I’d like to hip you to a conference that starts tonight and runs through Saturday. It’s called the “2017 Root and Branch Revue.” It’s hosted by the environmental group Downwinders at Risk. Here’s what’s on tap:
TONIGHT: A free public forum at the Angelika on civil disobedience. It’s billed as “the most sophisticated public discussions about getting arrested as a political tactic in DFW history.” After a screening of Above All Else, about the East Texas Keystone Pipeline blockade, some fairly famous Dallas activists will take the stage, including Peter Johnson (did the Selma march in ’65, tried to stop I-45 from tearing up South Dallas in 1970), and Mavis Belisle (organized the largest act of civil disobedience in Texas history at the Comanche Peak nuclear plant).
THURSDAY: Do we have a lead problem as big as Flint’s? We recently learned that some DISD campuses have elevated levels of copper and lead in their drinking water. And there are parts of South Dallas where recent blood tests in children found lead levels six times higher than the national average. Randy Lee Loftis, former environmental reporter for the DMN, will moderate a panel that includes the women who broke the story about Flint’s lead contamination.
SATURDAY: A whole bunch of workshops on everything from asthma to drinking water quality to how to fight environmental permits in Texas. This one will cost you $35 for the day, but you get lunch.
Get all the times and locations and more details here.
