Health

Devil Put the Coal in the Ground

Devil Put the Coal in the Ground

Lucas Sabean, Peter Hutchison/2021/82 min/Health & Environment, Energy, Historical Perspectives

Sunday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

MIDWEST PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Uniquely structured upon the personal storytelling of native West Virginians, “Devil Put The Coal In The Ground” is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and its decline. From the realities of a crumbling economy, to the ravages of the opioid epidemic, to the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health—the film is a cautionary tale of unfettered corporate power, and an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia.

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No Climate. No Equity. No Deal. + Wasteland: Iowa

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No Climate. No Equity. No Deal. + Wasteland: Iowa

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Southeast Environmental
Task Force, Chicago, IL [South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, McKinley Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, IL [South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Oak Park, IL [W Suburbs]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

NO CLIMATE. NO EQUITY. NO DEAL.

Fenell Doremus, Danny Alpert/2022/21 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Advocacy

FILM DESCRIPTION: This film follows the grassroots movements in Illinois that led to the passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. 

WASTELAND: IOWA

Elisa Gambino/2022/28 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Health & Environment, Environmental Advocacy, Food & Agriculture

FILM DESCRIPTION: For more than 150 years farmers in Iowa have been raising corn & pigs and the people of Iowa have been drinking untreated water from rivers polluted with nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and livestock excrement.