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Length: 0:28:46
Uploaded: 4 Oct, 2015

Recording Date: 4 Oct, 2015
Recording Location: New Haven, Connecticut; Lima, Peru; Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #24-15 Environmental Tacticians by Melinda Tuhus, Democracy Now, and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #24-15 Environmental Tacticians
Description: From banning fracking to respecting the rights of mother earth, women employ all means at their disposal, including science education for the public, petitions, blockading, marching, speaking, singing, and putting their lives on the line. Includes coverage of women's actions at the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru.

Host(s): Melinda Tuhus, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Interviewees: biologist Sandra Steingraber, active in the successful campaign to ban fracking in New York State, and a leader of the We Are Seneca Lake protest movement; Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women's Earth & Climate Action Network; Speakers: Sonia Guajajara, National Coordinator of Brazil's Association of Indigenous Peoples, Maranhão, Brazil; Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation elder, actress, long-time activist, and Indigenous Environmental Network representative; Nina Gualinga, Kichwa youth leader from Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Credits: Interviews and narration by Melinda Tuhus; additional editing by Frieda Werden; additional audio, courtesy Democracy Now, via the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network.

Comments: Suggested to air before November 30, 2015 when the next (and supposedly final) UN Climate Summit begins in Paris.