{"id":1128,"date":"2015-03-05T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T18:52:07","slug":"north-carolina-environmental-justice-film-tour-getting-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/2015\/03\/05\/north-carolina-environmental-justice-film-tour-getting-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Environmental Justice Film Tour &#8211; From Witness To Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69f5bfe89eba5\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_gallery wpb_content_element clearfix\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div 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src=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WUNC-exterior-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"WUNC exterior\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-group.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[rel-541076069]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-group-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"UNC group\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Asheville-Cemetery_calendar-1024x792.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[rel-541076069]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Asheville-Cemetery_calendar-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Asheville Cemetery_calendar\" \/><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/southashevilleassoc-1024x595.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[rel-541076069]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/southashevilleassoc-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"southashevilleassoc\" \/><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69f5bfe8b81c2\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<blockquote><p>\n<b><br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t watch the film and consume their pain. Don\u2019t let it stop there. How dare we ask them to carry this burden \u2026 We have to stand up. None of this \u2018I saw the movie. It was wonderful.\u2019 \u2026 What are we going to do? Because it is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span>\u00a0as a society. We are complicit in this. We cannot continue to say we are an equal society and then let this happen and contribute to it.\u201d<\/b>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These words from professor Danielle Spurlock were spoken to an audience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/uncnews.unc.edu\/2015\/01\/21\/screening-award-winning-documentary-highlights-racial-environmental-justice\/\">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>. Spurlock teaches city and regional planning at the university and was one of the panelists for the discussion of\u00a0<b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/\">Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek<\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0on the final night of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/2015\/02\/07\/environmental-justice-film-tour-north-carolina\/\">Environmental Justice Film Tour<\/a>\u00a0(February 10\u201312) organized by\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/workingfilms.org\/blog\/come-hell-or-high-water-the-battle-for-turkey-creek-tours-north-carolina\/\">Working Films<\/a><\/b>. The film had screened at campuses in Asheville and Greensboro on the previous nights, and students, faculty, local residents and community leaders had come together to talk about issues in the film that were relevant to North Carolina. The tour grew out of screenings last fall documented by Working Films in \u201c<b><a href=\"http:\/\/workingfilms.org\/blog\/come-hell-or-high-water-the-battle-for-turkey-creek-an-organizing-tool-for-environmental-justice-in-the-south\/\">An Organizing Tool for Environmental Justice In The South<\/a><\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1178\" alt=\"UNC panel\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-panel.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-panel.jpg 960w, https:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/UNC-panel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>Spurlock was following up on comments by panelist Omega Wilson of\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wera-nc.org\/\">West End Revitalization\u00a0Association<\/a><\/b>, who worked to stop a major highway corridor through Mebane, NC that would displace African American communities. Like Turkey Creek, local cemeteries hold ancestors born into slavery. When community members learned about the road that had been planned for 15 years without their input, they called on the U.S. Department of Justice. A moratorium was placed on the road development, but other pressing issues include toxic contamination from old factory sites and plans for a new industrial park, distribution center and a 40-acre plastic bottle plant. Wilson spoke about the systemic nature of the problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c<b>This is an institutional issue.<\/b>\u00a0<b>This kind of inequity will always be there. There always has to be a public voice that\u2019s organized and we have to realize that you\u2019re not going to cure it and say \u2018Oh, the cancer is gone!\u2019 There has to be vigilance for organizations to train another generation \u2026 Fighting for public rights and welfare has to be something that is studied and worked on in an institution like this (UNC). It has to be part of your curriculum.\u201d<\/b>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier that day, both Spurlock and Wilson joined a conversation with filmmaker Leah Mahan on WUNC\u2019s &#8220;The State of Things&#8221; with host Frank Stasio, which you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/post\/come-hell-or-high-water\">listen to here<\/a>. <em>(The Chapel Hill community was in shock about the students who had been killed there days before. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/post\/were-all-one-chapel-hill-shooting-victim-said-storycorps-talk\">first part of the program<\/a>\u00a0featured an interview with Sister Jabeen, principal of Al-Iman, who had been interviewed by one of the students for a StoryCorps project last summer.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WUNC-studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WUNC studio\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/WUNC-studio-1024x740.