Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
April 18-20, 2008
Santa Fe, NM
WHO
The National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC), the New Mexico Tourism Department and the Jicarilla Apache Nation will take the global stage launching the inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival.
WHAT: An Indigenous environmental film festival representing nine countries and endorsed by UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations.
WHERE: Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Cinema Café, Center for Contemporary Arts, and NM Film Museum Theater.
WHEN: April 18-20, 2008
FILMS: Over 40 films from around the globe will be presented, their common theme being that they address the relationship between Indigenous communities and mother earth
SOME FEATURED FILMS INCLUDE:
The National Geographic All Roads Film Project will open and close the festival. Opening night, April 18 at 7:00p, will feature Actic Son. This Canadian/ U.S. documentary directed by Andrew Walton tells the story of Stanley Njootli Jr., who escapes a drug-fueled city life to join his father and his Gwitchin roots in the rugged Arctic , and embarks on a universal quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. On closing night, April 20 at 6:00p, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, a Chinese/ Tibetan film directed by Lu Chuan will be shown. Experience the unbelievable rugged and death-defying true story of Tibetan volunteers who battle the elements, poachers, and each other in their noble quest to save the Chiru antelope in the inhospitable mountains of Tibet . Both films will be screened at the Santa Fe Film Center at Cinema Café.
Oil on Ice is a vivid, compelling and comprehensive documentary connecting the fate of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to the decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation choices and other seemingly unrelated matters.
Uno deglie Utimi (One of the Last), Italy .
Last Yoik Saammi Forest, Finland.
Sacred Ground, South Australia .
Herdswoman, Sweden.
Shadow of the Salmon, Washington .
Islands at Risk-Genetic Engineering, Hawaii .
Yookkene, Alaska.
OTHER EVENTS
Tantoo Cardinal
At its first annual Global Green Indigenous Film Festival will be acclaimed actress Tantoo Cardinal. Widely acknowledged as being the most recognizable Aboriginal actress of our time, Ms. Cardinal is of Métis descent and was born in Alberta , Canada . She has appeared in over fifty films and television series, including "Dances with Wolves", "Legends of the Fall" and "Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman". Ms. Cardinal has been honored with numerous awards, among them the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Wind and Glacier Voices Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Rudy Martin Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Native American in Film, Toronto Women in Film and Television Outstanding Achievement Award, and the Harvard Film Archive Sun Hill Award for Excellence in Native American Filmmaking. Ms. Cardinal is also an activist and author.
Image of Hope is a photo contest initiative of Earth Care International, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to educate and empower youth to create a thriving, just and sustainable world. Youth ages 12 to 25 were invited to submit an original photo of an environmental problem, an original photo of an environmental solution and an artist statement. The first, second and third place winners of the Image of Hope contest will be announced at the Festival's opening night reception, and the top 10 entries will be exhibited at the Cinema Café for the duration of the Festival.
Youth Film Workshop
CCA Moving Images and Digital Lab1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NMSaturday, April 19, 2008, 8:00 am - 2 :00 pmThis NTEC-sponsored, interactive workshop is a challenge for youth to learn about the elements of making a film. It allows participants to actually write, shoot, and edit a film project under the mentorship of real world filmmakers in just 6 hours! There's no cost associated; however it's by pre-registration only - first come, first served. For more info visit http://www.yiyonline.org/ or contact Candice at 505.216.7681. Workshop Leader: Jeremiah Bitsui.
Panels
Going Green with Wind and SunNTEC's Panel Discussion Especially for the Environmentally-ConsciousHotel Santa Fe1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NMFriday, April 18, 2008, 10:00 am - 12:00 pmAn examination of tribal renewable energy programs, specifically large-scale wind and solar energy. Moderator: Jerry Pardilla, Executive Director, NTEC. Panelists: Bob Gough, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy; Chip Comins, Filmmaker; Jonny Stiffarm, Native Energy; Roger Fragua, Cota Holdings.Green Filmmaking, and Filming on Tribal LandsGGIFF's Panel Discussion Especially for Tribal LeadersNew Mexico Film Museum418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NMSaturday, April 19, 2008, 10:00 - 11:15 amWhat can the state government do to promote filmmaking for interested tribes, as well as assist with the protection of tribal lands through Green Filmmaking practices? What are the latest Green Filmmaking initiatives? Join us for an informational discussion with industry experts. Moderator: Tony Estrada, Wild Horse Films, Festival Director, GGIFF. Panelists: Lisa Strout, Director of the NM Film Office; Casey Haymes, NM Film Office; Sarah Cottrell, Energy & Environmental Policy Advisor.Speaking in Two Worlds: Exploring Indigenous Languages In FilmInstitute of American Indian Arts-CACS Auditorium83 A-Van-Nu-Po, Santa Fe, NM Saturday, April 19, 2008, 2:00 - 5:00 pmAcross the Native American cinemascape, the use of languages in film is reaching a wider audience. Hear from filmmakers who explore the oral tradition though filmic storytelling in different thought-provoking ideas and context. These filmmakers speak many voices, whether exploring their culture, or expressing personal stories, each film holds its own perspective. Join this special film and languages presentation hosted by the Institute of the American Indian Arts and the Indigenous Languages Institute in partnership with the Global Green Indigenous Film Festival. Moderator: Carlos Peinado, Director, New Media Arts, IAIA. Panelists: Jonathan Sims (Acoma); Cora McKenna (Nambé Tewa), Medina Swazo-Hinds (San Illdefonso); other GGIFF Filmmakers.
