BRATTLEBORO — “We don't live in a democracy, ” says Thomas Linzey of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. “And if you live in a corporate state the only thing left is to dismantle it and build something new."
That is the guiding theme behind the film, We the People 2.0, which will be screened by the Climate Change Café on Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m., at Brooks Memorial Library in Bratteboro, according to a news release.
As always, the event is free, and light refreshments will be available.
This film is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the U.S., and how people are taking it back after being marginalized, forgotten, and left to fend for themselves against large corporations who for decades have engaged in toxic dumping, mining, drilling, and now fracking in their communities.
As one community activist states in the film, “We thought we had an oil and gas problem, we thought we had a fracking problem. We realized that, no, what we have is a democracy problem.”
According to the release, We the People 2.0 depicts the building of a Second American Revolution: a revolution to elevate the rights of people, communities, and nature above corporate “rights” and the preemptive authority of state and federal government; “a revolution to help America manifest a true democracy, where 'we the people' are the key decision-makers for our own communities.”