"Living Downsteam" - the movie

SUBHEAD: Dinner and a film about chemicals in our environment on Friday 1/27 at 6:30pm at Children of the Land.  

By Juan Wilson on 15 January 2012 for Island Breath - 
  (http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2012/01/living-downsteam-movie.html)


 Image above: Detail of photo of Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. From (http://www.livingdownstream.com/for-media).  

WHAT: Free dinner and showing of documentary, "Living Downstream". Note this film was shown on 11 August 2011 on Kauai.  

WHERE: The Children of the Land – Kauai Village Shopping Center Kapaa next to Papaya's 4-831 Kuhio Hwy #332, Kapaa  

WHEN: Friday, January 27th, 2011, Dinner at 6:30pm Film & Discussion 7:00-9:30pm  

SPONSOR: GMO Free Kauai (www,hawaiiSEED.org) Kauai Bee Keepers Association (www.kauaibuzz.blogspot.com)

With generous support of the Ceres Trust Dinner from Koloa Fish Market For info call 651-9603. DETAILS: Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic documentary film. This film is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water.

Ecologist Sandra Steingraber's personnel journey and scientific exploration to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links to pesticides. Kauai is ground zero for testing of genetically engineered experiments. Chemicals such as Round-Up, 2-4-D Atrazine, Clorithiadin are used on Kauai and are affecting our communities, school children, water soil, and honey bees. Our neighbors are feeling the health effects of intensive chemical spraying.

This film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. After a routine cancer screening, Sandra receives some worrying results and is thrust into a period of medical uncertainty. Thus, we begin two journeys with Sandra: her private struggles with cancer and her public quest to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention.

But Sandra is not the only one who is on a journey—the chemicals against which she is fighting are also on the move. We follow these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America. We see how these chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer.

Several experts in the fields of toxicology and cancer research make important cameo appearances in the film, highlighting their own findings on two pervasive chemicals: atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, and the industrial compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Their work further illuminates the significant connection between a healthy environment and human health.
At once Sandra’s personal journey and her scientific exploration, Living Downstream is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land, and water.

From Living Downstream (http://www.livingdownstream.com)
 
Video above: Trailer for "Living Downstream". From (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UsmBqYpwo).
 
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