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WINGS #50-12 Tar Sands
Women on the front lines
Uploaded: 8 Apr, 2013
Recording Date: 7 Apr, 2013
Recording Location: Washington DC and Vancouver BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #50-12 Tar Sands by Melinda Tuhus and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Program Title: WINGS #50-12 Tar Sands
Description: In Washington DC, at an event created by the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, women describe the problems created by the tar sands and tar sands pipelines, and the struggle to stop this environmentally destructive industry.
Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Osprey Orielle Lake, President of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus; Crystal Lameman, a Beaver Lake Cree from Alberta working with Sierra Club and Indigenous Environmental Network Alberta; Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a Lubicon Cree environmentalist from Northern Alberta, working with Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network; Julia Trigg Crawford, Manager of her family’s farm in northeast Texas, in court against TransCanada’s condemnation of their land; Eleanor Fairchild, 78-year-old farmer from eastern Texas working to defend her land against the Keystone XL pipeline; Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe indigenous rights activist and environmentalist, and Executive Director of Honor the Earth.
Credits: Recorded by Melinda Tuhus, scripted and edited by Frieda Werden.
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Weekly Program
Environment > Climate Change Politics > Activism Regional > United States Regional > Canada > Alberta Science and Technology > Earth Sciences Environment Society and Culture > Racism Environment > Pollution Society and Culture > Women |
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