Latest Episodes

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Kathryn Hoffman

6/5/2013
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Length: 
17:28
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Topics: environment, minnesota, mining, truth, non-ferrous, sulfide, polymet, twin metals, corporate, subsidiary, liability, cleanup, water

Kathryn Hoffman is an attorney with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA). Hoffman elaborates on the issue of sulfide mining in northern Minnesota. Filmed March 22, 2013. … More

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Margaret Levin

5/24/2013
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Length: 
12:50
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Topics: climate change, tar sands, pollution, carbon, fossil fuels, emissions, dirty, energy, clean, environmental justice

Director of the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, Margaret Levin speaks about the greatest concerns to increasing global greenhouse gas emissions including the exploitation of the Alberta Tar Sands. In the second video, Sierra Club Volunteer Leader Sarah Risser talks more about the tar sands exploitation and North American oil pipeline infrastructure. Filmed March 22, 2013 at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. … More

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Phoebe Kebec

5/23/2013
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Length: 
16:49
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Topics: water, mining, sulfuric acid, wisconsin, indigenous, anishinaabeg, chippewa, bad river, wild rice, Treaty, rights, politics

Phoebe Kebec is an indigenous attorney representing the Bad River/Lake Superior Band of Chippewa/Anishinaabeg Tribe. Kebec speaks to the need to protect the waters from the potential threats of sulfide mining in northern Wisconsin. Filmed March 22, 2013 at the American Indian Center, Minneapolis. … More

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Mike Wiggins, Jr.

5/17/2013
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Length: 
29:24
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Topics: bad river, indigenous, environment, attack, wild rice, treaties, rights, mine, iron, sulfide, contamination, genocide

Wiggins, the Tribal Chair of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinaabeg) takes a holistic approach regarding the struggle to protect clean waters from iron sulfide mining in the Penokee Hills, part of the Bad River watershed of northern Wisconsin. … More

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Paula Maccabee

5/15/2013
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Length: 
20:52
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Topics: water, treaties, rights, sulfide mining, MN, minnesota, polymet, mine, tailings, lake superior, wild rice, fish, anishinaabeg, copper, nickel, indigenous, ground water, law, st. louis river

Paula Maccabee is an attorney active with Water Legacy. Maccabee speaks on the dangers posed to vitally important waters by sulfide mining in northern Minnesota. … More

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