Month: April 2025

Tuesday, May 13th 7pm
First United Methodist Church, 120 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects.

Water For Life tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or large scale agriculture. Despite reassurances from companies and the authorities, they knew what lay ahead: contaminated water, environmental devastation, and the destruction of their communities.

It is a story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts. It is a story that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections. Above all, Water For Life illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that’s being seen around the world. It is a story that begins and ends with water.

This is a 2023 Documentary, 1h 29 min. Screening followed by community discussion.

Sponsored by: The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice Latin America Caucus; and the University of Michigan, Latin America and Caribbean Studies (LACS)

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Film Screening & Discussion

Tuesday, April 29th 7PM
Zion Lutheran Church | 1501 W Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor

Registration Required: https://givebutter.com/Borderland

The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere.

It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.

There is a war on immigrants being waged every day in this country, and not just along the southern border – we have become a Borderland, the border is everywhere and within every immigrant. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, detain and deport millions of immigrants. Conservative forces which seek to influence government policy have created a road map for the mass deportation of immigrants. This is a travesty and we need to shift public opinion to support a movement for policy reform that values the human rights and aspirations of immigrants, and welcomes the economic and cultural contributions they bring to our society. The protagonists of Borderland | The Line Within, all immigrants themselves, express these values while exposing the border industrial complex that provides the scaffolding for the war on immigrants.

This is a 2024 Documentary, 1h 50 min. Screening followed by community discussion.

Sponsored by: The Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice Latin America Caucus; and the University of Michigan, Latin America and Caribbean Studies (LACS)

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