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Oppose Raising Shasta Dam (& alternatives 2 monoculture)
An entire week of film showing benefits will unite Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders. A film/panel discussion at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento will be held on March 4 at 7 p.m., SF March 2, Oakland March 3
This article needs 2 be refreshed, event is happening this week..
by Dan Bacher Wednesday, Feb. 09, 2005 at 10:18 PM
danielbacher [at] hotmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kathleen Russell
January 26, 2005 415-459-9211
New Campaign Opposes Shasta Dam Plans
Native Land & Water in Jeopardy
Entire Week of Benefits Unites
Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders
San Francisco/Oakland/Sacramento — March 1 - 4, 2005
Much has been written about California’s water and energy crises, yet the impact of these crises on Native American tribes remains an untold story. A week of events in early March will expose the impact of both crises on two Native American tribes whose struggle to preserve their sacred lands heated up recently with the passage of Senator Feinstein’s Cal-Fed legislation and the weakening of environmental protection regulations by the Bush administration.
The events mark the launch of a unique grassroots campaign that unites some of the state’s most effective environmental organizations with Native communities in an effort to stop the enlargement of Shasta Dam near Redding. The proposed dam raising would flood some of the Winnemem Wintu’s remaining sacred sites and destroy a stretch of what remains of the free-flowing McCloud River.
Film & Panel Events
The award-winning PBS documentary In the Light of Reverence will be coupled with a panel discussion with Native American leaders Caleen Sisk-Franco (Winnemem Wintu) and Vernon Masayesva (Hopi)
These events will also premiere a new seven-minute short, Winnemem Wintu War Dance at Shasta Dam, which depicts the Winnemem’s September 2004 ceremony against the Shasta Dam. Proceeds from the three benefits will support the Winnemem Wintu Tribe’s participation in the new campaign.
Screening details follow below:
San Francisco: Wednesday, March 2 at 7 pm — Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center — Admission $15 — with Julia Butterfly Hill — 5:30 pm Reception $50
Oakland: Thursday, March 3 at 7 pm — Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. — Admission $15 — with Julia Butterfly Hill
SacrSacramento: Friday, March 4 at 7 pm — Crest Theater, 1013 K St. Admission $12
Academic Symposium
The week begins on Tuesday, March 1 at 1 pm, when the American Indian Studies Department of San Francisco State University will host an afternoon “Sacred Land & Water Symposium” featuring presentations by Native American leaders and a 4 pm screening of In the Light of Reverence. Professor Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis) will moderate a panel with Caleen Sisk-Franco (Winnemem Wintu), Vernon Masayesva (Hopi) and Ann Marie Sayers (Mutsun Ohlone). The symposium and screening will be held in Humanities 133 on the San Francisco State University campus.
All four panel discussions will focus on creating a new relationship with water, finding alternatives to destructive projects that encourage increasing consumption, better management of existing water supplies and conservation. The evening panels after the film screenings will be moderated by Christopher “Toby” McLeod, Director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project and Director/Producer of In the Light of Reverence.
Environmental organizations participating in the campaign include: Alliance for Democracy, Cal Trout, Center for Biological Diversity, Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute, Ecology Center, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Environmental Water Caucus, Friends of the River, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northern California Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers, Public Citizen, Public Media Center, Public Trust Alliance, State Water Coordinating Committee, The Cultural Conservancy and others.
Sponsored by The Christensen Fund, Sacred Land Film Project and Kathleen Russell Consulting. Presented by arrangement with Fort Mason Foundation.
In the Light of Reverence is a presentation of the Independent Television Service in association with Native American Public Telecommunications with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Distributed by Bullfrog Films: 800-543-3764 • A project of Earth Island Institute
For more information visit http://www.sacredland.org.
S. Craig Tucker, Ph.D.
Outreach Director
Friends of the River
http://www.friendsoftheriver.org
916-442-3155 x205
915 20th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
The proposed raising of Shasta dam is caused by society's dependence on industrial mono-agriculture and other non-sustainable lifestyles that we need to change and adapt to our ecosystem..
