FIGHT THE POWER: HOW BLOW UP A PIPELINE (2026) INCL. PANEL TALK

For this edition of Fight The Power: Films of Resistance, we’re screening Daniel Goldhaber’s incendiary 2022 climate thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline on June 25. Eight strangers converge on a stretch of West Texas oil infrastructure with a plan to sabotage it. Adapted from Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, the film transposes a polemic into a heist, and puts the question the mainstream climate movement has spent decades avoiding squarely on the table.

Screened in a year when the planet has crossed 1.5°C, when youth activists are being sentenced under terrorism statutes for blockading roads, and when “moderate” climate policy keeps locking in catastrophic warming, How to Blow Up a Pipeline forces an uncomfortable confrontation: at what point does property destruction become a legitimate political tool, and at what point does the refusal to consider it become its own form of complicity?

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on what kind of violence is justified, addressing the genealogy of climate sabotage from Earth First! through to Extinction Rebellion, the legal architecture now criminalising direct action across Europe, and the strategic question Malm’s book leaves open: whether nonviolence has done what it can, and what comes after.