happy Earth Day... more of environmental gathering now online

[Eric Angell]

greetings and happy Mother Earth Day!

i am pleased to share with you some of the footage i had captured earlier
in the spring at the "Idle No More Environmental and Treaty Rights
Symposium".

it has been my experience that there are people within the borders of
Minnesota who have a lot of knowledge and wisdom about living with the
land on which we all depend for sustaining life. the Idle No More
symposium was an occasion for that knowledge and wisdom to be shared.

below are links for the first four speakers of the symposium (yes, there
will be more to come)...

1.
http://ourworldindepth.org/episodes/2013/04/idle-no-more-environmentaltreaty-rights-symposium-nina-waste-wilson

2.
http://ourworldindepth.org/episodes/2013/04/idle-no-more-environmentaltreaty-rights-symposium-raymond-robinson

3.
http://ourworldindepth.org/episodes/2013/04/idle-no-more-environmentaltreaty-rights-symposium-marty-cobenais

4.
http://ourworldindepth.org/episodes/2013/04/idle-no-more-environmentaltreaty-rights-symposium-robert-desjarlait



1. co-founder of Idle No More, Nina Was'te Wilson speaks about the origins
and activities of the most important current indigenous and environmental
people's movement.

2. indigenous grand elder Raymond Robinson, who first gained prominence
for hunger-striking with Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat (Cree)
First Nation to protest new laws abrogating treaty rights in Canada,
speaks on the need to get back to spirituality and connect with Mother
Earth.

3. Marty Cobenais of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) on tar
sands extraction/mining and the Keystone XL and Alberta Clipper pipelines.
inside Red Lake Nation land, Cobenais and others have been camping out
with campfires directly on top of the Alberta Clipper pipeline.

4. Protect Our Manoomin founder Robert DesJarlait from Red Lake on the
planned international corporate sulfide mining in northern Minnesota.
Manoomin is the Anishinaabeg word for wild rice. Protect Our Manoomin is
one of a handful of organizations in Minnesota educating people about the
hazards of sulfide mining.


thank you for honoring International Mother Earth Day with myself and many
others.

eric angell
http://ourworldindepth.org