Documentary Film Screening – “Newtok”

Please join us for June’s program night where we will be screening a feature documentary about the inhabitants of Newtok, Alaska, a village that needs to urgently relocate due to climate change. Built on a delta at the edge of the Bering Sea, the tiny Yup’ik village has been dealing with melting permafrost, river erosion and decaying infrastructure for decades. To keep their culture and community intact, the 360 Yup’ik residents must relocate their entire village to stable ground upriver while facing a federal government that has failed to take appropriate action to combat climate change. In moving their village, they will become some of America’s first climate change refugees. This is a film of a village seeking justice in the face of climate disaster.

Scientists warn that communities like Newtok are only the tip of a global wave of climate refugees we should expect to see as the climate crisis impacts more parts of the world.  To view the film’s trailer, click here.

Climate Justice is Social Justice

Globally, an estimated 1.4 billion people may have to relocate due to rising seas by 2060—but Newtok, Alaska, must move now.  Join us in calling on the Senate to fully fund the relocation of Newtok and help reunite a village displaced by climate change by emailing the Senate here.