Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line

Directed by: Jan Haaken & Sam Praus Released: 2022 (educational) Year of Production: 2021 Running Time: 60 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies           In the course of screening Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance at schools, activist events, and festivals, the team began production on a second part, titled Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line. Also feature-length, the film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying these highly inflammable products through treaty lands. In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along th