November 23, 2016 at 8:49 pm (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, culture, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, Independent film, Indigenous People, issues, Lakota, life, living, music, Native Americans, nature, politics, random, relationships, searching, Standing Rock Reservation, thinking, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", #NOBLACKSNAKEFRIDAY, #NoDAPL, #WaterIsLife, A Tribe Called Red, banks, DAPL, Economy, environment, EtP, Issues, money, music, North Dakota, Oil, police, politics, Sheriff Depts., solidarity, song, Standing Rock, video, Water Protectors, Yes magazine
Yes! magazine’s list of Banks invested in ETP/DAPL
How to Contact the People Sending Militarized Police to Standing Rock
Make this holy-day season truly meaningful. Stand with Standing Rock. Honor Our Mother Earth. Sing Water Is Life Loud and Clear.
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November 13, 2016 at 9:40 pm (environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, Indigenous People, issues, journalism, Lakota, life, Native Americans, nature, people, politics, random, relationships, thinking, Uncategorized, Writing)
Tags: "Water", #NoDAPL, Army Corps of Engineers, Energy Transfer Partners, EtP, journailists, Lakota, Morton County Police, North Dakota, Obama, Oil, Pipeline, Standing Rock, values
What can I say? Really what is there left to say at this point? If you’ve been following events at Standing Rock there’s nothing to share because you’ve seen and heard it all via social media and alternative press–with a few blips on mainstream media when it’s convenient or a ‘filler’ report is needed or they’ve been hounded into coverage by celebrities. It’s down to the wire as to what President Obama and the Army Corps of Engineers will or will not do regarding the Dakota Access Pipelene that no one wants except Energy Transfer Partners. What can I say? What would Obama do if they wanted to run that pipe down the Mall in DC?
What can I say?
That racism still runs rampant in North Dakota just as it did when the region was part of the Dakota Territory before state-hood?
That Big Oil Companies continue to ravage the land and water without check in the United States of Corporate Owned America?
That the militarized state of the American police is on full view at Standing Rock–and mainstream media doesn’t want to touch it with a hundred yard pole and the President is steadfastly unwilling to address it?
What self-respecting journalist would NOT want to cover what’s going at Standing Rock where unarmed Water Protectors are going up against an Armed Police presence which serves only the interests of Big Oil while getting to give vent to its own home-grown racism? It’s the kind of story journalists have wet dreams about. Or they used to. Or maybe only the likes of Sinclair Lewis and Edward Morrow did. (I write that last with FULL respect for all the independent journalists doing their best on the ground at Standing Rock.)
If there were hundreds of pretty blue-eyed blondes facing off with police anywhere have no doubt the mainstream media would zero in on them like a heat seeking missile and never let go until it drank the story cup to its driest dredges. Journalists would be swarming all over those attacks with pepper spray, batons, strip searches, dog kennels, rubber bullets, grave descerations, arrests of independent journalists, violations of civil and human rights like flies on a slice of cheese on a hot summer day.
Maybe that’s what’s required–thousands of white people going toe to toe with Morton County Police aka ETP/DAPL’s security force–a police force which ironically is now at least $10 Million in debt for playing toady to the oil business (according to one local news report Morton county thinks the feds will ante up for their security efforts. Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out for them.)
Or maybe not. I think the problem runs even deeper than skin color and culture and language to core values.
That’s where the crux of the problem lies: The values of corporate mainstream media, Big Business, the President of the United (sort of) States, the Army Corps of Engineers and the dominant culture are in direct conflict, 180 opposition to the values of the Standing Rock Lakota, their Indigenous and Non-native allies and everyone else who loves the Earth –with or without humans running amok on it.
Rampant capitalism, greed, exploitation of the Earth’s resources without a care beyond the goddamned almighty profit margin VERSUS honoring the Earth and all other living beings it supports; a formerly perfect planet with a formerly perfect ecosystem for supporting an immense diversity of life.
It’s Death versus Life.
It’s Oil versus Water.
It’s the value system which claims Earth is a but a resource for non-stop consumption versus the value system which claims Earth is our Mother which allows us the ability to live and thrive as long as we Honor and Cherish it by living in harmony and balance with our environment and non-human relatives.
It’s the illusion of control and dominance of Nature versus graciously living in our place in the web of life.
But, hey, you probably already have thought all this out.
So–what’s next?
