CMU's Center for Arts & Society presents "Denying Access"

7:00 PM, November 8th 
Room A2, College of Fine Arts Basement

Denying Access: NoDAPL to NoNAPL is a gripping 90 minute documentary chronicling the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Seneca Territory working to oppose the Dakota Access and Northern Access Pipelines. This Indigenous-led movement brought together people from around the world in an unprecedented call for the recognition of Indigenous rights and an end to a destructive fossil fuel industry. Senecas went in large numbers to "stand with Standing Rock” against DAPL and came home to find another pipeline, NAPL, being planned just upstream from their territories. A Zoom Q&A with the director will follow the 90-min documentary.

Jason Corwin (Seneca, Deer Clan) is the Executive Director of the Seneca Media and Communications Center. He has been a lifelong photographer, videographer, and independent media producer, working especially on Indigenous rights and environmental issues. Corwin has a PhD in Natural Resources from Cornell University and has done extensive work on the intersection of digital storytelling, Indigenous ways of knowing, and environmental education.