Posts Tagged ‘North America’
Indigenous Women and the Way Forward from Fukushima
“In a [Navajo] creation story, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder—uranium—in the soil and never to dig it up. If it were taken from the ground, they were told, a great evil would come.”…
Read MoreCollaborations for the Sacred Earth
Last Wednesday, over 200 people packed the theater and an overflow room at the Brower Center for WEA’s final Weaving the Worlds event of 2010! We are so grateful that so many of our community gathered to support our work in North America. Check out our Facebook page for beautiful photographs of the event. …
Read MorePower Lines
Where do you get your power? Does it emerge from the ground beneath your feet? Do you look to the sky or to the waters for it? Does it coalesce within your community? As power flows towards you, does it render others’ lives bleak while it brightens yours? Will your great grandchildren’s great grandchildren be…
Read MorePromoting Energy Justice on the Navajo Nation: Merging the Ancient with the Modern
Women’s Earth Alliance, Art/Design Direction Across these long empty roads, amidst red mesa plateaus and small desert towns, I hold my camera in hand as my mind’s fingers trace the edges of horizons lined with rock formations that seem to have been intentionally carved out by Nature’s hands. Every now and then I spot rural…
Read MoreShiprock
In this magnificent southwest desert, a person cannot help but notice rocks and boulders. Peculiar stone outcroppings and plateaus highlight the striking landscape. There is also a mysterious sense that stories are written in the layered strata of the ancient mountains. We are four days in on our southwest journey with WEA’s Advocacy Delegation:…
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