Free Screening: "Necessity"

The San Francisco Public Library launches July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a screening of the two-part documentary Necessity, a film that reveals how Indigenous leaders and Native and non-Native activists are responding to the world’s growing climate emergency. This screening is the first of many film programs in the Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series, a series that the Library hopes will inspire people to take action for a safer, greener and more sustainable future.
“As Indigenous leaders and Native and non-Native activists respond to the growing climate emergency and are charged with trespassing, legal strategies in the climate movement increasingly take center stage. From the Mississippi Headwaters, wild rice fields and Great Lakes in Part I to the rivers and mountains of the Columbia River Gorge in Part II, awe-inspiring terrains become sites of coordinated resistance to the corporate promotion of oil. New alliances form around shared commitments to save the planet.”—Program notes

Directors: Jan Haaken, Samantha Praus
NR, 120 mins., 2020. Closed captions (CC) in English.
More info about the film: https://sfpl.org/events/2025/07/03/film-necessity
More info about Everybody’s Climate 2025 program series: sfpl.org/everybodysclimate

11:45 Meet in SFPL's Koret Auditorium (lower level) at 100 Larkin St.
12:00 The film starts at 12 p.m.
2:30 After the film we will stay for a brief post-screening conversation.
2:45 We will meet across the street at Gyro King (25 Grove St.) for more conversation.