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A Powerful Film Documentary On Climate Change, Based On Naomi Klein’s Best-Selling Book
An Invitation from the Unitarian Congregation of Niagara and the South Niagara Chapter of The Council of Canadians
Posted February 8th, 2016 on Niagara At Large
Niagara, Ontario – On Tuesday, March 1st at 6:30 p.m., you are invited to a free screening of the film documentary ‘This Changes Everything’, directed by Avi Lewis and based on the book by Naomi Klein.
Naomi Klein – Canadian activist and author of ‘This Changes Everything’ – the acclaimed book that inspired the film documentary by the same name.
All are welcome to this free-of-charge event. See the notice below for more information.
The Unitarian Congregation of Niagara and the Council of Canadians invite you to: This Changes Everything, a Powerful documentary by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
Free Screening at: Unitarian Congregation of Niagara, 223 Church St., St. Catharines, Ontario, 6.30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
“Our economic model is at war with life on earth.”
This Changes Everything is about the effectiveness of people working together and that message is most powerful when people watch it together.
“We are all part of this movement. We must “Change or be changed.”
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there.
Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
The evening will include a brief introduction of the LEAP Manifesto, a document which calls for us to speak out and act for a Canada based on care for the earth and for one another. LEAP was initiated last spring at a two-day meeting in Toronto attended by 60 representatives from Canada’s Indigenous rights, social and food justice, environmental, faith-based and labour movements.
The idea was to create a space to not just “Say No” to the worst attacks on human rights and environmental standards, but to dream together about the world we actually want and how we can get there.
Thousands of Canadians have already signed the manifesto. It was recognized that, “Small steps are no longer enough. This Leap Year, 2016, is our time to leap”.
Please MARK your calendars and circulate this notice widely through your outwardly expanding networks. Thanks.
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