Dispatches from the Front-lines of the Tar Sands to Renewables
Indigenous Environmental Network
Women of the Land Speak:
Dispatches from the Front-lines of the Tar Sands to Renewables
- February 17, 2013 7pm – 10 pm
- Speakers from 7 to 9pm, networking from 9 to 10pm
- Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street NW, Washington D.C.
- This event is part of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus (WECC) Delegation to Washington D.C.
Women
are joining in solidarity to speak out against the tar sands that not
only threaten their communities but the very future of all life, as we
know it. NASA scientist, Dr. James Hansen states that if the tar sands
project goes forward it will be “essentially game over for the climate.”
But, we can take a stand to accelerate the transition to a clean, safe
and sustainable energy economy by stopping the expansion of the tar
sands. We can stand up for the rights of our communities and nature.
Solutions exist — now we need the collective and political will to
implement them.
Join
us for an extraordinary evening with women leaders speaking out against
the tar sands and its violation of their lands and communities, and
hear about implementation of clean-energy solutions.
With special closing comments after the panel from:
Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth (Anishinaabe) and
an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of
Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural
economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the
lands and life ways of Native communities.
Panelists include:
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
is Lubicon Cree from Northern Alberta. She has been working as an
advocate for Indigenous rights for the past 10 years. She has worked
with organizations like Redwire Native Media Society and Indigenous
Media Arts Society. She has joined Greenpeace as a tar sands climate
& energy campaigner and works with the Indigenous Environmental
Network.
Crystal Lameman
is a Beaver Lake Cree Nation activist and Sierra Club and Indigenous
Environmental Network Alberta Tar Sands Campaigner. Crystal is committed
to restore Indigenous Treaty rights and stopping the exploitation of
the tar sands.
Eleanor Fairchild
is a 78-year-old farmer from eastern Texas who is working to defend her
land against the Keystone XL pipeline. Eleanor is a great-grandmother
who was arrested for “trespassing” on her own farm.
Julia Trigg Crawford
is the Farm Manager of her family’s 650 acre working farm in far
northeast Texas that stands directly in the path of TransCanada’s
controversial Gulf Coast Pipeline Project. She and her family stand
steadfast and united in the protection of their property rights, the
preservation of the environment, and are currently in courts challenging
TransCanada’s condemnation of their land.
Angelina M. Galiteva is
Founder of the Renewables 100 Policy Institute and was appointed in
2011 by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Independent Systems
Operator Board (CAISO). She also serves as a Chairperson of the World
Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and as Chair of the Renewable Energy
Working Group at the Business for Environment (B4E) summits.
Osprey Orielle Lake
(moderator) is Founder and President of the Women’s Earth and Climate
Caucus where she is working with grassroots leaders, policy-makers,
business people, and scientists to promote resilient communities and
foster a post-carbon energy future by addressing systemic change. She is
also Co-Chair of International Advocacy for the Global Alliance for the
Rights of Nature.
Direct inquiries for the Feb. 17th event to Wyolah Garden wgarden@ix.netcom.com
Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus Delegation EPA Meeting
The
WECC Women of the Land Delegates will meet with EPA February 19, 2013.
Please direct inquiries to Janet MacGillivray Wallace, Esq. 415 990 3806
who is heading up the meeting.
The WECC Delegation includes the speakers listed above and the following leaders:
Janet MacGillivray Wallace,
J.D., LL.M., is an environmental attorney and social change activist.
Formerly with EPA and noted environmental and environmental health
organizations, Janet, of Creek heritage, works in burdened communities
where Mother Earth’s fossil fuel resources are extracted and consumed
globally by industrial corporations as raw materials for energy. Janet
has dedicated her work to stopping the tar sands based Keystone XL
Pipeline, first with Texas landowners and now as Founder/Director of the
Fossil Fuel Resistance and Clean Energy Project affiliated with the
Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus. She blogs on issues of corporate
imperialism, subsidized fossil fuel industry, Indigenous Rights and the
Rights of Nature.
Kandi Mossett
(Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara) is Native Energy & Climate Campaign
Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.. She works primarily
at the grassroots level bridging generational gaps in tribal
communities while connecting the local to the national and the national
to the international in an effort to raise awareness about
sustainability and continue the fight towards just climate and energy
solutions for all.
Claire Greensfelder is
a peace and safe energy activist, educator, political campaigner, and
occasional journalist focusing on climate change since 2006. She is
currently a Consultant to the International Women’s Earth and Climate
Initiative (IWECI) for their September 2013 Global 100 Women Summit and
to the multi-media exhibit: Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous
Voices on Climate Change – most recently seen at the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of the American Indian.
Presented by: Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus (WECC) in partnership with Indigenous Environmental Network and 350.org
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