Many of California's rios' are blocked by large concrete dams. The Klamath is another rio yearning to return to her natural cycle. Some alternatives to dams;
luna moth
We are told by officials in the know that we need large concrete dams to supply the growing human population of CA with water for agriculture to feed "all those people"..
When statements like this are made by industrial agriculture PR spokespeople, it becomes difficult to argue against dams without appearing to be anti-human. Either u save the salmon and people starve or u feed people and the salmon become extinct. What if there are other options besides these two nether choices??
Before European immigration to the Central Valley of CA, herds of pronghorn antelope, tule elk and countless species of waterfowl lived in harmony with a sizable (# disputed by anthropologists) human population who practiced careful subsistence hunting (not market hunting that nearly led to extinction of pronghorn/bison/elk/etc.). Indigenous people also harvested native plants that provided a great deal of nutritional diversity with little negative impact on the ecosystem. When compared to the soil erosion/degradation and dependency on petrochemical (peak oil will deal with that dependency also) herbicide/pesticide/fertilizer practiced by modern industrial mono-agriculture, indigenous methods of food aquisition is better for the long term health of both the ecosystem and the human population..
Flooding has long been demonized by corporate media as Mother Nature being angry and punishing people for living too close to the river's floodplains. This distorted view leaves out the fact that the seasonal flood cycles of river valleys bring needed minerals from the seismically uplifting mountains in the form of topsoil to cover the plains, providing nourishment to the springtime plants that will yield nutritious seeds, bulbs and roots to the people and animals who return to the valley after the flood..
Dams are a temporary quick fix to a problem created by industrial agriculture favoring short term mass production for profit over long term sustainability of riparian ecosystem health..
When the river valleys become unsustainable after soil erosion/degradation and mass species extinctions, you will then discover u cannot gain any nutritional value from US currency..
Organic permaculture farms use crop diversity and small scale irrigation (ex. rainwater catchment) to provide equal or improved nutritional variety without the use of petrochemical pesticide/fertilizers. Presence of oaks, willows, cottonwoods and other native trees trap moisture and prevent soil erosion..
Replacing industrial mono-agriculture with permaculture farms could provide nutritional food for many people without negatively effecting the riparian ecosystem of the future. We are ALL of this Earth, how we treat Her is how we treat ourselves..
http://www.pelicannetwork.net/
by Dan Bacher Wednesday, Feb. 09, 2005 at 10:18 PM
danielbacher [at] hotmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kathleen Russell
January 26, 2005 415-459-9211
New Campaign Opposes Shasta Dam Plans
Native Land & Water in Jeopardy
Entire Week of Benefits Unites
Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders
San Francisco/Oakland/Sacramento — March 1 - 4, 2005
Much has been written about California’s water and energy crises, yet the impact of these crises on Native American tribes remains an untold story. A week of events in early March will expose the impact of both crises on two Native American tribes whose struggle to preserve their sacred lands heated up recently with the passage of Senator Feinstein’s Cal-Fed legislation and the weakening of environmental protection regulations by the Bush administration.
The events mark the launch of a unique grassroots campaign that unites some of the state’s most effective environmental organizations with Native communities in an effort to stop the enlargement of Shasta Dam near Redding. The proposed dam raising would flood some of the Winnemem Wintu’s remaining sacred sites and destroy a stretch of what remains of the free-flowing McCloud River.
Film & Panel Events
The award-winning PBS documentary In the Light of Reverence will be coupled with a panel discussion with Native American leaders Caleen Sisk-Franco (Winnemem Wintu) and Vernon Masayesva (Hopi)
These events will also premiere a new seven-minute short, Winnemem Wintu War Dance at Shasta Dam, which depicts the Winnemem’s September 2004 ceremony against the Shasta Dam. Proceeds from the three benefits will support the Winnemem Wintu Tribe’s participation in the new campaign.
