Community Rights Lane County, Mountain Rose Herbs, the UO Climate Justice League, Beyond Toxics, 350 EUG, Oregon Community Rights Network, Freedom from Aerial Herbicides Alliance, and Our Community Our Rights present the film “Invisible Hand.”

In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its “right to exist” in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and are now locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home, the water they drink, and enforce the local laws they enacted that gave legal Rights to Nature.

Half a continent away in Standing Rock, North Dakota, the same industry threatening Grant Township is using militarized force against indigenous tribes and allies fighting to protect Mother Earth. The two, Grant Township and Standing Rock, are joined in an international fight to protect more than just water. They fight for their community, democracy, and for Nature as a living entity unto itself.

Produced by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, “Invisible Hand” takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where “Rights of Nature” become “capitalism’s one true opponent.”

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