Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Free screening of film on environmental and social costs of oil drilling Thursday night in Whittier

The documentary Split Estate, will be screened at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Whittier.

The film "maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health."

A preview is available on YouTube.

The free screening will be followed by a discussion of oil drilling in Montebello and Whittier, facilitated by the Sierra Club's Save the Montebello Hills Task Force.

The task force and the Whittier Area Peace and Justice Coalition are co-sponsoring the event.

St. Matthias is at 7056 Washington Ave. in Whittier.

For more information, please call (562) 587-6270 or (562) 233-8579.

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