Screening details follow below:
San Francisco: Wednesday, March 2 at 7 pm — Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center — Admission $15 — with Julia Butterfly Hill — 5:30 pm Reception $50
Oakland: Thursday, March 3 at 7 pm — Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. — Admission $15 — with Julia Butterfly Hill
SacrSacramento: Friday, March 4 at 7 pm — Crest Theater, 1013 K St. Admission $12
Academic Symposium
The week begins on Tuesday, March 1 at 1 pm, when the American Indian Studies Department of San Francisco State University will host an afternoon “Sacred Land & Water Symposium” featuring presentations by Native American leaders and a 4 pm screening of In the Light of Reverence. Professor Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis) will moderate a panel with Caleen Sisk-Franco (Winnemem Wintu), Vernon Masayesva (Hopi) and Ann Marie Sayers (Mutsun Ohlone). The symposium and screening will be held in Humanities 133 on the San Francisco State University campus.
All four panel discussions will focus on creating a new relationship with water, finding alternatives to destructive projects that encourage increasing consumption, better management of existing water supplies and conservation. The evening panels after the film screenings will be moderated by Christopher “Toby” McLeod, Director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project and Director/Producer of In the Light of Reverence.
Environmental organizations participating in the campaign include: Alliance for Democracy, Cal Trout, Center for Biological Diversity, Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute, Ecology Center, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Environmental Water Caucus, Friends of the River, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northern California Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers, Public Citizen, Public Media Center, Public Trust Alliance, State Water Coordinating Committee, The Cultural Conservancy and others.
Sponsored by The Christensen Fund, Sacred Land Film Project and Kathleen Russell Consulting. Presented by arrangement with Fort Mason Foundation.
In the Light of Reverence is a presentation of the Independent Television Service in association with Native American Public Telecommunications with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Distributed by Bullfrog Films: 800-543-3764 • A project of Earth Island Institute
For more information visit http://www.sacredland.org.
S. Craig Tucker, Ph.D.
Outreach Director
Friends of the River
http://www.friendsoftheriver.org
916-442-3155 x205
915 20th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
The proposed raising of Shasta dam is caused by society's dependence on industrial mono-agriculture and other non-sustainable lifestyles that we need to change and adapt to our ecosystem..
Many of California's rios' are blocked by large concrete dams. The Klamath is another rio yearning to return to her natural cycle. Some alternatives to dams;
luna moth
We are told by officials in the know that we need large concrete dams to supply the growing human population of CA with water for agriculture to feed "all those people"..
When statements like this are made by industrial agriculture PR spokespeople, it becomes difficult to argue against dams without appearing to be anti-human. Either u save the salmon and people starve or u feed people and the salmon become extinct. What if there are other options besides these two nether choices??
Before European immigration to the Central Valley of CA, herds of pronghorn antelope, tule elk and countless species of waterfowl lived in harmony with a sizable (# disputed by anthropologists) human population who practiced careful subsistence hunting (not market hunting that nearly led to extinction of pronghorn/bison/elk/etc.). Indigenous people also harvested native plants that provided a great deal of nutritional diversity with little negative impact on the ecosystem. When compared to the soil erosion/degradation and dependency on petrochemical (peak oil will deal with that dependency also) herbicide/pesticide/fertilizer practiced by modern industrial mono-agriculture, indigenous methods of food aquisition is better for the long term health of both the ecosystem and the human population..
Flooding has long been demonized by corporate media as Mother Nature being angry and punishing people for living too close to the river's floodplains. This distorted view leaves out the fact that the seasonal flood cycles of river valleys bring needed minerals from the seismically uplifting mountains in the form of topsoil to cover the plains, providing nourishment to the springtime plants that will yield nutritious seeds, bulbs and roots to the people and animals who return to the valley after the flood..
Dams are a temporary quick fix to a problem created by industrial agriculture favoring short term mass production for profit over long term sustainability of riparian ecosystem health..
When the river valleys become unsustainable after soil erosion/degradation and mass species extinctions, you will then discover u cannot gain any nutritional value from US currency..
Organic permaculture farms use crop diversity and small scale irrigation (ex. rainwater catchment) to provide equal or improved nutritional variety without the use of petrochemical pesticide/fertilizers. Presence of oaks, willows, cottonwoods and other native trees trap moisture and prevent soil erosion..
