The San Jose Peace & Justice Center presents AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock

Friday, December 8, 7pm
San Jose Peace and Justice Center, San Jose, California
FREE and open to the public

The San Jose Peace and Justice Center is showing AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock on Friday, December 8 at 7pm. This film is a record of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River. This event is sponsored by the Economic Justice Film Series and the SCC Green Party.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.

Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline's demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.

More Info: http://www.sanjosepeace.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20171031141909208