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Why can’t the world just be ruled by cabals of mighty librarian queens? Organizing to create policies, looking out for the marginalized, fighting censorship, advocating for the education and literacy of all – we’d be led into a golden age of knowledge and peace.

Or at least that’s the fantasy I conjured after attending my very first American Library Association annual conference this past weekend in New Orleans.

Okay, maybe it’s just the exceptional people who I hung out with – the librarians driving the growing acceptance of graphic novel collections around the world. Whip smart and passionate about their advocacy, I soon came to realize the thing that was most powerful about this group: not only do they love reading, they love it when YOU read, too, and they do everything they can to help more people enjoy reading.

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This was undoubtedly a banner year for the graphic novel pavilion at ALA. Perhaps it was the lure of the exotic New Orleans setting – supposedly attendance geos up whenever the ALAAC is held in the Crescent City. But maybe it was destiny. Not only was it my own first ALA (something that shocked everyone I told) but the number of publishers attending for the first time or returning after a long absence was much remarked upon. Titan, Rebellion, Humanoids, the French Comics Association, Europe Comics, Zenescope and several other were set up for the first time. Fantagraphics and Boom were returning after long absences. And even DC, long represented by distributor Random House, had finally returned with a booth promoting their Ink, Zoom and Black Label lines.

The only publisher missing in action? Marvel Comics, a fact often noted that drew some tough talk from librarians. But that will be returned to.

It wasn’t just publishers – the people who were attending for the first time, besides me, Berger Books; Karen Berger, Black Crown’s Shelly Bond, Lion Forge’s Carol Burrell, Aftershocks Steve Rotterdam, Dynamite’s Alan Payne and many, many others were experiencing the library market first hand for the first time, joining such veterans as our own Torsten Adair, and Random House Graphics’ Gina Gagliano.

They all came together in NoLA’s voodoo tinged fever swamp perhaps to present an alternative to the twitter culture wars and comics shop vs Wal-Mart narrative that was keeping everyone else busy. And it was also the cusp of a milestone obscure outside the library world but momentous inside it; the establishment of a Graphic Novel Round Table. In the hierarchy of the ALA this classification allows for membership dues, budgets and greater resources for organizing projects. The drive was spearheaded by Tina Coleman, who’s been organizing the graphic novel pavilion and the artist alley at ALA for several years, with a bold squadron of graphic novel library knights behind her as shown in this photo.

The effects of this new roundtable may not be seen directly outside the library world, but we’ll feel its influence in future endeavors. It also marks a momentous trek from the base camp that began back in 2002, when comics first invaded the ALA with a presentation by Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran, Art Spiegelman and Jeff Smith, four swashbuckling creators whose talents and charisma could not help but win over the library world.

Anyhoo, I know I’m waxing rhapsodical over a conference. Maybe it’s just the effects of dehydration and overheating as I wandered the 97-degree swamp of Chartres St – maybe it’s destiny.

So let’s go back! I arrived in New Orleans back on Thursday. Looking around the gate at Newark airport, most of my fellow passengers were women reading books. It was a very ALA bound crowd.

The event kicked off with a reception for the French Comics Association at the French Consulate in New Orleans. That was as swell as you might imagine, a huge, gracious mansion opened for the evening to the library cabal plus a few publishers and the French comics contingent of Barroux (Alpha), Cati Baur (Four Sisters), Aurélie Neyret (Cici’s Journal), Benjamin Reiss (Super Tokyoland), Julie Rocheleau (About Betty’s Boob), Eve Tharlet (The Wild Cat: Mr. Badger & Mrs. Fox) as well as French BD industry folks.

Flore Piacentino of the French Publishers Association gave a little talk and mentioned the influence of manga, bande desinee and “comics” coming together. I’ve often heard the three great branches of world graphic literature around the world categorized like this, and maybe it’s time for us in the US to accept the “comics” name with pride for our bombastic yet fantastic strain of storytelling. Standing in the hot backyard of the manse, with its mix of Haunted Mansion moldings and mid-century furniture, it was fun to hear of the panels and meetings to come.

After the reception, I grabbed some dinner with Karen Berger, Eva Volin and Robyn Brenner, Berger Books and the library world exchanging information over some super tasty shrimp and grits. Not only was this to be a weekend of smart talk, but a food marathon of surviving crusty bread, butter drenched fish and the occasional vegetable.

The next morning the conference kicked off. Here it must be mentioned that a teeny little con war broke out, GraphiCon vs Library Con. The first is a forum organized by the ALA GN interest group – and this year focused on adult graphic novel collection, a frontier topic where best practices are still being developed. Library Con was held across the hall and in somewhat the same time period and is organized by Random House. There was some grumbling about the timing, although both programs were arranged to fill up the time before Michele Obama’s keynote and the exhibit hall opening at 5:30. There were some great panels on both programs, and certainly a lot to do. Random House did stack the deck a bit by offering a free boxed lunch. I decided to eat half of an egg salad sandwich from Starbucks instead. This delicacy is no longer available in NYC – probably because it’s too fattening for diet conscious New Yorkers – but one half made a great breakfast and the second half made a good lunch!

Graphic Con kicked off with a panel on “Building and Justifying Adult Graphic Novel Collections in Public and Academic Libraries” with Andrew Woodrow Butcher, Amanda Melilli (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Marcela Peres (Lewiston Public Library, ME), and creators Ezra Claytan Daniels and Eric Shanower.

The main point of all the programming is that just as kids and YA collections – now well established at most libraries – started out slow, adult collections need to build on the success of those other age groups. Shelving remains a problem though. A recurring villain was “741.5” the Dewey Decimal category where graphic novels are shoved into one big blob. How to organize within this number – by author or series or age rating – is an ongoing issue.

Also what to collect is hard to pin down since there are more lists and awards for juvenile categories. (The Beat was mentioned several times as a resource for more information on graphic novels, giving me a serious case of “must do more!”) Adult collections are still built on a case by case basis. “Going online to find titles is not the best approach. One size doesn’t fit all since libraries don’t all have the same users and needs,” said UNLV’s Mellili. “You want it to be a reflection of the rest of your collection.”