What will happen when ETP/DAPL lays pipe under the Missouri River? Does anyone really think an acting without a permit fine will stop them? In our more idealistic moments we like to think so in a fair game. But this is not a fair game played by nice players willing to obey a set of rules. The oil industry is not bluffing, it really is an absolutely ruthless business run by people perfectly willing to LIE endlessly about the reality of Climate Change and make no apologies for it. Exxon, Chevron, Shell–all you have to is check their histories in the Amazon, Niger Delta and in the Gulf of Mexico to get the point–if you don’t have it already. These people do NOT play fair. They do what they please–until it blows up–literally–in their faces. And even then they go right back to business as usual.
Oh wait, if the pipeline isn’t laid at Standing Rock and gets rerouted elsewhere is not the same problem still on the books for potential contamination of the soil and water?
Change is in order.
Climate Change is coming one way or another.
Ask Mother Nature what’s on her agenda. Perhaps her answer is on the winter wind so cold it hurts to breathe. Perhaps a touch of global warming would be welcome at Standing Rock, North Dakota where the cold freezes bones and ices the air it sucks from your lungs. Ask the buffalo what they prefer.
#NoDAPL
#WaterIsLife
#HonortheEarth
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September 30, 2016 at 10:10 pm (environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, Indigenous People, issues, journalism, life, Native Americans, politics, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", #NoDAPL, 350.rg, Bakken, banks, Bill Mckibben, CEOs, Dakota Access Pipeline, money, Oil, party, Pipeline, Yes!
What’s a cellphone for? Activism at your fingertips.
Share your loving concern for Mother Earth’s health and well springs (as in water not mattresses) with a CEO banker who funds DAPL
Call a CEO and share your concerns about their funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline–and other oil projects if you’re so inclined–which contribute to climate change.
Oh, no, not just any banker will do. Contact the CEO bankers investing money in DAPL.
Yes! magazine has put together a list of CEOs to contact at the banks funding the pipeline: names, corporate addresses, phone numbers, email addresses. If you’d rather use snail mail, go right ahead.
How to contact the 17 Banks Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline
There are even suggestions for what to say if you’re at a loss for words.
Be clear. Be kind. Be polite. Be firm.
Don’t be passive.
Don’t let the people at Standing Rock and in Iowa have all the fun.
This matters to all of us. Even those who deny it.
Still unsure about letting your fingers get some action? Then let Bill McKibben of 350.org have a few minutes of your reading time:
A Strategy to Stop the Funding Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.
What have you got to lose?
Clean water. Clean air.
So, have a pipeline party. Gather some friends. Get some pizza and beer. Or some pies and coffee. Call some CEOs.
Water Is Life
September 8, 2016 at 11:31 pm (culture, education, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, Indigenous People, issues, journalism, Lakota, life, living, Native Americans, nature, people, politics, random, relationships, thinking, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", #NoDAPL, Amazon Watch, climate change, Earth, environment, global warming, Iowa, Issues, Keep the oil in the ground, life, nature, Oil, protest, Standing Rock, video, water is sacred, weather
What can I say when the video says it all. AmazonWatch
This is why oil should stay in the ground.
This is why no one needs another pipeline.
This is why protectors are standing strong at Standing Rock in North Dakota and Iowa to protect water and earth.
This matters to everyone on Earth.
March 17, 2014 at 4:28 pm (art, contemplation, culture, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, Indigenous People, issues, life, music, nature, people, quests, random, relationships, religion, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", 22 March 2014, Black Hills, campaign, clean water, Clean Water Alliance, cultural impacts, environment, environmental Impact, event, exploring interconnectedness, global event, Global Water Ceremony, life, living, love, Love Water, nature, NRC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, people, Powertech, Powertech Uranium, Powertech Uranium Mining Company, random, relationship, sacred water, South Dakota, spiritual, Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, transformation, UNIFY, Uranium, Water Alliance
UNIFY ~ Love Water on March 22 because nothing lives without it. Nothing. Not even the corporations.
UNIFY Love Water
Published on Mar 16, 2014
Water Unifies us All. On March 22nd, Join the world in the Synchronized Global Water Ceremony. At 3:00pm in your local time and 3:00pm pacific. UNIFYing with the world to restore our relationship with this sacred medium of life.
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UNIFY.org is a platform create to support the emergence of the Spiritual Renaissance happening on the planet.
LoveWater is a year long campaign that will transform our specie’s relationship to water in every way possible.
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Thanks to the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance of South Dakota for bringing this event to my attention. The Clean Water Alliance continues to fight the Powertech Uranium Mining Company in South Dakota –> http://www.sdcleanwateralliance.org/
The “Final” Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) issued by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed Dewey-Burdock uranium mine is substantially deficient. The mine, proposed by Chinese/Canadian company Powertech Uranium, would use 9,000 gallons per minute of groundwater from Black Hills aquifers, contaminate area water, and open the door for eight other uranium companies that have an interest in the Black Hills.