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tour began two days earlier at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warren-wilson.edu\/community-news\/come-hell-or-high-water-screening-on-feb-10\">Warren Wilson College<\/a>, where interest in the film on campus stemmed in part from of the school&#8217;s relationship to another historic African American cemetery &#8212; through an interdisciplinary program called the Appalachian Semester. Originally founded as a farm school, the college has an approach to learning based on a &#8220;Triad&#8221; of academics, work and service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Warren-Wilson-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warren Wilson farm\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Warren-Wilson-farm-1024x577.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a>Students and faculty have worked with members of the St. John &#8220;A&#8221; Baptist Church community to care for the historic South Asheville Cemetery and build greater awareness of it. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southashevillecemetery.net\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0about the cemetery includes a map of 2000 graves created in collaboration George Gibson and George Taylor, who\u2019ve worked for more than 30 years to preserve the cemetery. Learn more from this NPR story: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/19\/323576758\/using-google-maps-to-document-slave-history\">Using Google Earth To Document Slave History<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/southashevillecemetery.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"southashevillecemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/southashevillecemetery.jpeg\" width=\"666\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a>The following night\u00a0<i>Come Hell or High Water<\/i>\u00a0was shown in Greensboro at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.edu\/features%5Creleasedocumentarycomehell15.pdf\">Bennett College<\/a>, a historically black college for women founded in 1873. Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, director of Africana Women&#8217;s Studies at the college, introduced the film by talking about the history of social activism on campus. This history includes student leadership in planning the 1960 sit-ins at the Greensboro Woolworth\u2019s lunch counter that sparked a youth-led movement for racial equality across the South. In a statement before the event, Johnson said the Turkey Creek story is \u201cbeing played out throughout the country as well as in North Carolina where the most vulnerable communities face the challenges of economic underdevelopment, gentrification, natural and manmade disasters, economic deprivation, and environmental injustice. Documentaries such as these educate us not only about the issues but encourage us to move from witness to action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Woolworths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woolworths\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Woolworths-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a>The Greensboro event was co-presented by the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters, and local organizers were on hand to talk about environmental justice issues and offer volunteer opportunities. NCLCV followed up with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nclcv.org\/blog\/TurkeyCreek\/\">a post about the event<\/a>\u00a0asking readers to consider \u201cWhat place, or community, or way of life calls you to act on its behalf?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bennett-College.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bennett College\" src=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bennett-College-1024x729.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Related resources and opportunities for engagement<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPCOMING EVENTS<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 5-8: &#8220;Changing Currents&#8221; Public Interest Environmental Law Conference 2015.<\/strong> Derrick Evans of Turkey Creek will be a keynote speaker on March 7 and will also take part in a discussion following a screening of <em>Come Hell or High Water\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0March 8. The conference takes place at the University of Oregon Law School. Now in its 33rd year, PIELC unites thousands of activists, attorneys, students, scientists, and community members from over 50 countries around the globe to share their ideas, experience, and expertise. With keynote addresses, workshops, films, celebrations, and over 130 panels, PIELC is world-renowned for its energy, innovation, and inspiration. Event <a href=\"http:\/\/pielc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-PIELC-Brochure_13.pdf\">brochure<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsvpbook.com\/event.php?430918\">registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about this and related events by following the <a href=\"http:\/\/pielc.org\/\">Public Interest Environmental Law Conference<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIELCUO\">@PIELCUO<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>March 7 &amp; 8: Environmental Justice Events at the 50th Anniversary of\u00a0Bloody Sunday<\/b>. This weekend, environmental and climate justice leaders will take part in the anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. A tribunal \u2013\u00a0\u201cChange Is Gonna Come: Advancing an Environmental and Climate Justice Agenda in the South\u201d \u2013 will be held on Saturday. On Sunday the Environmental and Climate Justice Contingent will march together across the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Registration:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/selma50.com\">www.selma50.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about this and related events by following the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/programs\/entry\/climate-justice\">NAACP Climate Justice Initiative<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>March 12-19: Missouri tour of Coal Ash Stories<\/b>. Imagine being afraid to drink your water, take a bath, fish, or farm. These are the fears facing communities affected by coal ash pits across Missouri.\u00a0Coal Ash Stories\u00a0events will pair four short films with a discussion led by those who have worked on, and are impacted by the issue in Missouri.