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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 Taking Root :|bThe Vision of Environmentalist Wangari 
       Maathai.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2016. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 minutes)
       :|bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
344    digital 
347    video file|bMPEG-4|bFlash 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by New Day Films in 2008. 
520    Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the 
       inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and 
       its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist 
       and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The 
       U.S.- educated Professor Maathai discovered her life's 
       work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she 
       had grown up. Their lives had become intolerable: they 
       were walking longer distances for firewood, clean water 
       was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their farms, 
       and their children were suffering from malnutrition. 
       Maathai thought to herself, "Well, why not plant trees?" 
       She soon discovered that tree planting had a ripple effect
       of empowering change. Countering the devastating cultural 
       effects of colonialism, Maathai began teaching communities
       about self-knowledge as a path to change and community 
       action. The women worked successively against 
       deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic 
       interests, and violent political oppression. They became a
       national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's
       24-year dictatorship. Through TV footage and chilling 
       first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic 
       confrontations of the 1980s and '90s as the women of the 
       Green Belt Movement confront human rights abuses and 
       environmental degradation. Cinema verité footage of the 
       tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them 
       brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to
       improve their own lives on their terms. Taking Root 
       captures a world-view in which nothing is perceived as 
       impossible and presents an awe-inspiring profile of 
       Maathai's unstoppable and courageous thirty-year journey 
       to protect the environment, defend human rights, and 
       promote democracy. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Maathai, Wangari. 
650  0 Tree planters (Persons)|zKenya. 
650  0 Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya). 
650  0 Women conservationists|zKenya. 
650  0 Women politicians|zKenya. 
650  0 Nobel Prize winners|zKenya. 
650  0 Nobel Prize winners. 
650  0 Tree planters (Persons). 
650  0 Women conservationists. 
650  0 Women politicians. 
651  0 Kenya. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Merton, Lisa,|efilm director|eproducer. 
700 1  Dater, Alan,|efilm director|eproducer. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
856 40 |uhttps://naperville.kanopy.com/node/216520|Available on 
       Kanopy 
856 42 |zCover Image|uhttps://www.kanopy.com/node/216520/external
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