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Date
March 13, 2012
- Time 7 p.m.
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price All Tickets $10
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Wangari Maathai
Photograph courtesy Green Belt MovementThe late environmental, social, and political activist Wangari Maathai earned a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement. She founded this Kenyan organization in 1977 to encourage the planting of trees to protect the soil and provide women with wood for cooking and building. Join documentary filmmakers Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, environmentalist and human rights activist Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, and Green Belt’s U.S. director Stephen Mills for a special tribute to an environmental hero of our time. The evening will feature a screening of Merton and Dater’s film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. A reception will follow this event.
Co-presented with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital.
See a trailer for Lisa Merton and Alan Dater’s film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai:
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