2022 Ripple Week Events

September 6, 2022

Join Women’s Earth Alliance for a special online event series: Ripple Week : The Water Within Us In the past, Ripple week has been offered exclusively to our U.S. Grassroots Accelerator cohort but, now it is available to our larger community! Ripple Week is a series of free virtual events, designed to inspire, mobilize and…

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Run4Salmon 2019: Save the Date

April 12, 2019

Each September for the past 2 years, Chief Caleen Sisk has led the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and allies in the Run4Salmon, a 300-mile journey from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region to the tribe’s historic village site on the McCloud River near Mt. Shasta. This two-week long prayerful event is a call to action to…

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A victory for sacred site protection at the West Berkeley Shellmound

April 10, 2019

  On June 5, the City of Berkeley denied Blake Griggs/West Berkeley Investors’ application to fast-track development of a massive 260-unit project, which would desecrate the sacred West Berkeley Shellmound site (also a designated city landmark) near Fourth Street. “Ohlone people are in favor of low-income housing and are aware of the extreme housing crisis…

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Beyond the Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies report

April 10, 2019

  The Shedding Light on Environmental Violence Initiative shows us that what happens to the land, happens to our bodies. Chrissy Swain, a leader featured in our Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies report, shares her experience of mercury poisoning caused by pollution from a paper mill near the Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) First Nation reserve in…

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