'We Are Medicine People'
Women of the World Speak on Climate Justice
"We are the medicine people," said Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa, Quechua in Bolivia, speaking on the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, among 125 women from 50 countries sharing knowledge and strength for six days.
"Diversity is the strength of our people, diversity is the strength of life."
Dr. Camacho said her people are alive today because their ancestors dreamed about their children, that they would be born with love for life, with dignity.
"Our ancestral traditional medicine is our strength, our historical resistance to colonization," she said.
"We are alive. We belong to Mother Earth." She said Mother Earth is the first healer, who gives us healthy food and healthy water. The greedy corporations come and destroy the land, water and murder their Guardians. Still, strength will be born again.
"Without healthy food, none of us will be healthy." She speaks of healthy food, without poisons, and working together for health.
This wisdom is not for those who come and take.
"We are alive, that is such a gift."
"We are the fire."
Dr. Camacho is director of Ancestral Traditional Medicine, in the Ministry of Health, Plurinational State of Bolivia. She is a Quechua midwife and promoter of respectful birth and ancestral midwifery, and member of the Red del Abya Yala de Comunicación Indígena.
Tara Houska: Putting Life on the Line
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Tara said she became involved in land defense work at Standing Rock, after being frustrated with the other avenue of change.
"I decided to put my body on the line."
Tara said she saw the power of grassroots in real time at Standing Rock, and progress is made as the people continue fighting against the greed.
Tara speaks of the resistance to Line 3 and Line 5 pipelines, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry and the defense of the water.
Tara Houska, Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe, Bear Clan, is a tribal attorney, founder of Giniw Collective, and spent six months on the frontlines fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. She is currently engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline.
Houma's Monique Verdin: From Cancer Alley to the Land of Plenty
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Monique is the co-producer of the award-winning documentary My Louisiana Love (2012). Monique is a member of the United Houma Nation Tribal Council; member of Another Gulf is Possible; and is director of The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange.
Every Person's Story
“Every person who is on the frontlines of the climate crisis – they deserve to tell their own story, because their story has lives to change," said Vanessa Nakate, director of the Tard Foundation in Uganda.
“Every person who is on the frontlines of the climate crisis – they deserve to tell their own story, because their story has lives to change," said Vanessa Nakate, director of the Tard Foundation in Uganda.
The Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice is organized by WECAN International.
Watch live today, 1 to 6 pm New York time, on WECAN's YouTube Channel
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