!Winona Laduke! speaking in Chattanooga! -= A N N O U N C E M E N T ! =- pass it on! the Organization of Native Americans at TVA (ONA-TVA) invites the Native American and larger community to ONA's Native American Celebration Tuesday, November 17, 1998, in Chattanooga at the TVA main building, MRBN201, Auditorium at 11:30 EST We hope to see you ALL there! it will be simulcast in Knoxville TN and Muscle Shoals AL. The featured speaker will be WINONA LADUKE of the White Earth Land Recovery Project and Indigenous Women's Network! Laduke is a long time enviromentalist and indigenous rights activist, representative in a number of United Nations, as well as congressional forums, program director of the Seventh Generation Fund's enviromental program, native american grant-making and advocacy organization; and was US Vice Presidential candidate with Ralph Nader in 1996. Everyone's invited!! the "Save Little Cedar Mountain" movement couldn't have invited a better speaker ourselves!! ;> [The MoJo Wire / mother_jones] Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke by Jay Walljasper In 1982, after graduating from Harvard with a degree in native economic development, Winona LaDuke packed her bags and moved to White Earth, the ancestral lands of the Anishinabeg (Ojibwe) people, located in a poor rural county of northern Minnesota. "The thing about being an Indian person," explains LaDuke, who grew up on the West Coast with her Anishinabekwe father and Jewish mother, "is that you feel most at home with your own people." LaDuke took a job as principal of the local reservation high school, but quickly found herself involved with a lawsuit to recover lands promised to the Anishinabeg people by an 1867 federal treaty. When the case was dismissed four years later, she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to continue efforts to regain lost lands. Over 90 percent of the original 837,000 acres are in the hands of non-Indians. Using grants and a $20,000 human rights prize from Reebok, the group so far has bought back 1,000 acres and hopes to acquire 30,000 more in the next 15 years. Still, LaDuke, 36, has encountered local resistance. When people from the Land Recovery Project recently blockaded a lumber truck used in clear-cutting, the tribal council let the driver use reservation roads to get out. Although the tribal chairman and two other tribal officials are now facing 44 separate federal indictments for election fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement, and bribery, LaDuke doesn't ignore them. "I need to deal with them because it affects other people where I live." It's the same with the power structure in any community, she says. "You've got to take them on and change them. You've also got to build an alternative to show people." What keeps her going, in part, is the intergenerational nature of Native American organizing. "We tell our stories to the children. It's incumbent on us to offer oral history because no one else will," says LaDuke, the mother of two. "We make sure the kids are part of everything. In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50." Traditional Anishinabekwe religion is LaDuke's other source of power and sustenance. "Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work. In many of the progressive movements in this country, religion carries a lot of baggage. But I think that's changing. You can't dismiss the significance of Eastern religions, earth-based religions, and Western religions on political work today. What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time." Winona Laduke is of the Ahnishinabe tribe of Native American Indians. She shared in a Seeds of Change interview: "I live on the White Earth reservation. I work mostly on the land. In our language, most nouns are animate, whether it is the word for corn, for wild rice, min-o-min, or stone. Having spirit and standing on its own, I'm very careful when I harvest it because I must reckon with that spirit. In our culture, it is because you are respectful when you harvest is how you ensure that you are able to continue harvesting. It is not because you're smart or clever, it's because you're respectful and you are worthy of receiving. In our culture, before rice, I offer ah-say-mah, tobacco, to that plant or that rice. Min-o-min was given to us by our Creator." Winona Laduke of the Indigenous Women's Network in the United States made a passionate plea for us all to honour Natural Laws, which exist beyond man-made laws. She added that women are the manifestations of the Mother Earth in Human form and that Mother Earth produces all that sustain life. Let us remember as we abuse the Earth, are abusing all its peoples. ### >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 11 06:31:58 1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:30:06 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Environment & Depression/reply(Angela) In a message dated 98-11-10 06:56:42 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Try contacting the WEED foundation >> Thanks for the suggestion Angela; will do...Peace Lisa >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 11 07:08:06 1998 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:06:00 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sterilization of Women (long) This is the type of post which initially drew me to Ecofem; why I came back after going off the list; why I stay now through all the christianity/meme/goddess posts. Could we please, please have more of this kind of information and discussion?! Thank you. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 11 07:46:43 1998 From: "Kimberly & Brett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: *Fishy * Emissions Cuts * Boss Hog Denied* Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:45:14 -0600 ---------- > From: News from Environmental Defense Fund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: *Fishy * Emissions Cuts * Boss Hog Denied* > Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 4:32 PM > > EDF DISPATCH: From Environmental Defense Fund > * Something Fishy * Emissions Cuts * Boss Hog Denied * > Tuesday, November 10, 1998 > More than 300,000 strong > > 1. EDF Works to Curb Worldwide Overfishing > 2. British Petroleum Pledges to Cut Own Emissions > 3. New Rules for Hog Factory Farms Pass in Colorado > 4. California Voters Say �No� to Poor Traffic Solution > 5. Working to Save Open Space on Manhattan's Hudson > 6. Tally Migrating Hawks From a Catskill Promontory > 7. Last Chance to Enter: Win the House Recycling Built > 8. (To stop receiving this e-mail publication, please > send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with SIGNOFF * > in the body, not the subject, of the message.) > > > ****************************** > 1. GROWING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT OCEAN LIFE IS IN DANGER > > The evidence continues to mount that global fisheries are in > trouble. EDF is working to curb overfishing, seen as one of the > main causes of this worldwide decline. > > http://www.edf.org/programs/Oceans/overfishing.html > > ****************************** > 2. INDUSTRY LEADER TAKES FIRST STEPS AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING > > Under a plan EDF helped develop, British Petroleum (BP) became > the first major oil company to commit to reducing its own > greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement makes BP one of the > first industry leaders to acknowledge the threat of global > warming. > > http://www.edf.org/pubs/EDF-Letter/1998/Nov/a_BP.html > > ****************************** > 3. BALLOTING IN COLORADO KEEPS HOG FARMS UNDER CONTROL > > Urged by EDF and others, voters in Colorado passed Amendment 14, > creating new rules for hog factory farms. Waste from the huge > farms has been creating serious environmental problems in the > state. > > http://www.edf.org/pubs/NewsReleases/1998/Nov/b_colorado.html > > ****************************** > 4. BALLOT MEASURE C DEFEATED IN SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA > > After a hard campaign by EDF and others, California voters > defeated a measure in Sonoma County that would have instituted a > sales tax to pay for flawed transportation measures. > > http://www.edf.org/pubs/NewsReleases/1998/Nov/a_sonomatax.html > ***************************** > 5. EDF HELPS BRING THE HUDSON RIVER CLOSER TO NEW YORKERS > > The Hudson River may soon be accessible from Manhattan's western > shore thanks to support from 35 organizations that make up the > Hudson River Park Alliance. The group won approval this summer > for a park, offering bike paths and beach access, along the > valuable strip of land. > > http://www.edf.org/pubs/EDF-Letter/1998/Nov/e_Hudson.html > > ****************************** > 6. NATURE WRITER SOARS WITH MIGRATING HAWKS > > Get a feel for fall with "Bird Up," a first-person account of > watching raptors migrate through the Catskill Mountains. The > article is featured in EDF's 'Nature Writer' series, where you > are invited to explore your human connection to the wilderness. > > http://www.edf.org/NatureWriter/BirdUp/ > > ****************************** > 7. ENTER OUR 'FREE HOUSE' DRAWING BY THE 20TH OF THIS MONTH > > In conjunction with this year's America Recycles Day on November > 15th, the American Green Dream House will be given away free to > some lucky contestant - maybe you! Sign up for this $200,000 > prize and find out how America recycles. > > http://www.edf.org/cgi-bin/dream_house1.pl > > ****************************** > 8. 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All rights reserved. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 11 08:16:27 1998 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:14:49 -0500 (EST) From: Bertina Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: white goddess / Christian nemesis In-Reply-To: <v01530507b26d7fa62f54@[130.216.8.235]> I for one would actually for once like to see a pagan proselytise to Christians--any takers? Surely the Wiccans on the list would like to begin? How does one go about presenting Armagedden? Atheism is sounding more and more appealing to me! Bertina [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Chris King wrote: > Dear Angela and Ecofem, > > I agree with Aedrienne: > > >"do us all a favor & stop proseltizing & preaching to us cause I for one > am sick of reading all your arguments about why we are wrong when to what I'm > seeing of your comments I can tell you aren't listening to a word of what we > are saying" > > I have been intrigued the way I offered Angela her spiritual liberation and > ever since she has been trying non-stop to convert ecofem to Catholicism. > This makes for a wry question. Does liberation include the freedom to > slavishly follow religious fallacy of the imposed order? > > The only way I can see we can really complete Angela's awakening is to > perform the apocalypse together in her presence so she can see the old > order actually culminated before her very eyes. > > This is going to take a little time and some catalytic inspiration between > all of us ... I'll send you all shortly a first step - the invitation to > catalysis of Wisdom Earth Democracy. > > love, Chris. > > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818 > Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457 > University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Private Bag 92019 > AUCKLAND, New Zealand. > > http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm > "Genesis of Eden" - Alta Vista Search > > >
