WEA advocates take a stand for water and sacred sites

July 29, 2010

  This evening, the Flagstaff City Council’s Water Commission will hold a public hearing to decide whether to sell municipal drinking water to Arizona Snowbowl, the ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks, instead of or as well as reclaimed wastewater. WEA Delegates from our May 2010 Advocacy Delegation, Defending Sacred Places in the Southwest,…

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We Are Together: WEA’s 2010 Gala

July 12, 2010

  “I had to take a second and recognize your team and your admiring supporters for an amazing program last night. Not only am I sure it was successful for WEA, but I hope that you realize you inspired us all and showed us what’s possible in our own endeavors…Thank you for demonstrating what it…

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In the blogosphere: Simple Tools, Big Impact

May 19, 2010

The facilitator for the 2010 West African Women and Water Training, Maame Yelbert-Obeng, has written a beautiful piece about that training for the Global Fund for Women.   Read her story here. Learn more about what happened in February in Ghana – and prepare to dance – by clicking here.

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What is Sacred?

May 7, 2010

The following article has been written by Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. What is sacred? What does the law recognize as sacred? These were the questions that haunted me yesterday, the third full day of the delegation’s trip to Nevada and Arizona to join with indigenous people to protect…

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