tagged w/ Current Earth Day 2008
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The sense of urgency that Al Gore speaks about is so true. It's so easy for those of us with a comfortable life to forget the need for action. Especially in America, where our footprint is so big, and our lifestyles are being copied across the world. It's the same saying that 'with great power comes great responsibility'. Many people are ignorant to that, and unless they're confronted with life-altering circumstances, they don't realize the errors of their ways. Is it going to take a storm that wipes out Boston or Miami or New York before people open their eyes? The sense of urgency that Al Gore speaks about is so true. It's so easy for... more
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Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons speaks about the responsibility to look out for the next 7 generations.
Chief Oren Lyons reminds us that leadership has to take responsibility, it has to have compassion and vision for the future, they've got to make those decisions for the 7th generation.
He says, "That's not just a casual term, that's a real instruction for survival."
Via TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons speaks about the responsibility to look out for the... more
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Call to Canadians to stop uranium mining in Ottawa and throughout Canada.
Americans in the U.S. also must oppose the poisoning of earth, water, and air from uranium mining.
This is a crucial environmental justice issue and a people of color and class issue, since uranium mines, toxic waste dumps, nuclear and dirty coal power plants are located disproportionately on Indian reservations and in poor communities which are overwhelmingly comprised of people of color.
But radiation knows no national or racial boundaries. Cancer crosses state lines and country borders and affects all races and economic groups.
We need to unite on this issue because we share one earth and have to stop poisoning our home.
From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog where it's always Earth Day.
Call to Canadians to stop uranium mining in Ottawa and throughout Canada.
Americans... more
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"If the world's growing water crisis remains unresolved -- depriving clean water to more than one billion of the world's six billion people -- it will jeopardise the U.N.'s longstanding battle to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease by its targeted date of 2015, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) warned Thursday."
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog because today and every day is Earth Day. "If the world's growing water crisis remains unresolved -- depriving clean... more
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Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and elsewhere in Arizona.
Hear Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., and other Indian leaders decry the desecration of the water and land.
This message from your friends at TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog.Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and... more
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On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio and TouchArt Salon.
- June 2007
- Realizing the Dream Listening and Learning Tour, TouchArt's Charleen Touchette, Liesette Paisner and Photographer Sage Paisner guided Martin Luther King III on the Albuquerque and rural Northern New Mexico segment of his RTD Tour to End Poverty in America. Martin King met with elders, community leaders, families and children in Chimayo, Cordova, Truchas, Picuris, Ohkay Owinghe and Santa Clara Indian Pueblos
Summer/Fall 2006
- Winona LaDuke with Son in Santa Fe for Native Foods Festival -
August - October 2006
- Mixed Blood Radio Tour gathering taped interviews with Indian, Mixed Blood, Indigenous and Indigenous-Minded Artists, Authors, Healers and Leaders in Minnesota, South Dakota, California, and New Mexico.
- Winter 2007
- Oppression/Tradition Exhibition by Oppressionist Artist Sage Paisner, Albuquerque, NM.
- "Chairs for Charity" "Schoolgirl Chair" for Santa Fe Design Week.
- Santa Fe Photo Workshop participant photographed Charleen Touchette beading on Canyon Road.
Spring/2007
- TouchArt Ltd Unity Mural and Plaza Proposal April 2007
- "Calling the Bees" New Art by American Artist and Activist Charleen Touchette
Summer/2007
-TouchArt Book Release for Albuquerque Blues by Jacques Paisner.
Spring 2007 - Window Rock, Crownpoint, and Chama.
- TouchArt Artist of the Month Philip Vigil from Dulce Jicarilla Apache at Chama Lodge.On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio and TouchArt Salon.
- June 2007
- Realizing the... more
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Oglala Lakota Indian Leader Russell Means says Culture is Values. The Lakotah have one of the very lowest life expectancy rates in the world. Only 8 other countries have the same or shorter.Oglala Lakota Indian Leader Russell Means says Culture is Values. The Lakotah have one... more
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