Bob Zeigler
1102 A Creekwood Ct. SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 570-0848
January 6, 2016
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Sue Gunn suegunn@comcast.net (360) 918-8012. If unavailable: Rod Tharp
smcrae@earthlink.net (360) 951-1080
Subject: Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Confronting the Climate Crisis to host local
viewing of new documentary film on climate crisis and opportunities: “This Changes
Everything” by Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis followed by community discussion on needed local
climate actions.
Movie: This Changes Everything and Community Discussion
When: Sunday Jan. 31, 1-4 PM (Movie starts at 1:30PM)
Where: North Thurston High School Auditorium, North Thurston High School
600 Sleater-Kinney Rd. NE, Lacey, WA 98506
The event is open to the public. Donations accepted to cover room rental but not required.
Suggested donation: $5.
Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Confronting the Climate Crisis Group is presenting the
movie with assistance from The Meaningful Movies Project in Seattle followed by one hour
community forum with the goal to mobilize people and build a larger network to take action on
climate issues to get us to just and livable communities and planet. This movie is being shown
as an immediate follow-up to the COP21 International Climate Agreement. While the
International Paris Agreements was a start, we all need to make the changes to make it happen
and actually end the coal and oil era. In the interest of future generations, your involvement
whether little or great, is critically needed. Please connect with these co-sponsors that are now
doing the meaningful work on the ground locally. Cosponsors to date are:
Olympia FOR’s Confronting the Climate Crisis www.olympiafor.org/Climate_Crisis.html
The Meaningful Movies Project http://meaningfulmovies.org/
Backbone Campaign http://www.backbonecampaign.org/
Climate Solutions http://climatesolutions.org/
Interfaith Works Earth Stewards http://interfaith-works.org/
350Seattle http://350seattle.org/
Black Hills Audubon http://blackhills-audubon.org/
Great Old Broads for Wilderness http://www.greatoldbroads.org/directory-ofbroadbands/washington-polly-dyer-cascadia/ saschar44@gmail.com
Green Party of South Puget Sound http://www.greenparty-sps.net/
South Sound Sierra Club Group http://www.sierraclub.org/washington/south-sound-group
Thurston Climate Action Team http://oly-wa.us/thurstonclimateaction/
Master of Environmental Studies Association at The Evergreen State College
madeline.goodwin@gmail.com
League of Women Voters of Thurston County http://www.lwvthurston.org/
Movie Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870548/ or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpuSt_ST4_U
Movie Information: Filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes
Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by
Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, This Changes Everything, the film presents
seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin
to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air
with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most
controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to
transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
This movie is being made available to us by The Meaningful Movies Project. For more
information, press release, resources and more, go to: http://meaningfulmovies.org/
For information contact: Sue Gunn suegunn@comcast.net (360) 918-8012 and see
www.olympiafor.org/Climate_Crisis.html.
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