Peres had a few success stories. She said the adult collection at her library has grown from 300 check outs a year to 1300 over the last five years. She’s also used innovative marketing approaches, such as a GN reading group held at a local brewery.

Shanower noted that his Age of Bronze was still finding an audience in libraries. “I don’t think there’s resistance like there might have been in 20th century, but there is still education that needs to be made.” Asked about whether his book has ever been challenged he joked “I wish it would be!”

Subsequent panels delved more into the topic from the publisher and creator sides. Image has a robust library program, led by Chloe Ramos Peterson, a former librarian herself, and the importance of catalogs, lists, newsletter and other resources for librarians was repeatedly mentioned. For creators, sometimes it does become a content issue – one scene may push a title from a comfy home in the YA section to an uncertain future in the adult collection, and it’s a decision creators have to weigh.

Reader resistance was also mentioned a few times. “Some adults are just embarrassed to be seen checking out comics,” said one librarian (sorry my notes don’t say who.) Overcoming this resistance with events and education is a slow but necessary step.

After the library conferences wrapped up everyone but me went off to see Michelle Obama speak. People had been lined up since 9 am – a different kind of Hall H indeed – and I didn’t want to get caught in a long line.

The exhibit hall for ALA has a kind of mini preview night – very mini as it’s only 90 minutes long – and after the keynote, everyone filed in. A big topic when I was around – maybe because I kept bringing it up – was the announcement of DC’s Wal-Mart exclusive. I had a lively discussion of the topic over dinner with retailer Brian Hibbs who, like myself, had been brought to the show by Lion Forge to liaise with the library world. (Brian promises he’ll have one of his epic columns about the experience next week.)

As lot of our discussion can be seen in the piece that I wrote the next morning. Brian feels strongly that exclusives that the DM can’t get are the wrong way to build a bigger audience for comics, but that’s his story to tell and I’ll leave him to state his own case.

Saturday, for me, was more of the same, wandering the vast hall to find the comics folks, and chatting them up. The Ernest Morial Convention Center – a place I haven’t been since before Katrina – is very very long and narrow and the show floor had the GN stage and pavilion at one end, with long stretches of library tech in between, studded with pockets of publishers.

Despite all the excitement over books, many exhibits at ALA are given over to actual library tech. I don’t really know what all those scanners and conveyor belt sorters did, so I will leave librarians to explain what they were looking for. Fantagraphics had set up with Norton, D&Q with McMillan, Uncivilized and Iron Circus in Consortium, Dark Horse and DC set up side by side in the Random House aisle. Some publishers made the decision to be in the distro area, but many other stuck it out in the GN pavilion, notably IDW/Top Shelf, Boom and all of the manga publishers on hand, Viz, TokyoPop, Yen Press and Udon. While it was all the way at the end of the hall, the Graphic Novel Stage served as a focal point.

There were many creators on hand, including a host of the DC Zoom and DC Ink writers, and of course the whole artist alley, which was small but significant. Due to the size of the hall, crowds would tend to come in waves. Much like BEA there were often long lines for signings, and librarians love free stuff just like everyone else.

I did attend the presentation DC Zoom and DC Ink lines led by VP Michele Wells and featuring writers Mariko Tamaki, Danielle Paige, Shea Fontana, Ridley Pearson, Kami Garcia, Meg Cabot, and Lauren Myracle. Unlike the long ago Minx (which this is often compared to) these lines feature veteran YA and kids authors who bring their own followings to an initiative aimed firmly at bookstores. It’s funny how retailers aren’t worried about THESE comics, isn’t it?

The mood was very different from the usual superhero hype panel, which usually consists of something like the following. “Remember issue #327 of Amygdala Man, where he finds a pair of underpants on the beach? Well in issue #600 we’re going to find out who they belong to and how it fits in with what Sprawlmeister has been up to.”

Instead the plans all spoke to the aspirational and emotional state of the young superheroes, with their motivations and family issues being covered to show how they overcame – or didn’t – problems to be heroes. Basic stuff really. The giveaway booklets for both lines featured sizable previews of most titles, and the art is sharp on these! As mentioned on twitter, DC Superhero Girls is the real disruption in the superhero biz, with thousands and thousands of copies sold and a whole generation of girls coming to love these characters.

Saturday night saw a sort of comics social event of the ALA, the Will Eisner Library Grant Reception, led by Carl and Anne Gropper and John Shableski. Grants were presented to two libraries for their projects, and a few speeches were made. Jason Latour (above) delivered a key note, noting how styrange it was “for a kid who spent a lot of time in detention to be talking to a room full of librarians.” Olivier Jalabert of Glenát also delivered some very funny remarks.

The event was another one where the spirit of Will Eisner was conjured. In a display of unique clairvoyance, he foresaw the rise of the graphic novel. Perhaps New Orleans was the place for his ghost to appear and see that his works were good.

Sunday was pretty much just more of all of this. I did the “Underrated and Overrated graphic Novels” panel, a terrifying chance to go on the record with some disses, but I won’t reveal what was said. My fellow panelist Gene Ha did repeatedly ding Chris Hart, whose “anatomy books” for artists are cheesy and full of mistakes, so I’ll go along with that: Christopher Hart isnogood!

I also popped into a panel featuring Mark Siegel in a panel discussion with First Second star authors Vera Brosgol and Ngozi Ukazu. At one point in the free-flowing conversation, Vera and Ngozi were asked why their artwork connects with readers both inside and outside the comics ‘geekdom’. Vera answered with a tip for young artists: “make the eyes bigger.” And the conversation went on into why humans are hardwired to love baby features, and sometimes cartooning might just tap into that – the appeal of “neoteny” in current comics styles hasn’t been much explored, so here’s your cue!

