December Right to Harm Screenings
Tonight! December 5 – Grinnell
Sunday, December 8 – Sioux City
Monday, December 16 – Waterloo
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1. Right to Harm in Grinnell, Thursday, December 5 - TONIGHT!
The Iowa Famers Union hosts the next screening of Right to Harm in Cedar Rapids on Thursday evening, December 5 at 6:30 pm at the Drake Community Library, 930 Park Street, Grinnell.
A panel discussion follows with:
- Dr. Jim Merchant, retired professor at the University of Iowa College of Public Health and author of a landmark study on CAFOs and asthma in children
- Jean Otto, retired nurse, neighbor of 5000-head Prestage CAFO, and President of Poweshiek CARES
- Mike Carberry, Iowa Sierra Club board member and former Johnson County Supervisor
- Moderated by Diane Rosenberg, Executive Director of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc.; Iowa Consultant, Socially Responsible Agricultural Project; and Co-founder of IARA
Sunday, December 8 in Sioux City
The Northwest Iowa Group Sierra Club host a screening on Sunday December 8 at 2:00 pm at the Sioux City Public Museum, 607 4th Street, Sioux City. A panel discussion will follow the film with:
- Senator David Johnson (retired), 20-year state legislator and original sponsor of the factory farm moratorium bill
- Kim Alexander, sustainable livestock farmer and owner of Alexander Farm
- Susanne Skrym, co-chair of the South Dakota Sierra Club Living River Group
- Moderated by Mike Carberry, Iowa Sierra Club board member and former Johnson County Supervisor
Monday, December 16 in Waterloo
The Cedar Prairie Group Sierra Club brings Right to Harm to the Singlespeed Brewery at 325 Commercial Street in Waterloo for a screening that begins at 2:00 pm. Following the film, a panel discussion features:
- David Osterberg, founder and former director of the Iowa Policy Project; professor emeritus in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
- Chris Petersen, traditional hog farmer and consultant with the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project
- Mike Carberry, Iowa Sierra Club board member and former Johnson County Supervisor
- Moderated by Diane Rosenberg, Executive Director of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc.; Iowa Consultant, Socially Responsible Agricultural Project; and Co-founder of IARA
More information on these screenings here.
Watch the Trailer Here:
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Watch the Right to Harm trailer.
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Compelling National Exposé of Factory Farms Zeros In On Public Health and Social Impacts on People
Right to Harm documents the injurious public health, environmental, and quality of life impacts of factory farms in Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona and Delmarva. Filmmakers Matt Wechsler and Annie Speicher address the “human welfare” repercussions of living near a factory farm, revealing a social justice issue largely unknown to a broad swath of US consumers.
There are no scenes of animal abuse in Right to Harm.
Iowa's Fight Featured in Right to Harm
Each of Iowa’s 13,000 factory farms are built in communities of neighbors who have few protections and little ability to have a meaningful say in a livestock confinement’s location.
The Iowa segment examines the plight of an Iowa County resident who was confronted with two 1200-head CAFOs built across from his family’s 145-year old farm shortly after he retired there. It also features the efforts of many Iowans coming together to protect their communities.
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, January 23, 2020 - Stop Factory Farms Lobby Day, Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines. More info to come!
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