Sierra Club Chronicles

Muckraking filmmaker Robert Greenwald generated a big buzz in 2005 with his documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” which attracted hundreds of thousands of Americans to home screenings around the country. Greenwald’s newest endeavor, Sierra Club Chronicles, launches January 12 on Link TV at 8:30 PM Eastern and Pacific, running monthly through July. The week before the debut episode, Greenwald spoke with the Sierra Club about the role of film in creating social change, and his hopes for Sierra Club Chronicles. You can read that interview at http://www.sierraclub.org/tv/greenwald.

Produced by Greenwald’s Brave New Films in association with Sierra Club Productions, the seven 30-minute segments of Sierra Club Chronicles capture the efforts of ordinary Americans fighting to protect their families, communities, and livelihoods from pollution, corporate greed, and short-sighted government policies. The episodes will run back-to-back with The ACLU Freedom Files, an original series from the American Civil Liberties Union and Brave New Films.

The first episode of Sierra Club Chronicles, “9/11 Forgotten Heroes,” focuses on first responders to the 9/11 attacks who have suffered health problems stemming from hazards at Ground Zero that the government covered up and now refuses to compensate them for. Their stories speak for the many hundreds, perhaps thousands, who gave everything they had to the search and rescue effort, only to get short shrift from their own government.