Sun 11/25 @ 1:30PM
While the media has decided that environmental issues are too boring to be covered (unlike, say, Hillary Clinton’s email server), the impact of treating the environment with disdain and an eye only for profit affects billions of lives, especially those of poorer people.
The 2014 spill of poisonous sulfate from a copper mine into a river in the Rio Sonora region was the worst environmental disaster in Mexican history, probably caused by overworked scabs brought in during a miner’s strike. Cleveland native Timothy Kotowski spent two years in the region, talking to local citizens, investigators and others impacted by the disaster and their loss of safe water for drinking and agriculture, while the government, influenced by the powerful mining company, denied there was a crisis.
His work ended up as the new documentary Spill, which he says is a warning for the U.S., as environmental agencies are increasingly being run by representatives from the very industries they’re supposed to oversee. To get this important information out, Spill will have a free screening at the Cleveland Museum of Art, sponsored by Ben and Julia Kotowski, whom we assume are the filmmaker’s parents.