A special Ocean Night fundraiser for the Golden Rule Peace Boat Project, Veterans for Peace's project to restore the original nuclear protest boat.

 

Featured film is Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1, a heartbreaking and intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for dignity and survival after decades of intentional radiation poisoning at the hands of the American government.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G Street.

 

Adam Jonas Horowitz shot his first film in the Marshall Islands in 1986, and was shocked by what he found there, in this former American military colony in middle of the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive coconuts, leaking nuclear waste repositories, and densely populated slums were all the direct result of 67 Cold War U.S. nuclear bomb tests that vaporized islands and devastated entire populations. Twenty years later, Adam returned to these islands to make this award winning shocking political and cultural documentary exposé titled 'Nuclear Savage.'

 

Ocean Night is a monthly, all-ages event sponsored by Surfrider Humboldt, Northcoast Environmental Center, and Humboldt Baykeeper. $3-5 dollar donation, free for kids. Don't forget to get raffle tickets at the door!