On August 19, 2020, the Environmental Justice HistoryLab released a 32-minute documentary film, Environmental Action for Survival: Celebrating the Organizers of the 1970 Teach-In on the Environment and 50 Years of Environmental Activism. 

Researched and produced by Matthew Woodbury, this documentary is a sequel to The ENACT Teach-In of 1970 and is based on interviews conducted with seven of the organizers of the ENACT Teach-In on the Environment during the 50th anniversary commemoration held in March 2020.  Watch the new documentary on our YouTube channel here and learn more about the project here.

Featuring Barbara Reid Alexander, David Allan, George Coling, Elizabeth Grant Kingwill, Arthur Hanson, John Russell, and Doug Scott.

On April 17, 2020, the Environmental Justice HistoryLab released a 22-minute documentary film, The Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT) Teach-In of 1970.  Dr. Matthew Woodbury led the production team of eight undergraduates who created the documentary during the Winter 2020 semester in the course “Historical Filmmaking: Environmental Activism at U-M.”  The undergraduate filmmakers are Erin Arsenault, Rachael Fotis, Seeta Goyal, Jake Hutnik, Vikram Mohan, Kevin Rubba, Jana Shemano, and Preston Vanalstine.

Watch The Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT) Teach-In of 1970 on the Environmental Justice HistoryLab’s YouTube channel here.

Learn more about the production team and the History course that created this documentary here.