Rebel for Life Screening
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About this Event
About Rebel for Life*
A powerful story about our ultimate challenge: to protect life on earth
Rebel for Life is a truly engaging story about a young hospital doctor who has turned into a radical climate activist. Dr. Vishal Chauhan, son of Indian immigrants, was working as a hospital doctor in the UK. Understanding that the Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis he makes a big sacrifice: he gives up his well-paid job as a doctor and his comfortable life to join the climate movement Extinction Rebellion. Together with his new friends he besieges the centre of London and a coal mine in the north of England. Radical system change is needed, Vishal says, and there is no time to lose: “We’ve got only one generation left to survive on this Earth.” Community is key in everything the movement proposes. But then COVID-19 hits the world … Will there be a future for all of us on Earth?
Non-violent civil disobedience is at the heart of Extinction Rebellion’s strategy to fight for change. Some Extinction Rebellion activists, including Vishal, have been trained in mindfulness and peaceful activism in Plum Village, France.
Recorded in London and Durham County, UK.
Rebel for Life is co-produced by Dutch broadcasting organisation KRO-NCRV. The film is English spoken. Also available with English subtitles. Spanish, French, German and Dutch film versions are in production.
Dear Earth is a second film produced on this same topic. Dear Earth has a different narrative and will be released internationally early 2021.
*Text from https://evermind.media/rebel-for-life/
About the Earth Holder Community Ireland
Earth Holder Community Ireland is a Mindfulness Ireland/Plum Village community of mindful practice. The Earth Holder Community aims to actualise Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on Engaged Buddhism, which seek to address social, racial and climate justice, in a non-partisan and non-conflictual manner. We warmly invite you to this online movie afternoon. We will gather via Zoom at 3:30pm and settle in together to watch the film. Following this, you are invited to grab a cup of tea and stay for a chat. All are welcome. If you have any questions, you can contact us on earthholdercommunityireland@gmail.com
About Evermind Media*
Evermind Media is a collaboration between Wouter Verhoeven and the Plum Village community. Our aspiration is to translate the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh into film and share them online.
We make mindful films that bring you home. Many of us in the world of today are running and restless. We run in our minds, creating a culture of hurry and pressure. Our hearts do not know peace. It is time to stop running and to come back home to ourselves, to come home in every step and in every breath, or as Thich Nhat Hanh says:
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society will benefit from our peace.”
*Text from https://evermind.media/about/
http://www.mindfulnessireland.org/earth-holder-community-ireland/
