Sallie's Ashes - FREE film screening @ Downtown Huntsville Library
Details
CCL Huntsville chapter is proud to partner with the League of Women Voters Alabama / Tennessee Valley to present a FREE SCREENING of
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Sallie's Ashes
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a documentary about 80-year-old Alabama grandmother Sallie Smith, facing terminal lung cancer, who rallies fellow grandmas to fight to remove a toxic coal ash pit.
Please register at the Eventbrite link :
http://bit.ly/SalliesAshesHSV
because seating is limited!
About the film:
Sallie Smith doesn’t know how to retire.
The 80-year old from Alabama admits "when I see something that's a problem, it tends to call my name... and once it's done that, I need to see it through."
The problem now is threatening her beloved Mobile Bay. Alabama Power's "Plant Barry" -- Southern Alabama's largest power plant -- has been depositing its waste ash into an unlined pit next to the plant for decades. It's a ticking time bomb; if the levees were to be breached, 21 million tons of toxic ash would be released into the Mobile River and Bay.
Sallie recruits fellow retirees Diane Thomas and Savan Wilson to her cause, and together they set off on a late-life crusade to try and force the plant -- and the EPA -- to move the ash to safer ground.
But Sallie is racing against more than one clock. The cancer she once beat has returned and metastasized. With only months to live, can she and her friends pull off one final fight for their community, the Bay, and for the generations to come?
Event Details:
Location: Downtown Huntsville Library Auditorium
Date and time: Thursday, March 12, 5:30-7:30pm
Agenda
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Pre-screening Social networking
06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
Screening of Sallies Ashes documentary
06:45 PM - 07:30 PM
Post documentary Conversation with Savan Wilson and Diane Thomas
Help us spread the word so that we can build a sold out audience for environmental awareness.
More buzz, but not linked directly to our event, so repost these + share the link to register: http://bit.ly/SalliesAshesHSV
From the filmmakers:
- https://www.instagram.com/salliesashesfilm/
- https://www.facebook.com/salliesashes
- https://www.salliesashes.com/
- from the actual movement itself
https://www.movetheash.com/about-sallies-ashes - screenings around Alabama (but still share our registration link!)
https://www.movetheash.com/film-screenings
Event description:
FREE FILM SCREENING IN HUNTSVILLE
The award-winning short documentary Sallie's Ashes -- an Oscar qualifying film about an Alabama group's fight to protect Mobile Bay from toxic coal ash. Now showing at film festivals across the US. If 21 million tons of cancer-causing coal ash sludge were spilled into the Tensaw Delta, Mobile Bay would be polluted forever.
Two of the activists featured in this film will be joining us to discuss threats posed by Coal Ash to our waterways.
This is a great networking opportunity for civic, voting, and environmental protection groups!
See you there!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/huntsville-screening-of-sallies-ashes-with-discussion-afterwards-tickets-1981975903280?aff=flyer
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