Also the great Raina, so often mentioned, was in attendance, although just to hang out, and led to this epic photo.

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Sunday afternoon was also the big day for the presentation to the ALA governing board about the Graphic Novel Round Table. The librarians presenting the proposal had been nervous about it all weekend. Honestly no one thought it wouldn’t be picked up. When a call for interested parties went out they hoped for 200 responses but got 1000.

And that’s really the bottom line about the ALA. Librarians love comics not because it’s a secret hobby they try to fob off on other people – graphic novels are highly circulated books in libraries. There is an avid readership and a growing need for more information about all of it. I think a lot of first time ALA attendees thought that their job would be trying to persuade librarians to give comics a try, but the reality is that curators are way ahead of that – they’re always looking for MORE information about the publishers and authors their patrons are interested in, and more information to justify their purchasing budgets. They are hungry for more books that people can read and enjoy.

Far from the roil of the DM, graphic novels were clearly on the upswing “Graphic novels are big and they’re just going to get bigger,” someone at the Disney booth, of all places, told me.

Creator Frank Cammuso had an even more blunt assessment. “I think libraries saved comics,” he told me. Looking back at how comics emerged from the wreck of the post speculation market into the manga-fueled era of bookstore comics, and the recovery following Borders going under, library sales have risen steadily, an invisible but integral part of the business for publishers smart enough to get in on it. The numbers don’t lie: There are an estimated 119,487 libraries in the US, including 16,000 public libraries and nearly 100,000 school libraries. A hit in this market dwarfs the direct sales market, and doesn’t even show up on Bookscan.

So yeah, it was a good time. Despite all the shit going on in the outside world, I couldn’t help but feel optimistic as I made one last stroll through the feels-like-105-degree sauna of New Orleans. Perhaps I was just infected with a swamp dream, maybe it was just the low-stress experience of spending a whole weekend surrounded by smart, literate people. Maybe I was just bathed in the smiles and fellowship of people talking about the thing they love. For me, the ALA in New Orleans was the time and place to be feel good about what we’ve accomplished and look forward to doing even more.

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10 Best Sites in the United States for a First Take a look at – I am Aileen

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Water Resources and Management

ONCE WAS WATER

Directed by Christopher Beaver

Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.

Las Vegas is perhaps the most famous resort city in the world. It is also the thirstiest city in the driest state in the US, so it has had to be proactive in developing solutions that conserve and redistribute water, their most precious resource. Currently the city is faced with only 2.6 inches of rain per annum, a seventeen-year drought, a constantly expanding population and competition for shared resources. As a result, the city has been forced to create its own sustainable water solutions and in the process has turned itself into an example for other desert regions.

Everything to do with their water supply and disposal is watched, measured and checked. Water is recycled and returned to the source. Every drop is monitored acoustically to detect possible leaks within 6500 miles of pipes. 40% of the water is recycled for indoor use and returned to Lake Mead, 40% of what goes out comes back, but the remaining 60% is for outdoor use and either evaporates or goes back into the ground.

The film follows the story of Patricia Mulroy, the controversial founder of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. Her strength and leadership "helped launch a quiet revolution that will shape Colorado River politics far into the future, and perhaps provide a path to safety in the face of intensifying water scarcity."

The story of Las Vegas's approach to water sustainability is full of surprises, and we hear it from many different perspectives. After all, the strip is just a small part of the valley, but it is the engine that provides the cash to enable the experimentation that has created these models for survival.

DVD / 2019 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 55 minutes

AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK

Directed by Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey

Record of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.

Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline's demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. The film documents the story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. It asks: "Are you ready to join the fight?"

DVD / 2017 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 89 minutes

TRIPLE DIVIDE (REDACTED)

Directed by Joshua Pribanic, Melissa Troutman

Exposes the mishandling and cover-up of drinking water contamination related to unconventional natural gas extraction - aka fracking - in Pennsylvania.

This award-winning "bombshell" documentary covers the impact of fracking in one of the country's most pristine watersheds. With exclusive interviews from oil and gas industry leaders, independent experts and impacted residents, TRIPLE DIVIDE [REDACTED] covers five years (2011 - 2016) of cradle-to-grave investigations that reveal how regulators and industry keep water contamination covered up.

The documentary's title pays homage to one of only four Triple Continental Divides in North America, a place that provides drinking water to millions of Americans, signaling to the audience that everything, and everyone, is downstream from shale gas extraction.

Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo co-narrates this film.

DVD / 2017 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 53 minutes

BLUESPACE

Directed by Ian Cheney

Contrasts sci-fi ideas about terraforming Mars with the state of NYC's waterways, and questions the viability of colonizing Mars before making our own planet sustainable.

Could humans live on Mars? Would we want to? Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Ian Cheney, provides insight into our currently unsustainable relationship with our home planet by examining the sci-fi speculation of "terraforming," or making another planet Earth-like, by altering its atmosphere. He calls on a multifaceted brain trust to process this big idea including a desert camp of Mars hopefuls, a bevy of sci-fi writers, Hurricane Sandy survivors, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, and a who's who of astrobiologists and earth scientists. BLUESPACE makes a strong case for taking better care of our water-rich planet so that future generations won't have to resort to interplanetary colonization.

At times whimsical and funny, serious and poignant and always stimulating, this is a unique exploration of current thinking about the origins and evolution of life and its relationship to water.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adults) / 73 minutes

AFTER THE SPILL

Directed by Jon Boweraster

The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.

Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the worst ecologic disaster in North American history. Amazingly those aren't the worst things facing Louisiana's coastline today. It is that the state is fast disappearing through coastal erosion caused largely by oil and gas industry activity.

A follow-up to our 2010 film SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories, this film introduces us to some of the spill's most aggrieved victims as well as those who are desperately trying to save its coastline. Writer and historian John Barry who launched a suit against 97 oil and gas companies attempting to get them to pay their fair share for reparations caused by their explorations. Consultant and native son James Carville who manages to find some hope in new technologies that may save the coast. And Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, the man who saved New Orleans post-Katrina, whose new passion is for a Green Army he has recruited.

