CCAC Announces Free Film Screenings during Earth Month
April 4 & 25 at
Alfred University
April 15 & 17 at
Alfred State College
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Angelica, NY – Concerned Citizens of Allegany County (CCAC)
is proud to co-sponsor several documentary film screenings during the month of
April, which is recognized internationally as Earth Month. Earth Day takes place globally on April
22nd. Visit earthday.org to learn more.
First up is the new documentary film Denying Access: NoDAPL
to NoNAPL to be shown at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 2019 as part of a
weekly Critical Cinema Film Series, a student-led film series curated by senior
Emma Hilderbrant. The screening takes place in Holmes Auditorium, in Harder
Hall at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A discussion
with the filmmaker will follow.
Denying Access: NoDAPL to NoNAPL (2019, 95 min) is a
gripping and emotionally charged documentary chronicling the Water Protectors
at Standing Rock and from the Seneca Territory working to oppose the Dakota
Access pipeline (DAPL) and Northern Access Pipeline (NAPL).
This Indigenous-led movement has brought together people
from around the world in an unprecedented call for the recognition of
Indigenous rights and an end to an environmentally destructive fossil fuel
industry. Senecas went in large numbers to "stand with Standing Rock”
against the Dakota Access pipeline and came home to western New York find a
fracked gas pipeline being planned just upstream from their territories.
The Northern Access Pipeline is a proposed 97-mile
high-pressure pipeline that would cross 180 streams, 270 wetlands and 7 ponds
in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Erie counties, carrying highly-pressurized fracked
gas from the drilling fields in Pennsylvania to Buffalo, NY and then into
Canada for export to other nations.
Dr. Jason Corwin, Executive Director of the Seneca Media and
Communications Center located on the Seneca Nation of Indians in Salamanca, NY
is one of the filmmakers of Denying Access: NoDAPL to NoNAPL. Dr. Corwin will take audience questions after
the screening. You can learn more about
the film, its makers and the issues surrounding water protection, and view the
film’s trailer by visiting
www.denyingaccess.com.
CCACs own documentary, “My Name is Allegany County” will be
screened Monday, April 15 and Wednesday, April 17 as part of the Soils class
(Ag and Vet Tech dept.) taught by Lecturer Jessica Hutchison. These screenings
are free and open to the public and begin at 2:00 p.m. in Room 102, Agriculture
Building on the Alfred State College campus, 10 Upper College Drive, Alfred,
NY. CCAC members who participated in the
'Bump The Dump' movement are expected to attend.
This year marks the 29th anniversary of the successful
grassroots battle to 'Bump The Dump' in Allegany County, NY. Faced with the prospect of becoming host to a
large scale low-level radioactive waste dump, people mobilized quickly. When
5,000 people attended the first public meeting, NYs Siting Commission got a
taste for the fierce, unyielding opposition they were about to endure. In the
era before Internet and mobile phones, activists relied on land-lines and CB
radios to communicate. Thankfully, video cameras and the regional media
captured archival footage of this uplifting struggle, which has been preserved
as an important historical record in this documentary film.
A third screening of “My Name is Allegany County” will take
place on Thursday, April 25th, also at Holmes Auditorium in Harder Hall at
Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Once again, the film is hosted by Critical
Cinema. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. CCAC members who participated in the 'Bump The
Dump' movement are expected to attend.
Concerned Citizens of Allegany County, Inc., is a 501c3
not-for-profit corporation that continues to fight against pollution, focusing
primarily on ending the expansion of infrastructure related to fracking, and
halting the disposal of hazardous and radioactive gas field wastes in Allegany
and Steuben county landfills. We meet
monthly in Angelica and welcome interested parties to join the effort to raise
awareness and protect our clean water, soil, and air. Tax-deductible
contributions can be mailed to: CCAC PO
Box 425, Angelica, NY 14709. Learn more at ccallegany.org or follow us on
Facebook. Email
contactusccac@gmail.com or call/text
585-466-4474.
