CASPA/Urban Affairs & Planning and Government & International Affairs cordially invite you to a Free screening of TAR CREEK, an environmental justice documentary about the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma. A Q&A session with director Matt Myers will immediately follow the screening.
When: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ 7PM
Where: 1021 Prince Street, Room 305, Alexandria, VA
The event is open to the public, so please feel free to pass this announcement along to anyone interested. Refreshments and popcorn will be served.
For more information, please visit www.tarcreekfilm.com
TAR CREEK is the story of the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund site. Once one of the largest lead and zinc mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now home to more than 40 square miles of environmental devastation in northeastern Oklahoma: acid mine water in the creeks, stratospheric lead poisoning in the children, and sinkholes that melt the heartland right out from under American backyards and ball fields.
Now, nearly thirty years after being named among the first—and most costly—sites designated for federal cleanup by the EPA under its “Superfund” program, Tar Creek residents still fight for measurable cleanup, tangible environmental justice, and ultimately, the buyout and relocation of their homes to safer ground. As TAR CREEK reveals, America’s Superfund sites aren’t just environmental wastelands. Breeding grounds for distrust, poverty, and corruption, they’re community tragedies, too. Until the community fights back.
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