Fishermen, scientists, politicians, environmentalists, and oil-rig workers document how the coast of Louisiana has changed. What really happened to all that oil? What about the dispersant used to push it beneath the surface? How has the spill impacted local economies as well as human health and the health of both marine life and the Gulf itself? How much resilience is left in the people and coastline?

DVD / 2015 / (Grades 7-12, Colleges, Adults) / 62 minutes

DIVIDE IN CONCORD

Directed by Kris Kaczor

A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.

Jean Hill, a fiery octogenarian, is deeply concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world's largest landfill. Since 2010, she has spearheaded a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. She spends her golden years attending city council meetings and cold calling residents. So far, her attempts to pass a municipal bylaw have failed.

As she prepares for one last town meeting, Jean faces the strongest opposition yet, from local merchants and the International Bottled Water Association. But her fiercest challenge comes from Adriana Cohen, mother, model and celebrity publicist-turned-pundit, who insists the bill is an attack on freedom.

When Adriana thrusts Jean's crusade into the national spotlight, it's silver-haired senior versus silver-tongued pro. In the same town that incited the American Revolution and inspired Thoreau's environmental movement, can one senior citizen make history? A tense nail-biter of a vote will decide.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 5-12, College, Adult) / 142 minutes

GROUNDSWELL RISING: PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN'S AIR AND WATER

Directed by Renard Cohen

Documents the opposition from both sides of the political spectrum to the ubiquitous practice of fracking for natural gas, and the health and environmental reasons behind it.

GROUNDSWELL RISING gives voice to ordinary folks engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas. We meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction process known as fracking that puts profits over people. This provocative documentary tracks a grassroots movement exposing dangers to clean air, water, and civil rights.

GROUNDSWELL RISING shows how fracking has contaminated drinking water and jeopardized health and quality of life. Homeowners near wells suffer from respiratory ailments and property devaluation. Reina Ripple, of Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, chronicles mounting ailments related to fracking. A former industry employee shows skin lesions and edema obtained while working with fracking waste.

Grassroots efforts have achieved bans, moratoriums, and referendums on fracking. Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson paves the way forward globally with his Solutions Project for 100% renewable energy. Transcending the genre of environmental film, GROUNDSWELL's passionate stories inspire and empower.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 70 minutes

CHASING WATER

Directed by Pete McBride

Breathtaking photography tells the story of the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90 miles short of the Sea of Cortez.

After spending a decade working abroad as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete McBride, decided to focus on something closer to his home and his heart: the Colorado River which cuts through his backyard. Taking nearly three years, McBride followed the river source to sea on a personal journey to see exactly where the river goes and what becomes of the irrigation water that flows across his family's cattle ranch in central Colorado after it returns to the creek.

Recruiting his father, John, as his personal pilot McBride chose an aerial vantage to capture a unique and fresh view of the Colorado River Basin. He also partnered with Jon Waterman, an author who stayed stream level to paddle the entire length of the river.

This short film takes the viewer on a 1,500 mile adventure downstream, from mountains and cities and through canyons and across shrinking reservoirs. For 6 million years the Colorado River flowed to the sea. Today it runs dry some 90 miles shy of its historic terminus at the Sea of Cortez.

This visual journey is both revealing and alarming as it highlights the state of the river and the Southwest's drying future.

Featuring the photography of Pete McBride and music by Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Jesse Cook, and Ludovico Einaudi.

DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 18 minutes

SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL

Directed by Rachel Libert, Tony Hardmon

Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger reveals the Marine Corps' cover-up at Camp Lejeune of one of the largest water contamination incidents in US history.

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years. As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the "Corps" and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or "Always Faithful."

When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he struggled for years to make sense of what happened. His search for answers led to the shocking discovery of a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history.

Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Jerry's mission to expose the Marine Corps and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of soldiers and their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a grave injustice at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and a looming environmental crisis at military sites across the country.

DVD / 2011 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 76 minutes

SOLA: LOUISIANA WATER STORIES

Investigates how the exploitation of Southern Louisiana's abundant natural resources compromised the resiliency of its ecology and culture, multiplying the devastating impact of the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there's water: rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $2.4 billion a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports.

They are also home to some insidious polluters: the same oil and gas industry, 200 petrochemical plants along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year. At the same time, SoLa is home to one of America's most vital and unique cultures; if everyone who lives there has a water story they can also most likely play the fiddle, waltz, cook an etoufee and hunt and fish.

DVD / 2010 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 62 minutes

WATER ON THE TABLE

An intimate portrait of international water activist Maude Barlow and the debate over whether water is a commercial good or a human right.

WATER ON THE TABLE features Maude Barlow, who is considered an "international water-warrior" for her crusade to have water declared a human right. "Water must be declared a public trust and a human right that belongs to the people, the ecosystem and the future, and preserved for all time and practice in law. Clean water must be delivered as a public service, not a profitable commodity."

The film intimately captures the public face of Maude Barlow as well as the unscripted woman behind the scenes. The camera shadows her life on the road in Canada -- including an eye-opening visit to Alberta's tar sands -- and the United States over the course of a year as she serves as the UN Senior Advisor on Water to Fr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations.

More than a portrait of an activist, WATER ON THE TABLE presents several dramatic opposing arguments. Barlow's critics are policy and economic experts who argue water is no different than any other resource, and that the best way to protect freshwater is to privatize it. It is proposed that Canada bulk-export its water to the United States in the face of an imminent water crisis.

DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 79 minutes

TAPPED

Directed by Stephanie Soechtig

An unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car? And I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of the bottled water industry -- an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water.

From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 75 minutes

WATERLIFE

Directed by Kevin McMahon

An epic cinematic poem that reveals the extraordinary beauty and complex toxicity of the Great Lakes, the largest remaining supply of fresh water (20%) on Earth.

