Saturday, November 17, 2-4:30pm, Upper Arlington Public Library, 2800 Tremont Rd.

“Invisible Hand” is the world’s first documentary film about the creation of ‘Rights of Nature’ from the exploitation of capitalism, the defining battle of our times between democracy and corporations.

In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist’ in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and are now locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home, the water they drink, and enforce the local laws they enacted that gave legal Rights to Nature.

As Columbus, Ohio, residents are advancing Rights of Nature and Community Rights to protect their city and watershed from fracking harms, they are hosting this prescreening. Tish O’Dell, the Ohio organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund [CELDF], will participate in a question-and-answer period following this film.

Sponsored by Columbus Community Bill of Rights.