A Blank Hills Clean Water Alliance Press Release warns that the NRC has put the cart before the horse – they have published a “Final” SEIS – and chosen a final alternative for project design – before they have completed the cultural resources analysis. This analysis is required by law to be completed before this document was issued. The SEIS notes that the analysis is “ongoing.” This relegates the cultural studies to afterthoughts, and necessarily limits NRC’s ability to protect these important resources.
The NRC is accepting public comment on the Final SEIS in the form of limited appearance statements. You can make your voice heard – click here to learn how.
October 23, 2013 at 5:32 pm (art, culture, exploring interconnectedness, journalism, life, nature, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", abraveheart1, beach, blog, California, environment, exploring interconnectedness, fallout, Fukushima, Japan, journalism, Nuclear, oceans, people, photography, photos, protest, radioactive, reblog, waste
Yes, you really do want to visit abraveheart1’s blogcasa and follow the link to the entire photo gallery for this action. It’s something to SEE. The ocean currents move –as do the air currents. Yes, Fukushima has come to the USA and other parts of the globe. Surf’s up~~~~~
Radioactive ocean water from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster was first detected along the coastline of California in March of 2012. Researchers already know that radioactive iodine from Fukushima has arrived in California, and expect peak levels af radiation to hit California in 2016. The problem appears to be worsening as typhoons have caused overflows of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
With the radiation already rolling in, a group of advocates called the Fukushima Response Campaign organized a “human mural” protest Saturday morning, spelling out the words ‘Fukushima is Here’ in letters 100 feet in length on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.
Organizers are alarmed at the increasing levels of radioactive steam and radioactive iodine being found in coastal California waters, all the result of fallout from the earthquake and tsunami that hit the Fukushima plant more than two years ago. “A threat…
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October 18, 2013 at 4:02 am (art, culture, entertainment, environment, exploring interconnectedness, Independent film, Indigenous People, Lakota, life, music, Native Americans, nature, photography, Pine Ridge Indian reservation, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", album, band, Don't Fear To Tread, Earth, entertainment, environment, Grandmother, Indigenous, Issues, Lakota, life, Mother Earth, music, nature, Pine Ridge Reservation, Scatter, Scatter Their Own, song, Taste The Time, values, video, videos, Willi White Concept
I think the video says it all. It just hit the tubesofyou today. What have you been tasting today?
Water is life! We as Lakota people, believe that we are only as clean as our water, and as healthy as our Mother… Grandmother Earth.” – Scatter Their Own.
Scatter Their Own’s video for ‘Taste The Time’ from the forthcoming album, Don’t Fear To Tread – available January 2014 / Scatter Their Own Music. Download the EP now on iTunes here:http://bit.ly/CatchAFireEP
iTunes: http://bit.ly/CatchAFireEP
Website: http://scattertheirown.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/scattertheirown
Twitter: http://twitter.com/scattertheirown
YouTube: http://youtube.com/scattertheirown
Instagram: http://instagram.com/scattertheirown
Directed by Willi White
Concept by Juliana Brown Eyes Clifford
© 2013 Scatter Their Own Music
August 28, 2013 at 4:04 pm (culture, entertainment, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, Indigenous People, Lakota, life, movies, music, Native Americans, nature, random)
Tags: "Water", 31 August 2013, Black Hills, Black HIlls Wild Horse Sanctuary, Canada, Christopher Crosby, Clean Water Alliance, concert, culture, documentary, Evan Christenson, events, exploring interconnectedness, free, Gardner Gray, horses, Hot Springs, information, Karla LaRive, life, Mike Linderman, music, mustangs, Powertech, random, Red Rock Resort, South Dakota, Susan Watt, uranium mining, We Are the Land
Yes, the Clean Water Alliance, the Black Hills Wild Horse Sandtuary and local musicians have teamed up once again to get the info out about the threat of Uranium Mining coming to the Black Hill region by –of course–a Canadian company, Powertech. Canada–what a place–it’s the home of the Tar Sands and birthplace of Idle No More. If you know the score it’s a chance to get refreshed. If you’re out of the intel loop, it’s time to get clued in. Because you too need water to live.
From Press Release:
“WE ARE THE LAND, Uranium Mining in the Black Hills” documentary video short by Christopher Crosby will be presented at IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WATER, a free concert on Saturday, Aug 31 2013 – Red Rock River Resort, 603 N. River Hot Springs, SD. 6:30pm – 9:30pm.
The free concert will feature local musical artists, Gardner Gray, Mike Linderman, Evan Christenson and others.
