FREE SCREENING: Bidder 70

Bidder 70

Environmental Activist or Eco-Terrorist?! You Decide.


This is
the story of college student, Tim DeChristopher, who decided to disrupt
a highly disputed Utah BLM Oil and Gas lease auction, effectively
safeguarding thousands of acres of pristine Utah land slated for oil and
gas leases. Tim entered the auction hall, registered as bidder #70, and
outbid industry giants on land parcels winning 22,000 acres of land
worth $1.7 million before the auction was halted. For this action, Tim
was incarcerated for 21 months.

Bidder 70 centers
on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience
which would redefine patriotism in our time and ignite a spirit of civil
disobedience in the name of climate justice. Follow Tim, Bidder 70,
from college student to incarcerated felon. Redefine justice for
yourself. Choose your side. Take action http://www.bidder70film.com

Speaker: Will Potter is
an award-winning independent journalist based in Washington, D.C., who
focuses on "eco-terrorism," the animal rights and environmental
movements, and civil liberties post-9/11. His reporting and commentary
have appeared in The Washington Post, NPR, Vice, Democracy Now!, and
Rolling Stone.

Will's book, Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, awarded a Kirkus Star for "remarkable merit",
documents
the scare tactics used by the government, often in concert with large
corporations, against even patently non-violent activist groups, which
they dub "animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists."

Autographed copies of Will's book will be available - visit http://vimeo.co/willpotter/green-is-the-new-red-trailer
Check out Will's blog at http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog



Celebrate with Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group, Green Vegan Networking and Prince George's County Peace and Justice Coalition as Reel and Meal Turns Six!!!

Sponsor: Green Vegan Networking
Contact: Cam MacQueen at worldisvegan@aol.com



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