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about this and related events by following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/workingfilms.org\/blog\/\">Working Films<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/workingfilms\">@workingfilms<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CoalAsh?src=hash\">#CoalAsh<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReelPower?src=hash\">#ReelPower<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>March 26-29: HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Climate Change Conference.\u00a0<\/b>Dillard University&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dscej.org\/\">Deep South Center for Environmental Justice<\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with the Texas Southern University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bjmlspa.tsu.edu\/\">Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs<\/a>\u00a0will host the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscej.org\/index.php\/component\/rseventspro\/event\/13-3rd-annual-hbcu-student-climate-change-conference\">Third Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference<\/a>\u00a0March 26-29 in New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn about this and related events by following\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/drrobertbullard.com\/\">Dr. Robert Bullard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrBobBullard\">@DrBobBullard<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateJustice?src=hash\">#ClimateJustice<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RESOURCES<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgethegulfproject.org\/\">Bridge The Gulf<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BridgeTheGulf\">@BridgeTheGulf<\/a>), a community journalism project that shares first-person accounts from the Gulf Coast\u2019s frontline communities, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bridgethegulfproject.org\/blogs\/derrick-evans\">Turkey Creek<\/a>\u00a0and Mobile\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bridgethegulfproject.org\/blogs\/joe-womack\">Africatown<\/a>\u00a0neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/ej\/\">Environmental Justice In Action Blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0an EPA website that includes a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/ej\/2012\/12\/1005\/\">post by Omega Wilson<\/a>, who was a member of the U.S. EPA\u2019s National Environmental\u00a0Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) and Advisory Committee for the Environmental\u00a0Leadership Program \u2013 Southeast Regional Network.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/landloss.org\/index.html\">Land Loss Prevention Project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Land_Loss\">@Land_Loss<\/a>) has worked with communities across the state of North Carolina to fight against environmental inequities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">League of Conservation Voters<\/a>\u00a0(<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCVoters\" data-send-impression-cookie=\"true\">@LCVoters<\/a>) is a national organization advocating for strong environmental policies at the federal level and electing pro-environmental candidates who will prioritize such policies.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nclcv.org\/\">The North Carolina League of Conservation Voters<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nclcv\">@nclcv<\/a>) is member of LCV and is a non-partisan advocacy organization working statewide to protect, preserve, and enhance the quality of life for North Carolina citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncejn.org\/\">North Carolina Environmental Justice Network<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0works \u201cto promote health and environmental equality for all people of North Carolina through community action for clean industry, safe work places and fair access to all human and natural resources,\u201d through \u201corganizing, advocacy, research, and education based on principles of economic equity and democracy for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\/2015\/03\/new-environment-teaching-activities\/\">Zinn Education Project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZinnEdProject\">@ZinnEdProject<\/a>) recently posted \u201cNew Teaching Activities on the Environment,\u201d including A People\u2019s Curriculum for the Earth, which includes\u00a0<i>Come Hell or High Water<\/i>\u00a0as a resource.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thank you to Working Films and the other sponsors of the North Carolina Environmental Film Tour:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Office of the\u00a0President and The Wilson Inclusion, Diversity, &amp; Equity (WIDE) Office at Warren Wilson College.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Africana Women\u2019s Studies Program at Bennett College in partnership with the NC Environmental Justice Tour and in conjunction with the Division of Humanities at Bennett College, and the NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Institute for the Environment at UNC-CH and UNC-CH Department of Communication Studies, in partnership with the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div id=\"fws_69f5bfe8b84ac\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid standard_section   \" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"col span_12 dark \">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container col\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"iwithtext\"><div class=\"col span_2 iwt\"> <i class=\"icon-default-style linecon-icon-vynil accent-color\"><\/i> <\/div><div class=\"col span_10 iwt\"> \n<h2>DVDs from Bullfrog Films<\/h2>\n<h4>Order through this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/about-the-film\/buythefilm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/leahmahan.com\/comehellorhighwater\/about-the-film\/buythefilm\/\">page<\/a>\u00a0on ComeHellorHighWaterFilm.com and you\u2019ll receive a discount from Bullfrog Films.<\/h4>\n <\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t watch the film and consume their pain. Don\u2019t let it stop there. How dare we ask them to carry this burden \u2026 We have to stand up. None of this \u2018I saw the movie. 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