The film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by following the cascade of its water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lake for survival.

Providing earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and its third largest industrial economy, the Great Lakes are a unique and precious resource under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporating water and profound apathy. They are also one of the planet's great preserves of extraordinary wilderness beauty and a bounty of unique species.

WATERLIFE blends these realities with a dreamlike fluidity as it pours through the lives of some amazing characters. We meet an Anishinabe medicine woman who walked 16,000 miles around the lakes to sympathize with them; the last of the great Michigan fishing families; a man whose lakefront home now borders a field thanks to sewer overflows; the people of a village where mysterious toxins ensure that most new babies are girls; and the residents of Love Canal, a notorious Niagara Falls neighborhood abandoned in the 1970s and now dubiously refurbished.

Along the way, WATERLIFE show viewers the Great Lakes as they might appear to a seagull, a fish or a water molecule...and from a myriad of other amazing perspectives. Filmed over a full year with a battery of specialty cameras and techniques, WATERLIFE provides an unprecedented view of an incredible ecosystem rarely seen by the city dwellers who form most of its population. From the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, viewers are carried through marsh and pipe, across pounding waves and through thunder clouds on a journey which, as the film says, has no "ending or beginning, that shapes every body it passes through and unites them all across space and time."

WATERLIFE's director, Kevin McMahon, is one of Canada's most innovative documentary filmmakers. Gord Downie, leader of The Tragically Hip and a Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, narrates the film. Topping off this epic cinematic poem is a fabulous soundtrack featuring Sam Roberts, The Allman Brothers, Dropkick Murphys, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur R?, Robbie Robertson, Daniel Lanois, Phillip Glass, Brian Eno and a new song by The Tragically Hip. Plus check out the award-winning interactive website.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 109 minutes

RETURN OF THE CUYAHOGA, THE

Directed by Lawrence R. Hott and Diane Garey

The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.

For centuries, the Cuyahoga River has been on the frontier. When the United States was a new nation, the river literally marked the western frontier. But "civilization" came to the river; by 1870 the river was on the industrial frontier. On the river's banks sprouted a multitude of factories, a booming display of what was called progress. The river, as it flowed through Cleveland, became a foul-smelling channel of sludge, with an oily surface that ignited with such regularity that river fires were treated as commonplace events by the local press.

But then, in 1969, the river burned again, just as a third kind of frontier swept across the nation: an environmental frontier. And the Cuyahoga River became a landmark on this frontier too -- a poster child for those trying to undo the destruction wrought by progress in America.

The Return of the Cuyahoga is a one-hour documentary about the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways. In its history we see the end of the American frontier, the growth of industry, the scourge of pollution and the advent of a political movement that sought to end pollution.

The Cuyahoga's story is a particularly apt example for future environmental efforts, because the once burning river can't just be cleaned up and "set aside" as a pristine wilderness park - it runs right through Cleveland, and like most American rivers, the Cuyahoga has to serve widely varying needs - aesthetic and economic, practical and natural, human and animal. The challenge: how to maintain industrial uses of the river near Lake Erie, encourage recreation and entertainment, and yet preserve the nature in and around the river. It's the same challenge that much of our riparian nation is facing today.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes

WATER FIRST: REACHING THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Directed by Amy Hart

An inspiring story from Malawi shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

Through the inspiring story of Charles Banda, a humble Malawian fireman turned waterman, we see how water is a solution to many of the problems in his impoverished, sub- Saharan country. From hunger and poverty to women's equality and population control, HIV/AIDS to environmental sustainability, Banda makes it clear that the best way to assist and empower people in developing nations, and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is by putting water first.

Water First draws a clear correlation between clean water and all of the other Millennium Development Goals. The goals are a set of 8 targets set by the UN in the year 2000 and endorsed by 187 nations. Sadly, at the halfway mark, we are less than halfway there. Charles Banda believes that if more people knew about the MDGs we would have a much better chance of achieving them. And, if clean water was the top priority, achieving the goals would be much more feasible. "30% of the goals would automatically be achieved if everyone had clean water," says John Oldfield of Water Advocates.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 46 minutes

WATER FRONT, THE

Directed by Liz Miller

The story of Highland Park, Michigan, and the larger issues of water privatization and human rights.

What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it?

With a shrinking population, the post-industrial city of Highland Park, Michigan is on the verge of financial collapse. The state of Michigan has appointed an Emergency Financial Manager who sees the water plant as key to economic recovery. She has raised water rates and has implemented severe measures to collect on bills. As a result, Highland Park residents have received water bills as high as $10,000, they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are struggling to keep water, a basic human right, from becoming privatized.

The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles. The film raises questions such as: Who determines the future of shared public resources? What are alternatives to water privatization? How will we maintain our public water systems and who can we hold accountable?

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2007 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 53 minutes

SWIM FOR THE RIVER

Directed by Tom Weidlinger

The story of the Hudson, and the battle to save it, are told as Chris Swain swims the entire length of the river.

Christopher Swain braved whitewater, sewage, snapping turtles, hydroelectric dams, homeland security patrols, factory outfalls, and PCB contamination to become the first person to swim the entire length of the Hudson River from the Adirondack Mountains to New York City.

Swain's experience links together stories of the river, which begins in wilderness and ends in one of the nation's densest population centers. We meet heroes who are fighting to protect the Hudson against a range of threats from industry, inept regulatory agencies, and public indifference. We also see how ordinary citizens can and do make a difference through choices they make effecting the environment, and by joining together around a common cause.

DVD (Color, With 58 Pages Teacher's Guide) / 2006 / (Grades 6-12, College, Adult) / 56 minutes

RISING WATERS: GLOBAL WARMING AND THE FATE OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Shows that global warming is already hurting the Pacific Islands.

" We are like the warning system for the whole world to see." Penehuro Lefale, Samoa

For 7 million people living on thousands of islands scattered across the Pacific ocean, global warming is not something that looms in the distant future: it's a threat whose first effects may have already begun.

