Q & A with Co-Directors Kathy Broere and Sarah Edstrom Moderated by Winona LaDuke

HerFLIX will sponsor a Zoom meeting on October 12th at 7PM with co-directors Kathy Broere and and Sarah Edstrom, moderated by Winona LaDuke. Registration required, fill out the form below.

The Dodging Bullets FREE  Screening Oct 1st – 12th and a Zoom Discussion on Indigenous People day 12th at 8:00 ET/5 pm PT with Indigenous Harvard-educated economist, author, activist, farmer and grandmother, Winona LaDuke and  Co-Directors, Kathy Broere and Sarah Edstrom,

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    About Winona

    Aside from being a leader on White Earth reservation, Winona LaDuke is also an in-demand speaker and lecturer around the world on indigenous and environmental issues and a regular contributing columnist in select newspapers.
     
    The Harvard-educated economist, author, activist, farmer and grandmother won two defining awards this year, A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Press,  and a Danny Award The Global Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to developing socially responsible media (previous winners include: Jose Antonio Vargas, Patrice O’Neill, the reporters and editors of the Eagle Eye, the student newspaper of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The award is bestowed annually by The Global Center and includes a $3000 grant to support the honoree’s work: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/rory-oconnor/91204/award-for-journalism-and-activism-to-winona-laduke 

    An environmentalist, economist, author and activist, LaDuke has already published six non-fiction books and has a new one, To be A Water Protector, coming out this fall. (She’s also written Last Standing Woman, a novel about an American Indian reservation’s struggle to restore its culture.) A graduate of Harvard University, LaDuke has long worked in Native and community-based organizing and groups. In 1985, for example, she helped establish the Indigenous Women’s Network, dedicated to “generating a global movement that achieves sustainable change for our communities,” and later, with the proceeds of a human rights award, founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to help the Anishinaabeg Indians regain possession of their original land base.

    In the 1990s LaDuke became involved with the Green Party and was presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s running mate in both the 1996 and 2000 elections. Today she is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization she co-founded in 1993 with the folk-rock duo, the Indigo Girls. The organization played an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and remains a key opponent to proposals by the Canadian multinational corporation Enbridge to bring more tar sands to the United States. LaDuke continues to write and speak in support of water protectors and in opposition to other pipelines and mega projects near Native land and waters.

    Among her many previous honors and awards, LaDuke was chosen by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age; won a Reebok Human Rights Award and a Thomas Merton Award; was named the Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth; and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

    She has for the past three years been making the Green New Deal a reality (what she rightfully calls “the Next Economy”)  in Indian country –  and in the mainstream by establishing 8th Solar Fire to manufacture and install solar thermal panels, while expanding her hemp-based farming operations: her vision is to change the textile industry that can in turn changes lives in our economy and environment.
     
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