FOR MORE INFO
Visit http://www.ggiff.com/
or call 505-242-2175
April 14, 2008
April 13, 2008
Live from Greensburg, Kansas
LISTEN LIVE: THE LONGEST WALK 2 visits GREENSBURGBy Joni Tucker
GREENSBURG, Kansas -- Walkers will be spending that evening and the following day of the 14th touring Greensburg with GreenTown representative Alanna Goodman.
Some highlights will include dinner Sunday evening with Greensburg residents, meeting The Green Club high school students, viewing progress of 5-4-7 Art Center, and visiting with GreenTown Chairman Wylan Fleener.
For more information regarding The Longest Walk check out their website at http://www.blogger.com/ plus Northern Route information for photos and news articles at http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ and for the radio web cast at http://www.earthcycles.net/
http://www.547artscenter.org/
A SELF SUSTAINING COMMUNITY
House Representative Dennis McKinney will be here Monday morning to meet the walkers, as well as other city officials and guests. The walkers will take a tour of the town that day.
THE LONGEST WALK 2 visits WICHITA
Walkers arrive directly from Kingman to the Mid America All Indian Center for City events. DAY 1 - April 16 5 pm – 6:30
A SELF SUSTAINING COMMUNITY
House Representative Dennis McKinney will be here Monday morning to meet the walkers, as well as other city officials and guests. The walkers will take a tour of the town that day.
THE LONGEST WALK 2 visits WICHITA
Walkers arrive directly from Kingman to the Mid America All Indian Center for City events. DAY 1 - April 16 5 pm – 6:30
Meal and Forum 7 30 - 830 Gourd Dance and Intertribal Dance
DAY 2 - April 17
stay all day at retreat for open house- community meet/greet.
DAY 2 - April 17
stay all day at retreat for open house- community meet/greet.
Mid America All Indian Center
650 N Seneca, Wichita, KS
316-262-5221
Riverview Retreat Center
5225 N Sullivan, Wichita, KS
316-838-6230
Arizona Republic, Worst Headline of the Day
Don't be deceived by the Arizona Republic, coal mining means the death of the Navajo people and pocket change for Navajo politicians
By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
In the "Worst Headline of the Day" Department, Arizona Republic wins the prize for this one, "For Navajos, coal means survival."
This headline shows either the reporter's lack of knowledge, or the newspaper's agenda. The truth is that coal mines mean survival for tribal politicians who cut backdoor energy deals.
The revenues -- from coal mines, power plants and other destructive development destroying the sacred earth -- primarily pay the salaries and travel expenses for the 88-member Navajo Nation Council, Navajo President and staff and others in Window Rock.
Those travel expenses include Navajo Council committee meetings in Las Vegas during the National Indian Finals Rodeo and lavish hotels.
Who doesn't benefit? The Navajo people who live under the powerlines which take electricity to southern California. Most live without running water and electricity. Their children often study by lantern light at night without electricity.
Navajos live with the pollution and diseases of coal fired power plants, strewn radioactive unreclaimed uranium mine tailings and hundreds of spewing oil and gas wells. The air is dangerous to breathe in the area of the Navajos place of origin, Dinetah, in northern New Mexico.
News reporters who have never lived on the Navajo Nation with the people continue to publish these false news stories and glorify coal mining and promote the politicians who abuse their own people.
It is not only environmental racism, but racism of another type. It implies that the Navajo peoples only hope is destructive coal-fired power plants. These power plants not only poison the Navajo peoples own air, land and water, but the particles are also melting the Arctic ice and destroying the homelands of polar bear, walrus and other Arctic life. Power plants and tailpipe emmissions are the major causes of the melting Arcitc, according to scientists.
It is a win-win situation for Bush and his corporate friends, who profiteer from the power plants and are now rushing to claim the melting Northwest Passage to drill for oil and gas.
