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DESCRIPTION:Documentary Focuses on the Morality of Environmental Activism\n\nWhat 
 drives a person, someone who has worked within the system all his life, to 
 abandon the rules and break the law in pursuit of an ideal? The Reluctant 
 Radical follows the path of one such man – environmental activist Ken 
 Ward – through some eighteen months of direct action against the fossil 
 fuel industry, culminating in his arrest and trial.\n\nThe film will be 
 screened on Saturday, April 13, at 1:30 p.m., at Niles Discovery Church, 
 36600 Niles Blvd., Fremont. A discussion will follow the screening, led by 
 Toby Blomé. Blomé organizes periodic nonviolent resistance against drone 
 warfare at Beale and Creech Air Force bases. She is a member of CodePink. 
 Admission is free.\n\nDirected by Lindsey Grazel, the film shows a fairly 
 conventional man who grew increasingly disillusioned as emerging climate 
 science painted an ever-grimmer environmental future while environmental 
 organizations largely continued doing business as usual. Ward emerges as 
 someone not temperamentally inclined to go tilting at oil wells, but whose 
 moral convictions eventually lead him to devote his life – at whatever 
 cost – to fighting the role of the oil business in climate change. His 
 realism about his chances of ultimate success makes his commitment to his 
 cause all the more poignant.\n\nThe Reverend Jeffery Spencer, head pastor 
 at Niles Discovery Church, says, "Climate change is the moral issue of our 
 times." The Reluctant Radical puts a very human face on that moral 
 challenge. The film will be of interest to anyone pondering the ethics of 
 activism.\n\nThe Second Saturday Documentary Series is co-sponsored by 
 Niles Discovery Church and the San Jose Peace and Justice Center. Learn 
 more about the series at http://bit.ly/nilesssds.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/18/18822039.php
SUMMARY:Second Saturday Documentary Series - "The Reluctant Radical"
LOCATION:Niles Discovery Church \n36660 Niles Boulevard\nFremont, CA 94536
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/18/18822039.php
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