‘Invisible Hand’ showing set
By KRISTIE LINDEN
klinden@yourmvi.com
A documentary about the “community rights” movement will be screened in Elizabeth at 7 p.m. Friday at the Grand Theater. There will be people on hand to answer questions about establishing a home rule government in Elizabeth.
Director Joshua Pribanic of Public Herald Studios, Judy Wanchisn of East Run Hellbenders Society, Grant Township Supervisor Stacy Long, and Chad Nicholson of the Community Environmental Rights Legal Defense Fund will attend the show to answer questions.
The documentary, “INVISIBLE HAND,” is the latest from Pribanic and Melissa Troutman, award-winning directors who’ve followed the Pennsylvania community of Grant Township on a journey to protect itself against an oil and gas waste facility that allegedly threatens their water supplies. The community passed a home rule charter and granted rights of nature to its environment with help from the defense fund. The community has since been sued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the oil and gas industry.
“This isn’t a game. We’re being threatened by a corporation with a history of permit violations, and that corporation wants to dump toxic frack wastewater into our township,” Long said during an interview for the film.
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