Interlock Media goes on-location for historic treaty negotiations.
Director Jonathan Schwartz, “Fixer” Carla Diamond, and videographer Walter Hergt were in Paris for the dramatic last days of the climate treaty negotiations. In addition, they captured the grand finale, a massive victory celebration at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Reporting on impacts of global warming and human rights since the 1980s it is fitting that Interlock Media was able to participate in this historic occasion.
The team took a deep look as well at the alternative activist movements that converged on Paris in December, including direct action militants, non-violent protesters, indigenous leaders, and members of “Makers” collectives. The Makers represent some of the best and brightest young entrepreneurs and engineers in Europe and the States. They stoutly believe that the devices that they are making together, such as self-cleansing showers and a dollar a year water filters, can, if developed and shared in an open-source and collective , can reduce poverty and the carbon footprint, especially in the lesser developed world.
They in turn looked at the activities of their national statesmen at COP 21 with appreciation, compassion and yes, a measure of salty disagreement.
While Parisian politicians were garnering world praise for their pivotal role in creating a tangible outcome out of COP 21, local French farmers, environmentalists, and militant back-to-the land occupiers were continuing to fight government attempts to build a second international airport to serve as a gateway West of Paris.
The Interlock team joined them as they energetically demonstrated, far removed from the official goings on that made up COP 21. At the proposed airport site in Nanders, their fellows were staging a permanent occupation, living in hobbit style straw bale houses, occupying abandoned homes , even living in tree houses. Today, they were taking their mission to Stalingrad Plaza.
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