PENSACOLA, FL: Film Viewing of the Condor and the Eagle

The film documents the stories of four well-known Native environmental spokespeople who are at the forefront of a perspective shift in the identity of their people, from forgotten voices to powerful and influential leaders. They have struggled with feelings of isolation their entire lives and are now discovering the power of their shared voices to bring change to the entire world.

When revered Native elder Casey Camp-Horinek traveled to New York in 2014 to lead the People's Climate March she was met with overwhelming support from the people of her sister nations in North and South America. With the continuous expansion of pipeline projects throughout the Americas these Indigenous women and men represent the last remaining landholders who refuse to sacrifice their territories to transnational oil companies. Their unification in New York first and later in Paris are among many similar and burgeoning initiatives, mostly led by Indigenous women, that have inspired people around the world to rise for the protection of the earth and give life to the climate justice movement.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo and Bryan Parras's lands were devastated by the oil industry and it has remained an acceptable secret, with no coverage from the media, and limited support from their governments. Even as her people were dying in the Alberta tar sands, Melina's sister was recently murdered: violence against the Earth, begets violence against women. This tragic event set into motion her quest for justice, which will lead her half way across the globe. Bryan has always lived in the energy capital of the world, Houston. He grew up uprooted from his Indigenous origins until the day he met with other Indigenous people who vowed to bring back respect for the land and ancient cultures. So begins his journey to rediscover his true self, the meaning of being Indigenous.

Filmed in the verdant jungles of the Amazon (Ecuador and Peru), the brightly colored cultures of the Pan American First Nations communities (Vancouver, Alberta) and the United States Indian tribes (Oklahoma), viewers glimpse extraordinary beauty in the places, faces and regalia of traditional people. The Indigenous heartfelt pursuit for self-discovery, self- reclamation, and a way of life, is chronicled as they build alliances around the world (in Peru, Ecuador, Paris, Washington and New York) with their eagle feathers in one hand and their revolution in the other, because to them a crime against Mother Earth is a crime against humanity.

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The event is being brought to you by Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola. Escambia County Democratic Environmental Caucus, Pensacola Bay Area League of Women Voters Natural Resource Committee, Earth Ethics, Inc., Move to Amend, and Francis M. Weston Audubon Society.

WHEN
March 23, 2020 at 3:00pm - 5pm
WHERE
Ever'man Educational Center
327 W Garden St
Pensacola, FL 32502
United States
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CONTACT
Mike Potters · · 850-512-4893

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