Our Favorite Books & Movies
Environmentalists are often portrayed in media as white, hippie, crunchy, granola do gooders who live to hug trees and camp.
In reality, environmental justice is most often fought for on a daily basis by our Native communities to protect their lands and wild rice waters from oil and sulfate pollution.
Look for books and movies by people who are living in the areas at most risk. Some of our recommendations can be found below. Now It’s Your Turn. Share Your Favorites With Us!
BOOKS
Movies
Silent Spring By Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder By Thomas Locker and Joseph Bruchac
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard
Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland By Jeff Biggers
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet By Bill McKibben
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines By Paul Fleischman.
What We Think About (When We Try Not To Think About) Global Warming By Per Espen Stoknes.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the teachings of plants. By: Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone By Brené Brown
The Green Boat By Mary Pipher
Run, River, Run: A Naturalist’s Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West By Ann Haymond Zwinger
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Do you enjoy Wild Rice Soup? Learn more about how the sulfate standards that protect our wild rice waters are under attack. Do you have warm memories of canoeing through the crystal clear waters of the BWCA? Learn more how the foreign hard rock mining conglomerates are close to securing permits on the shores of Birch Lake. Join our Committee! We meet a couple times a month. We have members looking to be more educated on environmental justice challenges in Minnesota as well as people who have been working in the field for years.
Featured Editorial
So much happening in what feels like plain sight that we are choosing to ignore – but we ignore at our own peril. We are trading the priceless future of our rivers, our lands, our women for nickels that will be overspent and worthless much sooner than we recognize.
So what can we do?
Tell President Biden to #StopLine3 As the ice on the rivers thaw, it’s more important than ever that we contact President Biden and tell him how vital it is that he Stop Line 3 and protect our lands, air and water. President Biden can stop construction immediately.
Sign the petition asking President Biden to #StopLine3
Donate to Honor the Earth (tax-deductible) or to the frontlines.
Join a protest of rally – follow #StopLine3 or Honor the Earth for updates
Monitor the construction with Watch the Line MN
10 Reasons Why This A Bad Idea. Earlier this month, the USDA announced that it will reopen 365 square miles of mineral leasing and sulfide mining in the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) watershed.
WOMEN'S MARCH MINNESOTA ANNOUNCES POWER TO THE POLLS
9/14/18: St. Paul, MN ---- Power to the Polls: Over the past two years we’ve resisted, persisted and created change, and now it’s time to bring our collective Power to The Polls.
On Sep 21st, early voting opens in Minnesota. At that point, it is 45 days until the general election on November 6th.
Now is the time to take action to ensure that we protect our rights and once again live in a country we are proud of. If not now - when? This is why we marched. In addition to the requests to participate, we will be sending out motivational videos and educational pieces about the election process called “Election Central”.
Two years ago, Jamar Clark and Philando Castile were killed by police. Justine Damond was killed last year. Thurman Blevins, Jr. was killed just last month. This is unacceptable. These were human beings. Our neighbors.
The pressure for and against quickly confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the vacant U.S. Supreme Court is ramping up in the U.S. Senate.
Now is the time for citizens to contact senators, supporting careful consideration rather than haste on this nomination.
In the coming days, Women’s March Minnesota will send an open letter to Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Tina Smith on behalf of the 110,000 Minnesotans who marched January 21st 2017, urging our Senators to vote NO on any nominee who does not believe the United States Constitution incorporates a right to privacy and will not commit to publicly stating that Roe v. Wade is settled law.
Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission PUC Bows to Big Oil
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently granted Enbridge Inc. permission to pursue building its pipeline (Line 3) through Northern Minnesota. In addition to the real concerns that the pipeline will leak, as they all do, and destroy our land and pollute our water, strong objections to Line 3 are also based on how it will only contribute to and accelerate the devastating effects of our warming climate.
Featured Call To Action
December 14th marks the one-year anniversary of the first large scale arrest from nonviolent direct action against the Line 3 Pipeline. To recognize the event, MN350, Rainforest Action Network, Honor the Earth and others are holding a national Stop Line 3 Day of Action.
We support the Stop Line 3 for many reasons. First, the damage being done to the Earth will irreparably hurt our lives and the lives for generations to come. Second, the Water Protectors and Grandmothers who lead this effort are Indigenous women we support them.
The Treaty People Gathering is a weekend-long initiative leading up to a non-violent direct action on June 7 in Northern Minnesota to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 project in Northern Minnesota.
WMM members have been involved with Line 3 actions in the past by volunteering to document construction of the line and attending protests in Northern Minnesota as well as in the Twin Cities. A group of us plan to join the Treaty People Gathering on June 5-6 (Saturday and Sunday) to support the preparation of the non-violent direction action planned for Monday. The preparation will take place near Detroit Lakes; we will be leaving Saturday morning and returning Sunday night. Please let us know if you want to lend your time and energy for this important cause. (Contact us at admin@womensmarchmn.org.)
Although environmental bills did not appear in our initial list of Legislative Priorities for 2019, climate action and justice has to be a priority for all of us, and we were waiting to see what bills would be introduced to address climate change.
We are very excited about the Energy and Climate Omnibus bill (HF 1833) that has really come together in the last few weeks!
From Honor the Earth: Via Women's Foundation of Minnesota “Day 2 of the #ChangeCulture tour in Northern MN starts now! Visiting HonorTheEarth, a #YWIMN grantee-partner that uses music, the arts, the media, and #Indigenous wisdom to create awareness and support for #Native environmental issues ...”
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Just 55 days to the elections! Want to find out what the candidates running in your district stand for? Even better - want to ask the candidates a question so they will have to go public on issues that are important to you?
The latest developments in the Mueller investigation only strengthen the argument that the US Senate should NOT proceed with considering Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for SCOTUS.
LaDonna Redmond is a social justice, gun violence and food advocate. She is a community organizer, and she is a friend of Women's March MN. We respect the work LaDonna is doing in the community and have learned so much from her. Now she needs our help. Her young adult child had a cardiac arrest and is fighting for their life. Please show LaDonna the generosity she has shown us and contribute to this emergency fundraiser to help her and her child.
The Primaries are just 5 days away. These federal, state, county (and some local) primary elections are important because this is when you get to make sure that the right candidates will be on the ballot in the general elections in November.
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