Atomic Homefront: screening and discussion

Tuesday, March 20, 2018
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
(Pacific)

Menlo-Atherton Center for the Performing Arts, 555 Middlefield Rd, Atherton, CA 94027

Speaker: 
  • Marcos Orellana,
  • Lauren Davis,
  • Michael Kieschnick

The film screening of Atomic Homefront will be followed by a discussion with Human Rights Watch’s Marcos Orellana, Prof. Rod Ewing, and Lauren Davis (Director, Energy Program, 11th Hour Project). The conversation will be moderated by Michael Kieschnick (President, Green Advocacy Project). Atomic Homefront is a documentary about one community’s fight for environmental justice. 

Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home, Sister Helen), Atomic Homefront is a documentary about one community’s activism and the need for government accountability in the wake of decades of radioactive waste contamination in the northern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri.