Movie Night: The Island President

On Wednesday, June 27th, at 5:30pm, please join NETG in the Graduate Student Commons for the screening of the documentary The Island President and learn about the serious ramifications of rising sea levels on the Maldives Islands. 

Lou Malnati's pizza will be served at 5:30.  RSVP via this link or below for pizza!  The movie will run from 6 to 7:30.  Grads, undergrad, faculty, staff, and community are all welcome to attend!

"Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.

The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies—leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change."

The Graduate Student Commons is located at 2122 Sheridan Road, Room 250 (2nd floor).