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Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport is a new one-hour documentary about the events, people and politics behind the struggle to preserve a rural area of New Jersey between 1959 and 1968. The fight began when the powerful Port of New York Authority announced plans to construct a huge 10,000 acre "j...
Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport is a new one-hour documentary about the events, people and politics behind the struggle to preserve a rural area of New Jersey between 1959 and 1968. The fight began when the powerful Port of New York Authority announced plans to construct a huge 10,000 acre "jetport" 26 miles west of New York City in a little-known place called the Great Swamp. In the name of progress, entire towns would be o...
Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport is a new one-hour documentary about the events, people and politics behind the struggle to preserve a rural area of New Jersey between 1959 and 1968. The fight began when the powerful Port of New York Authority announced plans to construct a huge 10,000 acre "jetport" 26 miles west of New York City in a little-known place called the Great Swamp. In the name of progress, entire towns would be obliterated, the aquifer and wildlife destroyed, and a way-of-life threatened for thousands of people.
The events that followed became one of the most defining environmental confrontations of its time - a grassroots movement that started in a local high school and grew to historic proportions. It was a battle that took almost a decade, a President and an Act of Congress to stop, and ultimately led to the creation of a national treasure - the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Two years in the making, Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport was produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Scott Morris, co-produced by Larry Fast and narrated by Blythe Danner. The film features in-depth interviews with residents, historians and officials, and a rich visual tapestry of historic film footage, old photographs and high-end cinematography of the Great Swamp today. The inspiring story continues to resonate as a model for community action in the face of powerful forces.
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Dust
A group of former miners from the mountainous villages of Sichuan take on the government in their bid to get compensation for the deadly lung disease pneumoconiosis. He Bing is a fighter. He has pneumoconiosis; his father has pneumoconiosis, as does his brother. Another brother has already died from the disease. T...
A group of former miners from the mountainous villages of Sichuan take on the government in their bid to get compensation for the deadly lung disease pneumoconiosis. He Bing is a fighter. He has pneumoconiosis; his father has pneumoconiosis, as does his brother. Another brother has already died from the disease. Together with his comrade in arms, Chen Xiezhong, He Bing travels back to the dust-filled mines where they contracted the disease in ord...
A group of former miners from the mountainous villages of Sichuan take on the government in their bid to get compensation for the deadly lung disease pneumoconiosis. He Bing is a fighter. He has pneumoconiosis; his father has pneumoconiosis, as does his brother. Another brother has already died from the disease. Together with his comrade in arms, Chen Xiezhong, He Bing travels back to the dust-filled mines where they contracted the disease in order to file a lawsuit against the government. Chen Xiezhong has done more than anyone to bring the miners together, but the disease eventually took its toll and he passed away in 2012. As a final gesture, he donated his corneas for research at the hospital that had taken care of him in his last months.
The miners are under constant pressure, harassment, and intimidation from the local authorities who see them as threats to social stability. But they never give up. The battle for compensation is continued by Hu Qihong, who grew up in the same village as Chen Xiezhong, and who has now married, Zhao Mingxiu, the widow of another villager who died from pneumoconiosis. We travel back home with Hu Qihong to see first-hand the devastation that this terrible disease, combined with the heartless attitude of local officials, has wrought in this picturesque but profoundly sad mountain village.
Director’s Note:
Pneumoconiosis is the by far the most prevalent occupational disease in China. Statistics reveal that China is home to over six million people with pneumoconiosis. Many of them have already died of this disease, and more will follow.
Our film crew investigates the stories of several workers from Muchuan County in Sichuan, who have all contracted pneumoconiosis while working in the mines. We focus on the worker activists who are standing up for their rights and demanding compensation. Life is hard and the challenges are many, but these enlightened individuals are striding out on the rocky path in defense of their rights.
At the time the film was completed, a large number of workers with pneumoconiosis from remote parts of China, were still flocking to the coastal cities in search of work. Many others were stuck in the mountains, helpless, awaiting death.
