201cWE HIGHLY RECOMMEND<\/strong>\u00a0this documentary film<\/h4>\n

about a middle school teacher who leads an environmental justice<\/h4>\n

battle in a historic African American community in Mississippi.\u201d<\/h4>\n
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– Deborah Menkart,\u00a0TEACHING FOR CHANGE<\/p>\n

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\u201cVIEWERS WILL BE TOUCHED … and gain insight into<\/strong><\/h4>\n

the region\u2019s\u00a0historical, environmental, and racial issues.\u201d<\/h4>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– Candance Smith,\u00a0BOOKLIST<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BROADCAST & STREAM<\/h2>\n

Come Hell or High Water<\/em>\u00a0will air again on the WORLD Channel series\u00a0America ReFramed<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on Dec. 16 and will stream \u00a0for free for 30 days, from Dec. 17 to Jan.15 at\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/TurkeyCreek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can watch the film and the post-broadcast conversation with Derrick Evans, journalist\u00a0Brentin Mock<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0America ReFramed<\/em>\u00a0host Natasha Del Toro. Then visit these two great online projects to hear directly from Gulf Coast communities about ongoing challenges and groundbreaking solutions nine years after Hurricane Katrina:\u00a0BridgeTheGulfProject.org<\/a>\u00a0and LandofOpportunityInteractive’s\u00a0Katrina\/Sandy<\/a>\u00a0timeline.<\/p>\n

UPCOMING SCREENINGS<\/h2>\n

Visit\u00a0ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com<\/a>\u00a0for links to upcoming events.<\/b><\/p>\n

Nov. 14 &\u00a015<\/b>\u00a0– Facing Race<\/b>\u00a0“Race Flicks” Film Festival and Reel Justice workshop<\/p>\n

Nov. 17<\/b>\u00a0– UC Berkeley<\/b>\u00a0co-sponsored by Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning & Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism<\/p>\n

Nov. 18<\/b>\u00a0– New Parkway Theater<\/b>\u00a0co-sponsored by Berkeley Film Foundation & Oakland Film Society<\/p>\n

Nov. 22<\/b>\u00a0– Roxie Theater\u00a0<\/b>celebration of Rose Johnson’s Sierra Club Bullard Award co-sponsored by San Francisco Green Film Festival<\/p>\n

FALL HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n

Recent events include:<\/p>\n

Campus Events<\/h3>\n

Howard University Energy & Environmental Law Society,\u00a0Humboldt University Campus Dialogue on Race,\u00a0Ole Miss Racial Reconciliation Week,\u00a0Texas A&M Campus Sustainability Day<\/p>\n

Community Events<\/h3>\n

Gullah\/Geechee Sea Island Coalition,\u00a0North Carolina Environmental Justice Network\u00a0(Read Working Films’ report<\/a> on these events, “An Organizing Tool for Environmental Justice in the South”)<\/p>\n

Practitioner Events<\/h3>\n
Greenbuild International Film Festival,\u00a0EPA Office of Environmental Justice\u00a0in partnership with the Planning and the Black Community Division of the American Planning Association\u00a0and the DC Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects<\/div>\n
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TURKEY CREEK IN THE NEWS<\/h2>\n

“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working with Turkey Creek and North Gulfport leaders to start a Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice,”\u00a0Sun Herald, 10\/27\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Through a workforce training program funded by BP oil recovery funds, young men\u00a0survey water quality in the bayou that feeds Turkey Creek,\u00a0WLOX, 10\/28\/14<\/a>
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NEWSLETTER<\/h2>\n

This news is from the November Come Hell or High Water<\/em> newsletter. Sign up for future issues here<\/a> (Click on “Subscribe” in the upper left corner).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t

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DVDs from Bullfrog Films<\/h2>\n

Order through this\u00a0page<\/a>\u00a0on ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com and you\u2019ll receive a discount from Bullfrog Films.<\/h4>\n <\/div>
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