EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY

Monday, May 4, 1pm

Peacock Hall

Earth’s Greatest Enemy, by director, Abby Martin, is a groundbreaking anti-war, environmental documentary.  

The Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter, spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe.  It is exempt from international climate agreements, rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, and its 

emissions go uncounted, therefore, unreported.

Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism.

This film is being cosponsored by Friends of Mt Diablo Peace & Justice Center club.

2 hours, with captions.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?si=KwPdWtitoFAKNaDN

Available streaming for $10.99 on

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/earthsgreatestenemy

Recommended simple actions to take are available at: 

https://www.codepink.org/act

ESCAPE FROM EXTINCTION: REWILDING

Wednesday, April 8 at 7 PM

Peacock Hall

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this 2024 documentary highlights success stories on both land and sea -- global conservation efforts across six continents that restore ecosystems by reintroducing native species of both plants and animals. The film showcases initiatives that combat biodiversity loss, and restore natural, self-regulating habitats. It emphasizes the international "30x30" campaign, aiming to protect 30% of the Earth's lands and oceans by 2030. The film’s producer, American Humane, provides hope by showcasing actionable solutions to the environmental crisis. The filmmaker claims: "rewilding has the potential to bring back hundreds of thousands of species from the brink of extinction".

91 minutes with captions.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSF5F6Ff-so

EVERY LITTLE THING

Wednesday, March 11 at 7 pm

Peacock Hall

Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken’s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and Wasabi, celebrating their tiny victories and lamenting their tragedies. Through Terry's eyes, each bird becomes memorable, mighty and heroic. Her compassion and empathy serves as a reminder that grace can be found in the smallest of acts and the tiniest of creatures. An example of goodness in a world that desperately needs more of it.

133 minutes, with captions.

Trailer

https://youtu.be/AkBZepthRBg?si=OGGcRAmmOlsJhBGi

SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO

Wednesday, February 11

American buffalo once roamed wild in the US, numbering in the tens of millions. Their decline to mere thousands parallels the decline of Indigenous First Nations as shown in Director Tasha Hubbard’s award-winning documentary. Filmed near Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, Hubbard’s film showcases the ‘rematriation’ of Buffalo herds, capturing the beauty and majesty of these ancient animals, the culture of "Buffalo consciousness”, and the rebuilding of sovereignty for the people of the First Nations. 1 hour 39 minutes, with captions.

This documentary was preceded by a short film that highlights the unexpected benefits to the ecology of the land and other wildlife when buffalo were reintroduced to arid rangeland, rewriting conservation methods of the future.

Trailer

https://youtu.be/zzDRuX9-Ios?si=FxivfdqmReQChdsJ

TO SAVE OUR COAST 

Wednesday, January 14

This new documentary covers the David and Goliath story of the successful 1972 California grassroots campaign of the voter-initiative Proposition 20, which created the California Coastal Commission to protect public access and coastal ecosystems against development. Interviews with some of California’s greatest environmental leaders including artists, hippies, and politicians along with historic footage of the battle against powerful interests like oil and real estate, detail how citizen action led to landmark legislation, ensuring California's coastline remains a public treasure. The California Coastal Commission is widely recognized as the international flagship of coastal regulation. An optional short discussion follows the screening. 

85 minutes long with captions

Full film: https://youtu.be/KQNo5-CZuHQ

Deepwater Horizon

Monday, January 5

The Deepwater Horizon was the oil rig with the deepest well (3 miles) in the Gulf of Mexico, connected to the surface by a mile long pipeline – until it exploded and was engulfed in flames in April 2010, killing 11 workers. It leaked 4.9 million barrels of oil over months. Rated the worst man-made environmental disaster in the Americas, it continues to impact marine ecosystems today. British Petroleum was responsible, yet continues to have many active rigs in the Gulf and has recently been awarded a permit for a bigger rig to go even deeper. The heroic crew is enacted by Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, and Gina Rodriquez. John Malkovich plays a BP executive who was on board. 

1 hr 47 minutes with captions.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/S-UPJyEHmM0?si=BrjLNDCr2Pxzmpyd

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