They have done their best, but their plight goes largely unnoticed. Their lives come and go like dust, occasionally flickering under the sun, then disappearing into nothingness in the blink of an eye.
We hope that this film can arouse public interest in this terrible disease and the struggle of China’s workers so that their lives can improved by greater interaction with society at large.
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Walking in Two Worlds
Worlds collide in the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest on earth, when the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) turns tribes into corporations and sparks a lengthy logging frenzy.
Walking in Two Worlds journeys to the Tongass to reveal its splendor and shed light on the devastation...
Worlds collide in the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest on earth, when the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) turns tribes into corporations and sparks a lengthy logging frenzy.
Walking in Two Worlds journeys to the Tongass to reveal its splendor and shed light on the devastation and division resulting from the Settlement Act. The Tongass is rich with old-growth trees, salmon-filled rivers and wildlife. Alaska’...
Worlds collide in the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest on earth, when the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) turns tribes into corporations and sparks a lengthy logging frenzy.
Walking in Two Worlds journeys to the Tongass to reveal its splendor and shed light on the devastation and division resulting from the Settlement Act. The Tongass is rich with old-growth trees, salmon-filled rivers and wildlife. Alaska’s Tlingit and Haida Indian tribes have depended on this forest for their culture and survival.
The Settlement Act resulted from a massive collision of Washington bullying, big business and Native American naiveté. The result was a swath of tragic scars in a magnificent forest wilderness. Natives struggled to adapt to new roles as corporate shareholders.
For one Native brother and sister, this transition divided them. While the brother led the native corporation's clear-cut logging, his sister became a fierce leader in the battle to stop the destruction. Then a life-threatening illness drew them back together as one sibling offered the other a life-saving gift.
A story of division and redemption plays out showing the possibility of healing both the forest and the native community.
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The Carbon Rush
Compañeros De Lucha = Brothers in arms
Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle
Eye to Eye, Episode 25, Attilah Springer and Muhammed Muwakil
The First 70
Our Daily Poison
Reveals how everyday chemicals-pesticides, Aspartame and plastics-may be slowly poisoning us.
***-1/2 'OUR DAILY POISON makes a strong case that corporate interests have trumped truth at the expense of consumers' health, offering a sobering expose of industries intent on profit over safely-and governments asleep at the helm. Highly Recommended.' -Video Librarian
'Highly Recommended. Robin provides information...through a superb blend of archival footage and documentation, as well as personal and expert interviews. ...It offers a fascinating and somewhat horrifying look at the production of food across the globe as it makes its way from farmers' fields to our plates. The cinematography and sound quality are excellent. OUR DAILY POISON would make a great addition to any library, public, academic, or classroom collection.' -Educational Media Reviews Online
'A masterly and implacable investigation.'-Madame Figaro Magazine
'Can be watched like a thriller.'-Terra Eco
'The elements brought forth by Marie Monique Robin-in particular on the lack of independent research centers-deserve a real debate.'-Challenges
'A shocking documentary...complete and well researched.'-Reforme
'A meticulous investigation.'-VSD
'The battery of evidence is chilling.' -Marianne Magazine
'The film serves as a good model of scientific methodology, the interpretation of results based on personal perspective, and the role of peer review and independent studies in science. Media and government play a prominent role as well. And if government testing sounds kind of boring, you haven't seen the film yet.' -National Science Teachers Association Recommends
'Sobering stuff' -Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Smart, well-researched and thoroughly compelling' -Cook and Taste
'Highlights the need for a new paradigm in the assessment of chemical risks' -Health and Environment Alliance
'Uncovers the hidden dangers in our daily food' -Slow Food Europe
'If we are what we eat, we may be in trouble' -The Science Teacher
'A shocking account of the dangerous chemical compounds that have infiltrated our food chain' -UTNE Reader
