Rights of Nature: A Global Movement Screening with Save Our Great Salt Lake

677 South 200 West,Salt Lake City UT 84101

24 October, 2022

Description

Join us at Brewvies on Monday, October 24th at 6 pm! Save Our Great Salt Lake is exploring the Rights of Nature movement and how we might pursue Rights for Great Salt Lake.We're working with the Earth Law Center on a nonbinding resolution declaring Great Salt Lake's right to exist, flourish naturally, and be restored. We're excited to continue this conversation with the screening of Rights of Nature: A Global Movement. Before the screening, we'll chat about the US Magnesium permit to extend their canals and pull more water out of Great Salt Lake and then HEAL Utah will guide us in writing public comment. We'll also have Save Our Great Salt Lake artist posters, totes, and yard signs available for a donation. Film screening will start at 7 pm (52 min runtime) followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Hal Crimmel and Isaac Goeckeritz. This event is 21+. This event is free, but space is limited, so please wait to register until you're sure you can join us and let us know if you need to cancel your registration! About the Film: Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia indigenous communities have viewed themselves as part of nature. As pressures on ecosystems mount and as conventional laws seem increasingly inadequate to address environmental degradation, communities, cities, regions and countries around the world are turning to a new legal strategy known as The Rights of Nature. This film takes viewers on a journey that explores the more recent origins of this legal concept, and its application and implementation in Ecuador, New Zealand, and the United States. Learn how constitutional reforms adopted in Ecuador have helped recognize nature as a legal entity, and how partnerships between the Māori and the government of New Zealand have led to personhood status for rivers, lakes and forests, and a renewed sense of balance between people and nature. See how the Rights of Nature function in the urban setting of Santa Monica, California. The film explores the successes and challenges inherent in creating new legal structures that have the potential to maintain and restore ecosystems while achieving a balance between humans and nature. The film has been screened across the globe at film festivals, NGO events and at schools and community organizations and has been viewed by at least 500,000 people.