Water Warriors

Austrian premiere!

CA, 2017, 22 min, English OV
Directed by: Michael Premo

Thursday
November 30th
21:30


Q&A
with protagonist Rachel Falcone (via Videostream)


CO-PRESENTED BY
System Change, not Climate Change!


Website


“Every day, people were waking up saying: How am I gonna fight today?”

In 2013, Texas-based SWN Resources arrived in New Brunswick, Canada to explore for gas. The region is known for its forestry, farming and fishing industries, which are both commercial and small-scale subsistence operations that rural communities depend on. In response, a multicultural group of unlikely warriors – including members of the Mi’kmaq Elsipogtog First Nation, French-speaking Acadians and white English-speaking families – set up a series of road blockades, preventing exploration. After months of resistance, their efforts not only halted drilling; they elected a new government and won an indefinite moratorium on fracking in the province. That´s how you fight! That´s how you win!