#powerlands

[aisling-saoirse]

Salt Marsh on the Hackensack, NJ - March 24th 2025

[rjzimmerman]

Trailer for the documentary, “Powerlands.” I can’t figure out if it’s available for streaming yet. I think it’s still in the festival circuit. Description:

In “Powerlands,” we journey across three continents to see different modes of power in play: coal and wind, corporate, and military — as well as the power of community resistance. Young Navajo filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso follows the trail of extractive industries exploiting her homeland, charting a trail of community displacement and environmental devastation in rural Colombia, the Philippines, Mexico, and Standing Rock. Throughout, she learns from Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same companies — lessons she brings home to the Navajo Nation.