Replacing industrial mono-agriculture with permaculture farms could provide nutritional food for many people without negatively effecting the riparian ecosystem of the future. We are ALL of this Earth, how we treat Her is how we treat ourselves..
http://www.pelicannetwork.net/
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Ride a bike southwest of the UC Davis campus along Putah Creek and under the Amtrak bridge on any given day and u may witness uniformed soldiers firing paintballs at one another. When Putah Creek in Yolo County is used by the ROTC for war prep training with paintball guns, how does this effect the nearby community of international students at UC Davis?
Encounters with local ecosystems are rare in Davis. Putah Creek riparian corridor is one of the few places where visitors can observe native wildlife. If a Muslim or Arab student out for a bicycle ride along Putah Creek witnessed military uniforms in training, how would they feel given the current US military occupation in Iraq and the media campaign to demonize Iran and Syria?
Most UC Davis students don't have much time 2 ride their bicycles outside of town, so maybe the above scenario wouldn't happen anyway. It just feels wrong to me in a gut kind of way. This is just one more place that the military takes over with their commanding presence. Young people in military uniform shooting paintballs at each other in preparation for combat with lead bullets or anti-tank depleted uranium. Do these kids playing soldier even know what depleted uranium is and how exposure to the fragmented radioactive DU particulates can bring cancer into their future??
Do local Davis residents have any say in how this ecological habitat is used? When can people speak out and just say NO! to the military and their training of youth into hired killers 4 the oil barons Bush/Cheney??
love, peace and justice,
luna moth
Ride a bike southwest of the UC Davis campus along Putah Creek and under the Amtrak bridge on any given day and u may witness uniformed soldiers firing paintballs at one another. When Putah Creek in Yolo County is used by the ROTC for war prep training with paintball guns, how does this effect the nearby community of international students at UC Davis?
Encounters with local ecosystems are rare in Davis. Putah Creek riparian corridor is one of the few places where visitors can observe native wildlife. If a Muslim or Arab student out for a bicycle ride along Putah Creek witnessed military uniforms in training, how would they feel given the current US military occupation in Iraq and the media campaign to demonize Iran and Syria?
Most UC Davis students don't have much time 2 ride their bicycles outside of town, so maybe the above scenario wouldn't happen anyway. It just feels wrong to me in a gut kind of way. This is just one more place that the military takes over with their commanding presence. Young people in military uniform shooting paintballs at each other in preparation for combat with lead bullets or anti-tank depleted uranium. Do these kids playing soldier even know what depleted uranium is and how exposure to the fragmented radioactive DU particulates can bring cancer into their future??
Do local Davis residents have any say in how this ecological habitat is used? When can people speak out and just say NO! to the military and their training of youth into hired killers 4 the oil barons Bush/Cheney??
love, peace and justice,
luna moth
Redding is also suffering from the effects of Iron Mountain Mine, a Federal Superfund site given the cold shoulder by the Bush/Norton regime. The clean-up of this mine will not be as expensive as the 400+ billion dollar military budget and nuclear weapon contracters that gobbble up more than their share of rio agua from the north..
Along with the travesty of Shasta Dam flooding an ancient Winnemem Wintu burial ground on the McCloud River, the salmon are also exposed to a toxic dosage of cadmium, arsenic, selenium and other dangerous levels of metals from the Iron Mountain Mine diversion dam, far below functional ability to control the flooding of negative pH acid mine drainage. Salmon are a life providing a stable food source for the Winnemem Wintu for at least 10, 000 years. The salmon are treated with upmost respect and are intertwined with the religious beliefs of the Wintun way. Now the few remaining salmon that can manage to bump their heads against the massive Shasta Dam concrete monolith are also bioaccumulating toxic metals from an early age..
Restoration of a river can happen when we focus our attention on cleaning the hazardous acid mine water of IMM before raising an already oversized Shasta dam. We need to conserve water instead of wasting it on inefficient monoculture systems that only benefit short term corporate interest. Health and nutrition requirements of humans are better met by growing permaculture gardens with multistoryed crop diversity. Less water is needed when trees release moisture brought up from their deep taproots, usually innaccessible to small garden root webs. Seasonal flooding cycles replenishes the groundwater table every year for the next growing season..
