Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing a free film screening at Murphysboro's Liberty Theater, July 27 7 PM
Focusing on the Shawnee Forest, the film recalls past conflicts and environmental victories and underscores the need for climate change solutions.
A free screening of the documentary film Shawnee Showdown- Keep the Forest Standing, by SIUC School of Arts and Media professor Cade Bursell, will be held 7 PM Wednesday, July 27 at the Liberty Theater, 1333 Walnut St, Murphysboro, IL.
Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Screened at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale and the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Shawnee Showdown retraces the battle over commercial logging within the Shawnee National Forest for more than three decades and raises concerns over climate change and present public land use.
Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with environmental activists who participated in the protests and who remain active to this day. Updates on current & proposed logging projects occurring on the northern, southern, and western sides of Kinkaid Lake, as well as those proposed for Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, and Pope counties.
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, a small, dedicated group of activists fought on the ground & in the courts to stop clear-cutting in Southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest. They won the support of their community and the struggle in the court. Logging stopped in the Shawnee for seventeen years.
This is their story.
Using archival photos and video footage as well as contemporary interviews with the activists, Bursell has made a film that captures the passion and pain of those who stood up and fought against logging, oil and gas drilling and illegal ATV use in the Shawnee.
Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing portrays the struggle to protect the forest through interviews, photographs, and news footage. The film examines the ways the past struggle can serve to inform the public and activists today in responding to current Forest Service management projects ongoing in the Shawnee Forest.
These activists are once again asking tough questions about public land use. Should our public land be degraded to generate commercial profit for the few? With the effects of climate change intensifying and the knowledge that mature forests sequester more carbon, why not keep the Shawnee National Forest and other Forest Service lands standing as regional carbon sinks? How can the forest remain a healthy habitat for all species? How do we keep the forest standing?
The screening is sponsored by Shawnee Forest Defense. For more information or to view the film trailer visit https://ift.tt/0ZXn4Mv or email shawneeforestdefense@gmail.com.
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