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D'Salon
Beyond Progress
Oct 11, 2024, 6.30 PM @ Festival Center D'24
Event language: English
The climate crisis poses a global challenge. Where are the ethical boundaries of progress in a world marked by inequality? Together with filmmakers and experts, we will discuss how we can shape research to meet the needs of all people. Elias König’s book Klimagerechtigkeit offers a framework for this discussion. We will ask: How can we change our lifestyles and foster international solidarity to address the climate crisis? We will then screen Yintah, a powerful film that chronicles an Indigenous community’s fight against a destructive pipeline.
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Tickets
D'Salon
Oct 11
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
Program Info
Conversation
Guests
Freda Huson Howilhkat
Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson is a wing chief of the Unist’ot’en people of the Wet’suwet’en C’ilhts’ëkhyu clan. In 2011, she reoccupied her family’s ancestral territory in defiance of enormous fossil fuel development, and became a recognized leader in the international fight for Indigenous sovereignty. Leaving behind a comfortable life to live directly in the path of a proposed pipeline corridor through Wet’suwet’en yintah, Howilhkat lead the way for other familiesto reclaim their lands.
Jessica Valdez
Jessica Valdez is a project manager, cultural programmer, educator, and audiovisual producer who takes a feminist and anti-colonial perspective in her work on climate justice and reproductive rights issues. In Germany, she has been an organizer in the immigrant rights movement, especially in relation to access to education and freedom of movement.
Elias König
Elias König writes about social movements and climate justice and is involved in the Shell Must Fall alliance. His articles have appeared in The Ecologist, Truthout, New Bloom, analyse & kritik, der Freitag and Klimareporter.de, among others. Most recently, he was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, researching environmental philosophy from a Chinese perspective.
Moderation
Anna Ramskogler-Witt
Anna Ramskogler-Witt began her career in the film industry in 2006 at Vienna's Pool Film Distribution, where she set up the education programme. Since the beginning of her career, she has been convinced that documentaries can achieve a longer life and a larger audience through an impact approach. From 2019 - 2023 she served as Artistic Director of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Together with Vivian Schröder, she founded The Good Media Network in 2024 and serves as the Artistic Director.
Media in this event
Book
Klimagerechtigkeit
Climate Justice connects the climate crisis with social injustice. The book shows how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy have contributed to the climate crisis and how marginalized groups are disproportionately affected by its consequences, calling for a just fight against climate change.
Film
Yintah
In the Wet’suwet’en First Nation community, resistance to the construction of an underwater pipeline that jeopardizes the community’s livelihood has been growing. Activists Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham take us with them on their fight to reappropriate their homeland.
Tickets
D'Salon
Oct 11
6.30 PM
Festival Center D'24
