Coming Soon – Fall 2010…

    Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

    Date/Time:  Saturday, September 25, 2010 – 2:30 p.m.
    Location:  Paul Robeson Student Center, Rutgers, the State University, Newark Campus
    Admission Cost:  Free and open to the public (Donations to the Green Belt Movement gladly accepted)
    Wangari Muta Maathai is a Kenyan environmental and political activist. Educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica College and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women’s rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel  Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.”  Dr. Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources between January 2003 and November 2005.  Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells her story.  Panel discussion to follow screening.

Schedule

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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

The award-winning documentary ‘Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai’ by Lisa Merton & Alan Dater tells the inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement and its founder. “It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change. And we cannot be intimidated. So we must [...]