The deceptive news stories from Arizona Republic and other media benefit corporations like Sithe Global, owned primarily by Blackstone, one of the Bush family cronies and member of the Skull and Bones secret society based at Yale University.
Sithe is cutting the deal with Navajos for the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant, under protest by elderly Navajos on the land, at Dooda (NO) Desert Rock.
Skull and Bones seeks world domination through political power and financial dominion. The production of the first atomic bomb was controlled by members of this secret society, according to the research in "Secrets of the Tomb," by Alexandra Robbins.
Grandfather Prescott Bush dug up Geronimo's skull, according to Skull and Bones own log.
Then, Bush family members and a Skull and Bones attorney attempted to return a skull to a delegation from San Carlos Apache Tribal Council in the 1980s, but they rejected it, since it was the skull of a child, according to San Carlos Apache Raleigh Thompson who served on the council and was part of the delegation to New York.
Don't be deceived by the Arizona Republic and its claims that coal mines are the savior of the Navajo people.
Coal mines are the death of Navajo people and pocket change for Navajo politicians.
.
(Photo: San Juan Power Plant. The San Juan Power Plant and Four Corners Power Plant are the two existing power plants on Navajo Nation land in the Four Corners area near Farmington, NM. It is the same area where the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant would be built. The sacred place of Navajo origin, Dinetah, is also in this region. )
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By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
In the "Worst Headline of the Day" Department, Arizona Republic wins the prize for this one, "For Navajos, coal means survival."
This headline shows either the reporter's lack of knowledge, or the newspaper's agenda. The truth is that coal mines mean survival for tribal politicians who cut backdoor energy deals.
The revenues -- from coal mines, power plants and other destructive development destroying the sacred earth -- primarily pay the salaries and travel expenses for the 88-member Navajo Nation Council, Navajo President and staff and others in Window Rock.
Those travel expenses include Navajo Council committee meetings in Las Vegas during the National Indian Finals Rodeo and lavish hotels.
Who doesn't benefit? The Navajo people who live under the powerlines which take electricity to southern California. Most live without running water and electricity. Their children often study by lantern light at night without electricity.
Navajos live with the pollution and diseases of coal fired power plants, strewn radioactive unreclaimed uranium mine tailings and hundreds of spewing oil and gas wells. The air is dangerous to breathe in the area of the Navajos place of origin, Dinetah, in northern New Mexico.
News reporters who have never lived on the Navajo Nation with the people continue to publish these false news stories and glorify coal mining and promote the politicians who abuse their own people.
It is not only environmental racism, but racism of another type. It implies that the Navajo peoples only hope is destructive coal-fired power plants. These power plants not only poison the Navajo peoples own air, land and water, but the particles are also melting the Arctic ice and destroying the homelands of polar bear, walrus and other Arctic life. Power plants and tailpipe emmissions are the major causes of the melting Arcitc, according to scientists.
It is a win-win situation for Bush and his corporate friends, who profiteer from the power plants and are now rushing to claim the melting Northwest Passage to drill for oil and gas.
The deceptive news stories from Arizona Republic and other media benefit corporations like Sithe Global, owned primarily by Blackstone, one of the Bush family cronies and member of the Skull and Bones secret society based at Yale University.
Sithe is cutting the deal with Navajos for the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant, under protest by elderly Navajos on the land, at Dooda (NO) Desert Rock.
Skull and Bones seeks world domination through political power and financial dominion. The production of the first atomic bomb was controlled by members of this secret society, according to the research in "Secrets of the Tomb," by Alexandra Robbins.
Grandfather Prescott Bush dug up Geronimo's skull, according to Skull and Bones own log.
Then, Bush family members and a Skull and Bones attorney attempted to return a skull to a delegation from San Carlos Apache Tribal Council in the 1980s, but they rejected it, since it was the skull of a child, according to San Carlos Apache Raleigh Thompson who served on the council and was part of the delegation to New York.
Don't be deceived by the Arizona Republic and its claims that coal mines are the savior of the Navajo people.
Coal mines are the death of Navajo people and pocket change for Navajo politicians.
.
(Photo: San Juan Power Plant. The San Juan Power Plant and Four Corners Power Plant are the two existing power plants on Navajo Nation land in the Four Corners area near Farmington, NM. It is the same area where the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant would be built. The sacred place of Navajo origin, Dinetah, is also in this region. )
Return to Censored News Homepage:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
April 12, 2008
Longest Walk Northern Route Photos by Chris Teves
Longest Walk Northern Route in Kansas/Photo by Chris Teves
More photos at:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/04/longest-walk-chris-teves-photos.html
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