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'Overload: America's Toxic Love Story' Virtual Screening + Discussion

Soozie Eastman/2019/68 min/Health & the Environment, People & Culture

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Soozie Eastman learns that hundreds of synthetic toxins are now found in every baby born in America and the government and chemical corporations are doing little to protect citizens and consumers. With guidance from world-renowned physicians and environmental leaders, interviews with scientists and politicians, and stories of everyday Americans, Soozie uncovers how we got to be so overloaded with chemicals and if there is anything we can do to take control of our exposure.

Key Program Participant:

  • Discussion Facilitator: Alvin Walker, Property Team + Garden Lead-Windsor Park Lutheran Church

Resource Panelists:

  • Dr. Susan Buchanan, Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (Panelist + Action Partner)

  • Kate Jakubas, Founder & COO, Meliora Cleaning Products (Panelist + Action Partner)

  • Additional Action Partners: Go Green Wilmette (Beth Drucker), Green Home Doula/Women's Voices for the Earth (Erin Hersher)

Co-sponsored by Wilmette Theatre, Wilmette.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.