"DISRUPTION": FILM-Grassroots Global Revolt Answer

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'Disruption': Film Offers Grassroots Global Revolt as Key Answer to Climate Crisis

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"The most dangerous threat we've ever faced meets a movement whose time has come."

Published on Friday, September 05, 2014 by Common Dreams

Produced by justice activists ahead of planned Climate People's March & Mobilization later this month, the documentary is being released for online screenings nationwide this Sunday by Jon Queally, staff writer

Ahead of a mass demonstration scheduled for New York City on September 21 that will take place alongside a global mobilization aimed at world leaders meeting at the United Nations that week, climate campaigners have been ratcheting up their messaging to make their position as clear as the scientific consensus that informs it: The planet faces an unprecedented crisis due to human-caused global warming and climate change. As governments and business leaders have refused to act, it is ordinary people, pushing radically from below, who must now mobilize.

Part of a new story-telling and mobilizing effort, 350.org—one of the key leaders of the upcoming "People's Climate March & Mobilization"—teamed up with filmmakers to produce a new documentary film called "Disruption," which will premiere via online screenings in people's homes and public venues this Sunday evening, September 7, from 7 to 9 PM EST. A public screening at The New School in New York City will include a follow-up Q&A with some of the climate movement's most recognized leaders, some of whom are featured in the film.

As the poster for the film states: "The most dangerous threat we've ever faced meets a movement whose time has come."

According to 350.org, the word “disruption” itself refers to both "the dangerous environmental tipping points after which the entire climate system could spiral out of control, as well as the need for a mass social movement to disrupt the status quo and business-as-usual approach which is inhibiting the bold actions necessary to protect the planet’s future."

Watch the trailer:

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