Through personal stories of Pacific Islanders, RISING WATERS: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands puts a human face on the international climate change debate.

The majority of scientists around the world now agree that global warming is real, and key studies show that the tropical Pacific islands will be hit first and hardest by its effects. The water temperature in the tropical Pacific has risen dramatically over the last two decades, bleaching coral and stressing marine ecosystems. Sea level rise threatens to inundate islands, and extreme weather events -- such as more frequent and intense El Ninos, severe droughts, and mega hurricanes -- could wipe out ecosystems and the way of life that has existed for thousands of years.

"Way before most of these islands go under, they're going to lose their fresh water supply." Anginette Heffernan, Fiji

In the program, islanders show the viewers the physical and cultural impacts caused by global warming. Unusual high tides have swept the low-lying atolls of Micronesia, destroying crops and polluting fresh water supplies. Ancestral graveyards are being destroyed by the impacts of rogue waves and erosion never witnessed before the last decade. An increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes is making it difficult for island communities and ecosystems to recover.

"It's very difficult for someone living in the United States to grasp the fact that if the sea level rises just a few feet, a whole nation will disappear." Ben Graham, Republic of the Marshall Islands

But the islanders' stories have not convinced everyone in the rest of the world. Some scientists refute the studies, and business leaders and economists warn that forcing industries to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions will cause a global economic collapse.

While the policy makers and scientists argue about when and how much to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next twenty years, many Pacific Islanders are wondering if they will have a future. One thing is known: the longer emission reductions are delayed, the harder it will be to curb the effects of global warming, and prevent sea level rise from devastating the Pacific Islands.

What, then, should the islanders do? Whom should they believe? Where would they go if forced to leave their homes? RISING WATERS explores what it means to live under a cloud of scientific uncertainty, examining both human experience and expert scientific evidence. The problems facing the islanders serve as an urgent warning to the rest of the world.

Locations include Kiribati, the Samoas, Hawai'I, the atolls of Micronesia including the Marshall Islands, as well as laboratories and research centers in the continental United States. RISING WATERS weaves the portraits of the islanders with historical film and video materials, interviews with top scientists, and voiceover. 3D animation is used to illustrate key scientific concepts.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2000 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes

WIND RIVER

The battle over water rights on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.

WIND RIVER is a modern-day story of cowboys and Indians. White ranchers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming are fighting to protect their long-held water rights for irrigated agriculture. The Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes are fighting to save the de-watered Wind River and a part of their own heritage.

This is a classic example of the changing face of the West, as environmentalists and Indian activists use the courts in an attempt to curtail some of the traditional, but harmful, practices of white ranchers and farmers.

DVD (Color) / 2000 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 33 minutes

LOOK AGAIN: JOURNEY OF THE BLOB

An illustration of the water cycle in a cautionary tale about pollution.

This classic, wordless film from the "Look Again" series tells a story that appeals to all ages, and is used widely in environmental education courses around the country.

A boy makes a decision about how to dispose of a green glob he has concocted. What will happen if he dumps it into a stream? Where does water come from and where does it go? This film illustrates the water cycle and raises many questions about environmental responsibility and the consequences of our decisions.

DVD (Color) / 1989 / (Grades P-6, Adult) / 10 minutes

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10 Most Traveled US Cities of 2017 (So Far)

