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Race to Save the World, The

[Available April 22 virtually at theaters and climate organizations through the theracetosavetheworld.com website.] Joe Gantz's compelling, engaging, inspirational, slow-paced, 102-minute documentary that focuses primarily on an eclectic group of climate change protestors and activists, including ambitious 17-year-old Black high school student Aji who is fighting for clean air by protesting and filing a lawsuit and lives with his mother Helena and 12-year-old brother Adonis in Washington, North Dakota schoolteacher Michael Forester arrested for interfering with the operation of five pipelines, passionate housewife Abigail standing trial for blocking oil trains on the railway and is supported by her husband Roger and teenage daughter Sienna, and doggedly determined 71-year-old retired therapist Miriam who walked from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. to bring attention to global warming, and the motivation and price they pay for their civil disobedience actions and includes commentary by other activists such as psychologist Michael, organizer Bill, college student Michael Z., protestors Mark and Sean, and journalist Mark Hertsgaard.
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