Environmental Tacticians: Diverse strategies key to advocating for Earth

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Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Environmental Tacticians: Diverse strategies key to advocating for Earth

From banning fracking to respecting the rights of mother earth, women employ all means at their disposal, including science education for the public, petitions, lobbying, blockading, marching, speaking, singing, and putting their lives on the line. Includes coverage of women's actions at the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru.
Interviewees: biologist Sandra Steingraber, active in the successful campaign to ban fracking in New York State, and a leader of the We Are Seneca Lake protest movement; Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women's Earth & Climate Action Network. Speakers: Sonia Guajajara, National Coordinator of Brazil's Association of Indigenous Peoples, Maranhao, Brazil; Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation elder, actress, long-time activist, and Indigenous Environmental Network representative; Nina Gualinga, Kichwa youth leader from Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

From WINGS:  Women's International News Gathering Service   
 
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