VIDEO: Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth) takes on Foreign Oil #Enbridge

FOOD + WATER | EARTH - The Battle to Protect our Lands, and Water from Extreme Extractions

WOMAN:: Anshinaabekwe teachings, of course we embody the Earth, but also we’re responsible for the water. The first water that baby is in a woman from the rain to the snow to the rivers (underground aquifers) to that water inside a woman. Those are all the different sacred waters.

FOOD+WATER+EARTH | WOMAN:: We can live without oil, we cannot survive without water. We cannot allow Enbridge, and the Koch Bros., to destroy our water. That is what will happen if we allow Enbridge to pipe up our watersheds.

ENBRIDGE IS CATASTROPHIC:: We have a public policy crisis in the State of Minnesota. We are like the rest of you, we have lived our entire life in the petroleum era. We all use oil. We get that. But we are demanding and expecting a plan, a good plan, is a graceful and elegant transition out of it.

WHY a vote for Winona LaDuke for White Earth Tribal Chair is a Vote for our Future:

It is important to come out and VOTE in the upcoming Primary April 5th, 2016. You can request an absentee ballot by writing a note to the: 

**Election Board Box 10, Mahnomen Mn 56557

Our people are suffering.  We are living in poor conditions because we continue to be robbed; our economy from the cradle to the grave is controlled by others. Today we face many challenges, and future generations will count on us to make a difference. This is our watch.  We need to stop the poisons coming in to our community, stop the theft of our economy, land and lives, and protect future generations.

We need to work together. 

All of us. There are a number of good people running for this office. The time is now to quit talking badly about each other. That’s how we stay oppressed. Let us put our minds together.

I have worked hard on the environment, on food, on energy and for our families. 

• Anishinaabe Akiing fought the White Earth Land Settlement Act.
• The White Earth Land Recovery Project is what I led for 25 years and bought back 1400 acres held by a land trust on the reservation- lands open to tribal members.  Native Harvest sells maple syrup, wild rice from the reservation.
• I worked with others to create Niijii Radio, the only independent tribal radio station in Minnesota
•  I’ve worked with our tribal members and others to defend our land from genetically engineered wild rice and oil pipelines and to honor the 1855 treaty.
• I have testified at Congress and the Minnesota Legislature, and United Nations, and I can write laws and regulations. And I can work with people.

AGAIN:

A vote for Winona LaDuke for White Earth Tribal Chair is a Vote for our Future: It is important to come out and VOTE in the upcoming Primary April 5th, 2016. You can request an absentee ballot by writing a note to the: 

**Election Board Box 10, Mahnomen Mn 56557

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WOMAN ... WINONA LADUKE ABOUT: FOOD + WATER | EARTH

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WOMAN is a collection of short films that profile extraordinary women as they push forward the front-lines, around the world. This collection is in development at the moment and will be available to the public in the coming future on a digital platform that allows women and men to explore the feminine experience on earth. We investigate the underlying issues confronting humanity to deepen our understanding of the challenges that bind us all. And through these stories, we aim to shift the prevailing gender paradigm and re-write the inaccurate notions of a woman’s role. This action is a vital avenue toward a more empowering and integrated future.

FOOD + WATER | EARTH

"How do you restore a wild bed?" "Can you tell me how you can do that?" Winona LaDuke during the Enbridge PUC Meeting in McGregor

WINONA LADUKE TAKES ON FOREIGN OIL

"Anshinaabekwe teachings, of course we embody the Earth, but also we’re responsible for the water. The first water that baby is in a woman from the rain to the snow to the rivers (underground aquifers) to that water inside a woman. Those are all the different sacred waters." Winona LaDuke

ENBRIDGE IS CATASTROPHIC:: We have a public policy crisis in the State of Minnesota. We are like the rest of you, we have lived our entire life in the petroleum era. We all use oil. We get that. But we are demanding and expecting a plan, a good plan, is a graceful and elegant transition out of it. Because the fact is what remains in the petroleum era is going to kill us. 

Enbridge has not worked on a plan when there is oil leaks and when it would leak in a wild rice lake, even though scientific reports show they have a 57% chance at a catastrophic leak. So Enbridge messaging is that they, “strive for prevention ...,” interesting Enbridge fantasy because prior to a leak the fact is that even though these are areas are delicate aquatic eco system, Enbridge has no training or thought process in their planning to, “restore a wild rice bed,” in the watersheds. Our manoomin, the food that grows on the water, wild rice watershed, and beds are “not,” replaceable. Once they are destroyed, there is no going back to fix this destruction. 

We profiled Winona LaDuke as part of our WOMAN collection. She's leading Honor The Earth and her wider community in a battle to stop Canadian oil corporation Enbridge Energy Partners and the Koch Brothers. Saying 'no' to business as usual isn't easy, but clean water and a safe environment are at stake.

IT IS TIME TO ACT NOW . . .

WE MUST PROTECT OUR WATER