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    © 2017. Film by TREEMEDIA.COM

    ABOUT US

    TREE MEDIA

     

    Tree Media is a production company with a mission to use stories and media to encourage an open society based on wisdom and informed, positive action.   Tree has been working for more than 18 years on projects that examine the environment, consciousness, human development and global transformation. The operating assumption of Tree Media's production slate is that the ecosystem of the mind needs cultivation and care.  The mediasphere, awash with information, often assaults us with violent images, random facts and meaningless stories that have no depth of purpose.  Tree believes that taking time to create stories that connect to deeper truths will help us understand and navigate our time.  

     

    CELDF

     

    CELDF is spearheading a movement to establish rights for people, communities, and nature over the systems that control them.  We are not a typical environmental organization. We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws to protect rights – including worker, environmental, and democratic rights, and rights of nature. CELDF provides free and low cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education, to communities, states, and countries facing injustice. We help them to assert their rights to fight the harms they face.

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    Crowd Funding Heroes

    Casey Coates Danson

    Campbell Mclaren

    Gregor Nusser

    Susan Selbin

    Bonnie Winona 

    Lynn  Thore

    Sebastian Copeland

    John  Olivas

    Dana Butler

    Keitha Kinne

    Paul LeFort

    Lindsey Kayman Kotliar

    Bill Benenson

    Barbara Bosson

     

    Cathy O'Neill

    Urs Schnell

    Shannon Factor

    Lisa  Mead

    Rand McNeely Chatterjee

    Audrey Moore/Precious Dirt

    Rio Davidson

    Janet E. Boys

    Cynthia Howard

    Coleman Watts

    Debra Weistar

    Susan K Willis

    Michael Lane

    Larisa Neaga

     

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    Directed by Leila Conners                     Narrated by Walton Goggins​                Produced by Mathew Schmid

    Press & Endorsements

     

    We the People is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States.  The film utilizes both original footage as well as found footage to describe a profound change in thinking at the grassroots level. The story unfolds through the eyes of rural people who have faced decades of toxic dumping, drilling and mining in their communities.  We learn with them that the reason why, in spite of all their efforts, they “get what they don’t want, again and again,” is because they are, by law, truly powerless in spite of propaganda that says they live in the “best democracy in the world.”   These people come to understand that the reason they can’t stop the destruction is that the US has become an oligarchy, run by the corporate few who ignore the rights and will of the people.  These people are frontally challenging our corporate state; thereby saving nature and themselves. Thomas Linzey, a nonprofit attorney’s inspiring words shows how, we, the people, can turn this around and lay claim to our democracy. This movement is building as you read this, not just in this country but around the world; our film shows how and where it all began. 

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