Sunday, April 25, 2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join the Ohio Community Rights Network and Simply Living for a four-part film series focusing on issues related to democracy. Each film showing will be followed by a post-film discussion and an open question-and-answer period.

We’ll send a link and password for the film by Saturday, April 24, which will be active for a 24-hour period, to view the film. Please watch the film before the question-and-answer period on Sunday, April 25 at 2pm.

Register for free with Zoom to receive a Zoom link for the question-and-answer period that will be unique to you — so please don’t share it.

If you haven’t had the chance yet, please consider making a donation of $5 or more at paypal.com/paypalme/ohiocrn.

All proceeds will be shared equally with Ohio Community Rights Network and Simply Living.

Invisible Hand

Produced by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, “Invisible Hand” takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where “Rights of Nature” becomes “capitalism’s one true opponent.”

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 was sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and are now locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home through civil disobedience. The water they drink and the Rights to Nature laws they’ve passed are all on the line in this exclusive story.

In Toledo, Ohio, an earth-shattering vote was passed to enact the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR), granting personhood to international waters.

Half a continent away, in Standing Rock, North Dakota, the same industry threatening Grant Township is using militarized force against indigenous tribes and allies fighting to protect Mother Earth.

Activists leaving Standing Rock are rejoined on the Pennsylvania and New York border where the Seneca Nation of Indians aligns with communities in the Triple Divide to stop radioactive fracking waste from entering Ohi:yo’ waters. Terry Pegula, the owner of Buffalo Bills and Sabres, threatens to sue “Invisible Hand” filmmakers and whoever continues to speak out about his oil and gas company and their efforts.

The four, Grant Township, Lake Erie Bill of Rights, Defend Oh:yo,’ and Standing Rock, are joined in an international fight to protect more than just water. They fight for their community, democracy, and for Nature as a living entity unto itself.

In the end, “Who will speak for Nature?”

RSVP for this event by using this link.

In conjunction with “Democracy Film Series,” hosted by Ohio Community Rights Network and Simply Living.