NEWS AND REVIEWS

Oregon Arts Watch Land and Water: By Necessity 

A gathering of Native American activists and allies and an Oregon-produced film join the battle against pipelines and other climate threats

Zinn Education Project Teaching Climate Disobedience: Using the Film Necessity in the Classroom

A lesson about multiple cohorts of climate activists: Indigenous leaders in the Climate Justice Movement, valve turners using civil disobedience to stop the flow of oil, and the legal team that uses the “necessity defense” in the courts.

University College Cork, Ireland Department of Sociology and Criminology News

Prof. Jan Haaken presented an advance screening of her latest film, Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance. It was shown on Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 6pm in the lecture theatre at St. John’s Central College, Cork.

Young Geographer Magazine Contested Boundaries: People, Law, and Oil Pipelines

An article about the film from Co-Director Samantha Praus and Assistant Producer Jasmine Eppelheimer. 

Patch Arts & Entertainment Film Screening for #StopLine3

Extinction Rebellion NYC hosts an outdoor screening of the documentary Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance

VIEWER COMMENTS

Necessity: Oil, Water and Climate Resistance is a uniquely compelling documentary.  My high school students were fascinated to learn of the examples of 21st-century civil disobedience so carefully depicted in this film.  Students are used to seeing civil disobedience as it is too often portrayed in textbooks — the sepia-toned photos of the Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides that appear to be relics of the past and not applicable to their own time. This film belongs in our classrooms if we believe students deserve a curriculum that is relevant, urgent, and committed to a just future.

--Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, High School Teacher and Editor, Rethinking Schools