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You're invited to a Benefit for Honor the Earth - featuring Amy Ray and Winona LaDuke
You're invited to a special Honor the Earth Benefit
Featuring an acoustic performance by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and other surprise guests along with an interactive discussion with Winona LaDuke & Amy Ray about the challenges and opportunities surrounding Native environmental initiatives in 2012. Read more...
1 attachment:Honor's New Contact Info - Offices Consolidated to White Earth Reservation
Honor the Earth is excited to announce changes to our overall organizational structure and the consolidation of our offices. We will maintain our space in northern Minnesota on the White Earth reservation. Historically, we have also held an office in Minneapolis, but due to recent changes we are working solely out of our northern office.
Contact Info:
Honor the Earth
PO Box 67
Callaway, MN 56521
Phone: 218-375-3200 Read more...
The Pipeline for the One Percent
BY WINONA LADUKE (Indian Country Today)
November 13, 2011
President Obama’s pause on the Keystone Pipeline is a victory for the environment, for sure. It is also a victory for the American people. As it turns out, once the advertising, and lobbying dollars are kept in check, the Keystone pipeline appears as it should: as a sham, a money making scheme for oil and pipeline companies, not the Good Fairy for the American economy.
Occupy Wall Street has been called a movement lacking a mission, a circus of people who don’t understand economics and are simply disgruntled at being have-nots. If OWS were looking for a perfect mission, it would be defeating Keystone XL or the pipeline for the one percent. Read more...
Occupy Minnesota- Some Good Questions about Greed and Accountability.
By Winona LaDuke
October 2011 Read more...
Some Victories, but Also 2 Steps Back
By Nellis Kennedy-Howard (NAVAJO TIMES)
November 2, 2011
With only two months left of 2011, let's take a look back at the year's regional victories. The EPA has finally completed the long awaited and overdue plan for cleanup at the northeast Church Rock Uranium Mine site. The Crownpoint Chapter House has made momentous history by becoming the first solar-powered chapter house in the nation. And New Mexico has upheld the most stringent carbon cap in the nation. However, there is still much work to be done. For many of these "victory steps" we've taken, we have also taken two steps back. Read more...
In Memory of Our Dear Friend & Co-Worker, Leslie Walking Elk
It is with a very heavy heart and deep sadness that we learned of the passing of our dear friend & staff member, Leslie Walking Elk. Leslie was Winona’s adopted sister. Her loss was unexpected and we are pulling together for support during this difficult time.
For years, Leslie has been an educator and a long-time ally for Honor the Earth. Most recently, Leslie had been working as an Administrative Assistant in our Minneapolis office. A member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin and a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota, Leslie took great pride in her community and was a proud advocate for Native rights. She had a witty sense of humor and a great love for her people. This is a sad loss for the Native community and she will be dearly missed. Read more...
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE - MILITARIZATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY
Latest LaDuke book examines the impacts of the federal military on Native American lands
Contact: Dawn Newbrough
Tel. 612-879-7529
Email: dawn@honorearth.org
LaDuke (with Co-Author, Sean Cruz) writes the Militarization of Indian Country by taking a very specific look at the impact the U.S. military has had on Indian Country. In doing so, LaDuke carefully examines how the military has affected Native people, Native economies, and the Native lands. From military use of Native names to outright poisoning of Native peoples for military testing, the U.S. military’s impact on Indian Country is unparalleled. Together, LaDuke & Cruz take an honest look at what impact the military has had on Native peoples since early colonization. Read more...
Winona LaDuke Asks Us to Re-imagine the Economy
By MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD (The Progressive)
October 10, 2011
Native American activist and environmentalist Winona LaDuke says it’s crucial that we ask ourselves, “What is an economy? And who gets to determine it?”
She says we should have an economy that is divorced from empire, that respects the environment, and that is based on local needs.
LaDuke, who ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader in 2000, is the executive director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project of the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
She was the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice on Sunday. Read more...
Nellis Kennedy-Howard: Speak up about Keystone XL Pipeline
By NELLIS KENNEDY-HOWARD
Indianz.com (October 3, 2011)
Today, President Obama has the choice. Clean technology is at our feet. Sustainable resources are in our hands. And, here we sit in the past digging for oil. The State Department is currently reviewing a proposal to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a pipeline that will extend 2,000 miles across America and to the Gulf of Mexico. Crossing over 70 rivers and streams, the pipeline will also cross critical water sources such as the Ogallala Aquifer. The pipeline is scheduled for review by the Obama administration with a congressional deadline demanding a decision by the end of 2011. Read more...
Winona LaDuke On Redemption
For Video, please click http://edmortimer.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/winona-laduke-on-redemption/
Posted 26 September 2011, by Sacred Land Film Project, Vimeo, vimeo.com
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe activist) speaks on the process of apology, redemption and healing; through the story of the Pawnee tribe and their return home to their native land in Nebraska.
This interview bite was conducted as part of the Sacred Land Film Project series, featuring indigenous communities fighting to save their sacred sites.
Learn more at sacredland.org
Regranting Fall Deadline!
Now announcing our Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities grantmaking Fall deadline! All applications must be submitted by October 17th. For details, please see http://www.honorearth.org/grantmaking/guidelines
Prevent a Tar Sands Disaster
August 19, 2011 (YES! Magazine)
BY NELLIS KENNEDY-HOWARD
Why developing the tarsands has been called "world's most destructive project."
What does it mean to live in an energy sacrifice zone? For many First Nations of Canada, it means that the land and water your families have lived on for generations is no longer safe. Nearly every major oil company in the world is participating in making the homelands of indigenous peoples unsafe by investing in the Athabascan tar sands. Read more...
National Congress of American Indians Opposes Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
August 18, 2011 (NRDC Switchboard)
BY DANIELLE DROITSCH
Today, the nation’s oldest and largest national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), announced their opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This important announcement adds to the growing chorus of voices across the United States opposed to this pipeline and clearly finds that an additional tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest.
The NCAI resolution firmly states how Keystone XL is not in the national interest: Read more...
Catching the Wind Known As Winona
BY GEORGIANNE NIENABER (Her Voice Magazine, Fall 2011) Read more...
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BY GEORGIANNE NIENABER
Her Voice Magazine (Fall 2011) Read more...
Video Highlights from Winona LaDuke and Stewart Brand Debate
On July 21st, Honor's Executive Director, Winona LaDuke, debated Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog and more recently known for asking environmentalists to reconsider opposing nuclear power and GMOs. The event was hosted by Earth Island Journal in Berkeley, CA, below are some video highlights of the event. Read more...
Radio Interview with Winona: What's the history between the US military and American Indians?
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011
What's the historical relationship between the US military and American Indians? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Winona LaDuke, author of The Militarization of Indian Country. She writes, "Native people have seen their way of life destroyed by the military." It began with colonization and continues with military testing on native lands and using words like Apache and Blackhawk to name military equipment. Interview by Rose Aguilar.
To listen, please visit http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/27043/v0001/kalw.download.akamai.com/27043/Yo...
Guests: Read more...
Fix or Nix: The Environment & Technology
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE and HONOR THE EARTH invite you to attend…
Mark Hertsgaard in Conversation with Stewart Brand and Winona LaDuke
How can technology best be used to foster environmental sustainability? Journalist Mark Hertsgaard – the environment correspondent for The Nation and author of the recent book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth – will raise that question and others at what promises to be a provocative dialogue with two environmental thought leaders: Stewart Brand and Winona LaDuke. Read more...