When you want to know where to go on vacation, sometimes your best bet is to figure out where everybody else is already going. Based on some of our visitors and travel statistics, these US cities are seeing the most traffic. Here’s a current peak at where our visitors are booking their hotel stays across the country. So Where’s Everybody Going? New York, New York Good luck getting that Sinatra song out of your head now, or did Billy Joel or Taylor Swift come to mind first? I guess that could tell you a little about yourself depending on what little ditty popped into your head. If there was one metropolis in the world that everyone should visit, it’s probably NYC. From the looks of it, some of you are even visiting it more than once. So if you are looking to book your first adventure to the Big Apple your list of Must Do’s might be pretty long. It can be tough squeezing everything there is to do in New York City into one trip, which you will quickly learn after you get there. It’s going to take you more than a New York Minute to soak it all in, and it’s going to cost you a little bit of money to get around unless you really like to walk. Las Vegas, Nevada Oft called “Sin City”, this glitzy town is a refreshing oasis in an otherwise boring desert. Las Vegas is one place you can visit time and time again and it always provides something new to do. This is one of the go-to stops for girls trips, guys trips, solo trips, you name it. As the saying goes “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, though social media has been throwing a wrench in that for years. When in Las Vegas you can take in one of the many shows, whether it be a Concert, Cirque du Soleil, Comedy, Magic, Burlesque, or whatever else floats your boat. You can also dine on some great buffets, and at prices that won’t break the bank (though we can’t say the same about the casinos). When you are here you will always feel like a winner, even when you are hemorrhaging money because your senses are almost always stimulated. Be weary of the morning though, as hangovers are still very real and they rarely stop serving the sauce 24 hours a day. Orlando, Florida It’s got to be the theme parks, because Orlando is just loaded with them. The wholesome family fun is a great reason to visit this inland empire, because it’s hours from the beach. Attractions like Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World and many more are going to keep you and the kids busy for days. Besides, who said you had to be a kid to have fun at all of those theme parks and water parks? We recommend staying for a week if you can help it, and breaking your trip up into a couple days here and a day or two there. One thing is for sure, you’ll probably be planning your return visit before you even head back home. New Orleans, Louisiana Often regarded as on of the most unique centers for cuisine, culture, and music around the world, New Orleans is the one city in the United States that might truly make you feel like you have been transported to another country. The home of jazz music, cajun food, and possibly Southern Charm. This destination is meant to be crossed off your list ASAP, as it commands heightened levels from all of your senses. San Francisco, California Maybe the Capitol of Cool, San Francisco is still in the spotlight fro travelers of all sorts. It’s a great site-seeing city that makes a perfect stop for the booming bleisure travel segment, and it is a proverbial melting pot of cultures. Two of the most iconic landmarks in the city are the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz. Tourists and locals alike often grab a sourdough bread bowl filled with freshly made clam chowder, or decadent Ghirardelli chocolates, all located at the end of the trolley line at the Piers. To call their China Town quaint would be an understatement, as their is more the prototypical city within a city where old men still play chess in the streets at all hours of the day. Not to be outdone, even the Japanese have their own cultural hub called Nihonmachi (Japan Town if you will). Take a ride on the world famous Trolleys up and down the steep hills of the city, all the way to the historic financial district to enjoy a fine dinner with a view. Miami, Florida Maybe it could be considered a faux pas to include more than one city from the same state in this list, but Miami is so deserving. Nothing like the Orlando counter-part and hours apart, they may as well be completely different, because they are. Miami is full of hustle and nightlife, scores of good seafood restaurants, and miles of Cuban cultural influences. There may be no theme parks in site, but the beaches and nightclubs make Miami a great place to visit if you are of age to partake in the festivities. San Antonio, Texas Texas, as a state, draw a lot of tourism each year. It would be hard to draft a list of popular place in the US without considering cities like Dallas, Austin, Houston, or San Antonio, but for the purposes of this list San Antonio takes the cake. Here you can discover the monumental Alamo (it’s so small you can practically walk right by it without even noticing), take a stroll on the waterfront district with its shops and dining, or jaunt over to nearby New Braunfels and float down the river or splash down at Schlitterbahn water park. Lots of big businesses have been making San Antonio their home over the recent years, adding to the influx of tourists and out of towners taking the city by storm. Seattle, Washington Not that there is really more than one Seattle, but this is just an all around great place to visit. You can spend a day here, or even a whole week, either way you will still probably want to come back. The calm and collected Puget Sound, the foggy and drizzly streets, fresh fish markets, and the immediately recognizable Space Needle take a back seat to the landscape that lies in the background. Mount St Helens with its snow-topped peaks commands respect, not just for its reputation, but also for its majesty. Chicago, Illinois If you haven’t been to Chicago, you might not get it. What’s the big deal after all? Well, one trip might have you enthralled with all there is to see and do in one large city. The streets seemingly go on for days and days as this sprawled metropolis dominates all of the surrounding nearby landscape….all except for Lake Michigan. Whoever decided to call this body of water, flocked with seagulls, a lake must have been joking. Chicago is full of steel skyscrapers, historic stone buildings, and lots of interesting people. Unlike some cities that just offer food and booze as a source of entertainment value (trust us, Chicago has all that too), Chicago provides a glimpse into so much art, history, culture, and influence. Denver, Colorado The Mile High city is a peaceful place to take a trip. The city is full of lots of outdoor activities, the air is relatively fresh, and there is a slower pace to life here than most of the other cities on this list. The post 10 Most Traveled US Cities of 2017 (So Far) appeared first on Must Do Travels.

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Looking For Anti-Trump Protests? Here Are Dozens To Choose From.

A man who bragged about sexually assaulting women, mocked a reporter with a disabilityand invited a foreign adversary to hack the U.S. government will be sworn in next Friday as the 45th president of the United States.

And while its a fact that President-elect Donald Trump will be the next leader of the free world the first one to refuse to release his taxes since 1976, by the way you certainly dont have to like it.

You can voice your concern at one of the hundreds of demonstrations planned across the country and around the world in the days surrounding the inauguration.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with congressional Democrats and health care activists, plans to lead dozens of rallies nationwide in an initiative called Our First Stand: Save Our Health Care. Most of the events are scheduled for this weekend, a few days before the inauguration.

Hundreds of poets are expected to gather on the steps of their local city halls on Sunday, Jan. 15, during the nationwide Poets Protest Against Trump.

Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore tweetedlast month in support of the #DisruptJ20 Inauguration Day rallies planned around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.The events are led by a collective of experience activists who call themselves the DC Welcoming Committee, according to the #DisruptJ20 website, which also lists numerous protests beyond the Beltway.

And, of course, the Womens March on Washington and its more than 280 sister marches are expected to be the main event on Saturday, Jan. 21.

Nearly 600,000 people of all gender identities are expected to flood the streets of major cities across the world on Trumps first full day in office.

For even more events, take a look at the listings below, which we will continue to update. Be sure to check which events have been issued permits, and know that your participation in non-permitted demonstrations could result in arrest.

And if those events are a no-go, you can always participate in the national general strike by refusing to work, shop or go to school on Inauguration Day.

However you plan to resist, stay safe and open-minded. Remember to listen to and respect one another.

Now go forth and protest.

Note: This is not a comprehensive list of events. This article will be updated as more information becomes available. Check back for updates.

