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Tongva Nation, Los Angeles, Gloria Arellanes

Sustaining the Legacy of the Tongva: Before and After “Los Angeles”

September 5, 2019 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Grandmother Gloria Arellanes speaks on the heritage of the Tongva people, who inhabited and stewarded the area referred to as the “Los Angeles Basin” as well as the Southern Channel Islands. Grandmother Gloria offers her insights about the state of our world, youth, elderhood and the intergenerational cycle of learning, as well as how we might honor proper protocols, First Nations and all that is Sacred, amidst the backdrop of increasing urbanity, and the numerous perils now facing our environment.

Eco-Cultural-Travel

Wild Sonoma’s ‘Valley of the Moon’ – Living with the Land

May 15, 2019 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

The Sonoma Valley in Northern California is known for it’s world-class wine, gentle hills, and year-round temperate climate, where novelist-gentleman-farmer Jack London set up his ode to wild sustainability one hundred years before it became a thing. Flying over in a hot air balloon, hiking the protected hillsides to find a precious Pinot Noir at one of the 425 wineries, sailing off the coast, there are many ways to get lost in them hills.

EcoJustice Radio

Apache Stronghold: The Spiritual Movement to Save Oak Flat – EcoJustice Radio

February 4, 2019 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Join Stephanie Mushrush and Carrie “Cc” Curley Strong as they share about the Apache Stronghold spiritual movement to Save Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel). Apache Stronghold, led by Wendsler Nosie, Sr. for the last decade, is a spiritual movement to protect the Apache Way of life: their sacred sites and cultural and spiritual heritage. The movement is committed to preventing Resolution Copper, a foreign mining corporation & subsidiary of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, from desecrating the San Carlos Apache Nation’s ancestral lands.

EcoJustice Radio, Spiritual

Protecting Mauna Kea, Hawai’i’s Tallest Sacred Mountain – Part I

December 12, 2018 by The Outpost 3 comments

Kumu Mikilani Young discusses with Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio about the proposed, highly controversial 30-meter TMT telescope which would be built atop “ceded” conservation lands on Mauna Kea, considered the most sacred mountain for native Hawaiians or Kanaka Ma’oli. The TMT telescope would be the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere and is being spearheaded by the University of California, the California Institute of Technology as well as: Japan, China, India and Canada.

EcoJustice Radio, Tar Sands

How Indigenous People Will End Tar Sands Pipelines – EcoJustice Radio

November 12, 2018 by The Outpost 1 comment

Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio talks with Lydia Ponce, a Mayo-Quechua Indigenous activist, member of AIM (American Indian Movement), and Co-Director of Idle No More SoCal. She also works as SoCal 350 Engagement Director

Rituals and Traditions, Urban Art

Dancing Devils of Venezuela Challenge US Consumer Culture

November 8, 2017 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

An exhibition by artist Cristóbal Valecillos in Los Angeles invoked the Dancing Devils of Yare, a 400-year old Venezuelan tradition celebrating life, the triumph of good over evil, and renewal. His provocative interpretation of the diablo masks, hand-sculpted from repurposed waste materials, takes aim at culture and consumption in the US, a plea for overcoming.

EcoJustice Radio, Spiritual

Mikilani Young on Mauna Kea Telescope – EcoJustice Radio

August 10, 2017 by The Outpost 0 comments

Mahalo to Mikilani Young of Defenders of Mauna Kea and LA’s Mauna Kea movement to stop the desecration of the mountain most sacred to native Hawaiians and their culture. The movement aims to protect sacred, conservation lands, wildlife and plant habitat, and the water table beneath Mauna Kea, all of which will be gravely impacted if the TMT (Thirty-Meter Telescope) project moves forward.

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