Drought tolerant crops like tepary bean and jojoba can replace thirsty alfalfa (cattle feed 4 beef ranchers) yeilding more protein in tepary than soy. Jojoba is an excellent liquid wax with properties like oil. Both plants are indigenous to the southwestern desert/scrub climate and require little water. This is especially good 4 the Klamath basin where the Klamath River dams can be decommisioned in 2006 when their FERC liscence expires. All indigenous peoples of California y Turle Isla have a right to healthy river conditions and salmon populations regardless of federal BIA recognition..
We need to work on removing all the large concrete dams, replacing them with smaller beaver dams that are accessible to salmon and also provide a small holding resivoir for human drinking and bathing needs. For the greater good, nuclear and/or military weapons productions in the US/SoCAl region (Howard Hughes/Lockheed Martin/Boeing/etc.) needs to cease (alto). We cannot justify rio water being used to make weapons that are capable of killing millions of humans..
Bike nomads can displace SUV drivers as we consume less energy for our body weight and are also preventing smog formation, the leading cause of asthma and respiratory illness of inner city children. Our lives are more important than their petroleum addictions. We desire to ride our bicycles up the river and place our mouths on the flowing water and quench our thirst with unpolluted agua..
love, peace and justice,
luna moth
Along with the travesty of Shasta Dam flooding an ancient Winnemem Wintu burial ground on the McCloud River, the salmon are also exposed to a toxic dosage of cadmium, arsenic, selenium and other dangerous levels of metals from the Iron Mountain Mine diversion dam, far below functional ability to control the flooding of negative pH acid mine drainage. Salmon are a life providing a stable food source for the Winnemem Wintu for at least 10, 000 years. The salmon are treated with upmost respect and are intertwined with the religious beliefs of the Wintun way. Now the few remaining salmon that can manage to bump their heads against the massive Shasta Dam concrete monolith are also bioaccumulating toxic metals from an early age..
Restoration of a river can happen when we focus our attention on cleaning the hazardous acid mine water of IMM before raising an already oversized Shasta dam. We need to conserve water instead of wasting it on inefficient monoculture systems that only benefit short term corporate interest. Health and nutrition requirements of humans are better met by growing permaculture gardens with multistoryed crop diversity. Less water is needed when trees release moisture brought up from their deep taproots, usually innaccessible to small garden root webs. Seasonal flooding cycles replenishes the groundwater table every year for the next growing season..
Drought tolerant crops like tepary bean and jojoba can replace thirsty alfalfa (cattle feed 4 beef ranchers) yeilding more protein in tepary than soy. Jojoba is an excellent liquid wax with properties like oil. Both plants are indigenous to the southwestern desert/scrub climate and require little water. This is especially good 4 the Klamath basin where the Klamath River dams can be decommisioned in 2006 when their FERC liscence expires. All indigenous peoples of California y Turle Isla have a right to healthy river conditions and salmon populations regardless of federal BIA recognition..
We need to work on removing all the large concrete dams, replacing them with smaller beaver dams that are accessible to salmon and also provide a small holding resivoir for human drinking and bathing needs. For the greater good, nuclear and/or military weapons productions in the US/SoCAl region (Howard Hughes/Lockheed Martin/Boeing/etc.) needs to cease (alto). We cannot justify rio water being used to make weapons that are capable of killing millions of humans..
Bike nomads can displace SUV drivers as we consume less energy for our body weight and are also preventing smog formation, the leading cause of asthma and respiratory illness of inner city children. Our lives are more important than their petroleum addictions. We desire to ride our bicycles up the river and place our mouths on the flowing water and quench our thirst with unpolluted agua..
love, peace and justice,
luna moth
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I'm currently reading the first volume of The Escapist in comic book form. A must for all lovers of Kavalier and Clay. And it features Luna Moth!
Posted by: Rick Coencas | April 5, 2004 01:49 PM
I'm currently reading the first volume of The Escapist in comic book form. A must for all lovers of Kavalier and Clay. And it features Luna Moth!
Posted by: Rick Coencas | April 5, 2004 01:49 PM
There's a name for this. It's called "anthropomorphizing."
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