Join us on Earth Day 2025 for a virtual documentary film screening and discussion on “Power in the Desert”
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
4pm - 5:30 pm PDT
On Zoom
RSVP for the virtual film screening: https://bit.ly/power-in-the-desert
Power in the Desert is a documentary that lifts up voices from communities impacted by new lithium developments in Argentina, Chile, and California, highlighting some of the dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities in this moment. This virtual event will be the first public release of the full 55-minute documentary.
Presenters include:
Emiliano Rodriguez Neusch, Film Director/Producer
Chris Benner, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz
Manuel Pastor, Director of the Equity Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Southern California
The Lithium story is not just confined to Imperial Valley. For the last year, book co-authors, Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, have been collaborating with Argentine filmmaker and documentarian Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch to create a dialogue between the experience of Lithium Valley in California and the so-called “Lithium Triangle” in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. Their conclusion: the future of these regions may be uncertain but the communities there that have too often been left behind and kept behind are linked in their concerns for people and the planet.