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By WINONA LADUKE

This Earth Day, let's quit being extremists.

That's what the U.S. economy relies on right now, and that's how the huge mineral and fossil fuel companies are making their money: extremism.

When they peel off layers of the Earth for oil and make poisonous tar sands, they are acting like extremists.
And when they crack and contaminate aquifers for natural gas, a process known as fracking, they are acting like extremists.

And when they blow off the top of a mountain for coal, or maybe just put an oil well in a pristine ecosystem and drill 20,000 feet down into the depths of our ocean, they are acting like extremists.

It is arrogant, and it is wrong.

And often, American Indians pay the price. Read more...

Please distribute these resources and links widely. These links are all focused on the many concerns, actions, and impacts Native and First Nations have been raising in the push against tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline.

Talking Points:

*The Keystone XL tarsands oil pipeline will cross the drinking water pipeline of the Lakota Nation. The Lakota Nation tribe passed legislation opposing KXL and called upon every Lakota people to defend the water. In the words of one member of the Lakota Nation: "We will defend the water. The federal government, Transcanada or whoever will defend the Keystone is going to have to put us in jail, or kill us."
*The Oglala Sioux have passed a resolution through their tribal government to stop Keystone XL from entering their Treaty Territory Read more...

Aaniin,
Our relatives in Canada, and around the world, need our voices in the coming days as the fate of the Keystone Xl Pipeline is set to be discussed by the US Senate on Tuesday. The vote will be close. ALL of our voices are needed to call on your Senators to oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Tar Sands are destroying the homelands, and poisoning the communities of our Cree relatives, and contributing to global warming. Those Red Lakers have been camping on top of a Tar Sands Pipeline that illegally crosses their territory for over a week now. We need to tell these senators to LISTEN to us. While the final decision is still in the hands of the State Dept and White House, we need our representatives to put the pressure on, and fairly advocate for us. Read more...

By DAVID BORNSTEIN
From The New York Times
March 6th, 2013
If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global warming, how might you go about it? For years, the main approach in the environmental movement has been to sound the alarm bell and implore people to consume less, switch to green products, recycle, and speak up to companies and politicians. It hasn’t always been an easy sell. However, if the approach of a promising Oakland-based start-up takes hold, there may be another line of action that could become available to ordinary people: directly financing renewable energy. Read more...

by Winona LaDuke

“Yesterday, the devil came here,…Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today…” Mr. Chavez said, in 2006 comments at the United Nations. Then Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if in prayer and glanced toward the ceiling.
That is perhaps one reason that Hugo Chavez was disliked by the US government. To Chavez , the Devil was George Bush. That’s what you get to say, when you are a third world leader who supplies maybe a million gallons of crude oil to an oil addicted country every day. You get to say anything you want.
I was a great admirer of Hugo Chavez, thankful for his generosity, his courage, his leadership, and his commitment to Indigenous peoples. Read more...

Fall 2012 Honor the Earth Grant Awards

Honor the Earth is pleased to announce these grants being given to thirty-
nine well-deserving organizations; $136,000 is being re-granted this year.
Many great projects out there being done by these organizations, such as
fighting the environmental destruction of the Canadian tar sands, resistance to the pipelines running across Canada and the United States, community run gardens, the protection of sacred water against a mining corporation development right beside a sacred site, reclaiming salmon to restore the sacred balance of water, healing land restoration and more.

Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites (APOSS)
Location: Northern California, Pitt River and Wintu Nations territory Read more...

ACTIVIST TRAINING - March 8, 2013 8pm - March 10, 2013, 3pm - Location to be announced - Manderson, South Dakota/Oglala Lakota Nation
Sponsored by Owe Aku & many allies
* Treaty Rights
* Human Rights
* Strategy Design
* Advocacy Tools
*Community Organizing
* Social Media
* Street Medic
* and much, much more... Read more...

By Winona LaDuke
February 13,2013

“ A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its’ women are on the ground…”
Cheyenne proverb Read more...

Gashkadino-Giizis,23, 2012

Dear Friend,

This past month, I have traveled across Indian Country, meeting with people from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming to the village of Crownpoint, on the Navajo reservation. I have spoken with young mothers from the Athabascan basin of Alberta, who want water which is not poisoned. And I have journeyed to one of our most sacred sites -- Eagle Rock, in the heart of Anishinaabe territory. Our people are courageous, and our people need your support.

What I know is this: If you do not fight, you will have no chance to protect our Mother Earth. And, if we do not begin to adapt to the change in our climate, we will be hungry ten years from now.

Honor the Earth needs your help to continue this work. Read more...