“We Are The Land, Uranium Mining in the Black Hills” was produced by Karla LaRive, Susan Watt and The Institute of Range and American Mustang in 2011 at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Hot Springs South Dakota.
July 24, 2013 at 4:26 pm (art, culture, education, entertainment, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, Independent film, Indigenous People, journalism, Lakota, life, movies, music, Native Americans, nature, photography, Pine Ridge Indian reservation, politics, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: "Water", Barbar High Pine Peltier, Christopher Crosby, Dahl Arts Center, Dayton O. Hyde, documentary, Edoal Spirit Buffalo, environment, film, Gilbert Sanchez, Heartland Independent Film Society, horses, Hot Springs, Hyde, injection, Institute of Range and the American Mustang, journalism, Karla R. LaRive, LaRive, Martin Meyer, mining, movie, music, mustangs, nature, PK Productions, politics, polllution, Powertech, Rapid City, SD, South Dakota, Susan Watt, Tom Ballanco, Tom Cook, Uranium, Uranium Minin in the Black Hills, Virgil Red Cloud Goode, We Are the Land, wells, Wild Horse Sanctuary, Windwalker
Text via Karla R. LaRive
WE ARE THE LAND, Uranium Mining in the Black Hills”
A new documentary film from Christopher Crosby
Produced by PK Productions LLC and the Institute of Range and American Mustang.
ABOUT “WE ARE THE LAND” –
Governments and the uranium industry say the mining and milling of uranium provides high-paying and much-needed jobs in some of the most remote areas of the country, with manageable environmental risks. But it’s an industry that has long attracted its share of controversy.
This is a major concern for the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in western South Dakota, and other residents including environmental and conservation groups. The Sierra Club of South Dakota warns that water pollution will be a major concern if the mining company Powertech is given a permit to mine for uranium. The Sierra Club’s Black Hills Group, says there’s a high likelihood that aquifers will become polluted if an injection-well recovery system is used to mine the ore.
Powertech Inc USA has submitted its uranium mining application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and it can be viewed at the NRC website. The NRC has announced a time period for interested individuals to voice their concerns regarding the uranium mine’s impacts to the environment. This proposed uranium mine will be the first time folks can be heard under the new GEIS.
“It’s going to be my last great battle, but I’m going to win this one.” says Hyde.
The Institute of Range and American Mustang owns 13,000 acres of private land dedicated to range preservation and a balanced ecosystem. I.R.A.M.’s finest gift is The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, whose purpose is to provide not only freedom for unadoptable and unwanted wild horses, but also a research area dedicated to solving wild horse herd management that will contribute to the well-being of wild horses everywhere.
Dayton O. Hyde, Founder and President Institute of Range and the American Mustang. Dayton Hyde is a rancher, conservationist, award winning photographer, essayist and author of 17 books; He runs the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, an 13,000-acre ranch in Western South Dakota where he protects wild horses.
About the Production:
Director / Editor: Christopher Crosby
Producers: Karla R. LaRive, Susan Watt
Featuring, Tom Ballanco, Tom Cook, Dayton O. Hyde, Barbara High Pine Peltier, Virgil Red Cloud Goode, Gilbert Sanchez, Susan Watt and Windwalker.
Music soundtrack by Windwalker, Edoal Spirit Buffalo (Wind Spirit Drum), Virgil Red Cloud Goode, Barbara High Pine Peltier, Christopher Crosby, Martin Meyer.
Recorded and engineered at Great Sky Studios, Hot Springs South Dakota. June 2010
Filmed on location at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, South Dakota, USA.
All Rights Reserved
2011
Contact information for the Sanctuary:
Susan Watt, Program Development Director
Institute of Range and the American Mustang
PO Box 998, Hot Springs South Dakota 57747 iram@gwtc.net
http://www.wildmustangs.com
Public Relations for WE ARE THE LAND:
Karla LaRive | Studio West Management
PO Box 752, Hot Springs, South Dakota 57747
http://www.studiowestmanagement.com
The Voices of the Heartland Independent Film Society presents two regional films tonight at 6:30pm the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, SD.
We hope to see you there.
Frank Waln, “Common Man, Nake Nula Waun”
Black Hills WIld Horse Sanctuary’s “We Are The Land”
6:30-6:45 Introductions
6:45-7:30 Film “Frank Waln”
7:30-7:45 Randy Q&A
7:45-7:50 Play the video “Hear My Cry”
7:50-8:20 Cody Q&A plus some songs mixed in
8:20-8:40 “We are the Land” video
8:40-9:00 Clay discussion
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