Arizona

Phoenix

Friday, Jan. 20

Trump Inauguration Protest

6 a.m. at Carnegie Library Park

California

Los Angeles

Saturday, Jan. 14

#NoFascistUSA

12 p.m. at Los Angeles City Hall

Friday, Jan. 20

United Against Hate

11 a.m. at Olympic and Figueroa

Palo Alto

Friday, Jan. 20

#NotOurPresident

5 p.m. at El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road

Sacramento

Friday, Jan. 20

Not My President

2 p.m. at California State Capitol

San Diego

Friday, Jan. 20

Unite and Resits #J20

10:30 a.m. at San Diego State College and Chicano Park

Protest Trump

12 p.m. at Park Boulevard and Presidents Way Lawn

San Francisco

Friday, Jan. 20

Bridge Together Golden Gate

10 a.m. at the Golden Gate Bridge

Fight Racism, Defend Immigrants, San Francisco

5 p.m. at UN Plaza

Colorado

Denver

Friday, Jan. 20

Make a Change Millennial Festival

1:30 p.m. at Denver Capitol Building

Florida

Miami

Friday, Jan. 20

Inauguration Day Protest

6 p.m. Bayfront Park Amphitheater

Orlando

Friday, Jan. 20

Inauguration Day Protest

6 p.m. Lake Eola Park

Georgia

Athens

Friday, Jan. 20

Inauguration Night Bash for Local Abortion Access

8 p.m. at Cine Athena

Atlanta

Saturday, Jan. 21

Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women

1 p.m. at the Center for Civil and Human Rights

Hawaii

Honolulu

Friday, Jan. 20

Hawaii-J20

4 p.m. Waikiki Gateway Park

Illinois

Chicago

Sunday, Jan. 15

Earth2Trump Roadshow of Resistance Rally, Chicago

6 p.m. at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

Friday, Jan. 20

Chicago Trump Tower March

5 p.m. at Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago

Kentucky

Murray

Saturday, Jan. 21

March for Equality and Social Justice

10 a.m. at Faculty Hall at Murray State University

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Protesters hold signs while demonstrating during a rally against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., Nov. 15, 2016.

Louisiana

New Orleans

Friday, Jan. 20

NOLAJ20

3 p.m. at Duncan Park in City Hall Plaza

Maine

Portland

Thursday, Jan. 19

No Fascist USA

2 p.m. at Monument Park

Massachusetts

Boston

Friday, Jan. 20

Resist Trump: Occupy Inauguration Boston!

6 p.m. at Boston Commons Parkman Bandstand

Michigan

Grand Rapids

Saturday, Jan. 21

Support the Womens March on Washington

10 a.m. at the Fountain Street Church

Minnesota

Minneapolis

Friday, Jan. 20

Strike Against Trump and Poverty Wages

5:30 a.m. at 1530 New Brighton Blvd.

Resist Against Trumps Agenda

2 p.m. at Lake Street and Nicollet Ave. S

Missouri

Kansas City

Friday, Jan. 20

Kansas City Trump Inauguration Protest

2 p.m. at Union Station

Nevada

Las Vegas

Thursday, Jan. 19

Anti-Trump Inauguration Eve March

4 p.m. at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas

New York

New York City

Saturday, Jan. 14

Queens United Against Trump Rally

1 p.m. at Jamaica Colosseum Mall

Sunday, Jan. 15

Truth. Resistance. Opposition. March on Trump Tower

11:30 a.m. at 5th Avenue and 59th Street

TrumpCare Makes Us Sick!

12:30 p.m. at Trump International Hotel and Tower NYC

Writers Resist: Louder Together for Free Expression

2 p.m. at the New York Public Library

Monday, Jan. 16

Bay Ridge March Against Hate

1 p.m. at Islamic Society of Bay Ridge

Wednesday, Jan. 18

Obama Farewell & Call To Action

7 p.m. at Theater for the New City

Thursday, Jan. 19

Trump Tower Protest with Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin and Mark Ruffalo

6 p.m. at Trump International Hotel and Tower NYC

What A Joke: A Stand Up Benefit For The ACLU

8 p.m. at The Stand

Friday, Jan. 20

Resist Trump: Student Walk Out and Rally

5 p.m. in Foley Square, student walkouts throughout the day

Anti-Inauguration Ball

7 p.m. at DiMenna Center for Classical Music

What A Joke: A Stand Up Benefit For The ACLU

8 p.m. at Annoyance Theater

The Anti-Inauguration

8 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre

The UNaugural Ball

9 p.m. at the Bowery Hotel

Saturday, Jan. 21

What A Joke: A Stand Up Benefit For The ACLU

7:30 p.m. at Rough Trade

North Carolina

Durham

Friday, Jan. 20

Trump Inauguration Protest

5:30 p.m. at CCB Plaza

Ohio

Cleveland

Saturday, Jan. 14

Anti-Trump Protest

5 p.m. at Cleveland Public Square

Oregon

Portland

Friday, Jan. 20

Inauguration Day Protest

4 p.m. at Pioneer Courthouse Square

Saturday, Jan. 21

United Front Against the Trump Agenda

10 a.m. at Shemanski Park

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Friday, Jan. 20

Resist Trump!

3 p.m. at Thomas Paine Plaza

Tennessee

Nashville

Friday, Jan. 20

Silent Inauguration

12 p.m. at Centennial Park Band Shell

Texas

Austin

Friday, Jan. 20

One Resistance, Austin

5 p.m. at Auditorium Shores

Saturday, Jan. 21

Boundless Across Borders

12 p.m. at Armijo Par

Dallas

Friday, Jan. 20

#J20 Anti-Trump March

3 p.m. at Lake Cliff Park

Saturday, Jan. 21

Womens Rally and Mega Phone Bank

10 a.m. at CWA Local 6215

Virginia

Fredericksburg

Sunday, Jan. 15

Silent Inauguration

12 p.m. at Hurkamp Park

Washington

Seattle

Friday, Jan. 20

Resist Trump: Occupy Inauguration

5 p.m. at Westlake Park

Washington, D.C.

Saturday, Jan. 14

Black Is Back Self-Determination Rally

12 p.m. at Howard University Blackburn Center Events

Sunday, Jan. 15

We Shall Not Be Moved March

9 a.m. at National Sylvan Theater

Thursday, Jan. 19

Non-Violent Protest

2 p.m. at Franklin Square Park (through Sunday, Jan. 22)

Peace Ball With CODEPINK

8 p.m. at National Museum of African American History and Culture

Friday, Jan. 20

#NotMyPresident

12 a.m. at the U.S. Capitol Building

#InaugurateTheResistance

7 a.m. at Freedom Plaza

March on the Inauguration

10 a.m. Malcolm X Park

Rally for Humanity

10 a.m. at Martin Luther King National Memorial

Saturday, Jan. 21

Petition To End Politics Of Division

10 a.m. at World War II Memorial

Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Friday, Jan. 20

March to Kick Off 100 Days of Resistance

5 p.m. at Red Arrow Park

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A protester gestures near the Trump Tower in New York City, where President-elect Donald Trump is holding meetings, on Nov. 14, 2016.

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