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Menominee River, Inc.
A FREE event, open to the public, to protect our water and sacred sites from the threat posed by the Back Forty Mine project.
Come join us Friday, July 16 at 12:00 noon at Stephenson Island, 1680 Bridge St., Marinette, WI, to celebrate and bless the Menominee River – with participation by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, the Indigenous Caucus of the Western Mining Action Network, and the Coalition to SAVE the Menominee River, Inc.
A special ceremony will be held by members of the Menominee Nation to bless the waters of the Menominee River – which is their namesake River and the location of many sites sacred to the Tribe.
Register here for this online event: https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/376888Extraction industries are destroying people and planet for the profit of a few. Whether it’s Enbridge’s Line 3 and Line 5 to carry dirty tar sands oil across Wisconsin for export or the Back Forty metallic sulfide mine that threatens the Menominee River, extraction is running rampant in our state with little to no oversight.But the people, led by indigenous groups, are fighting back. In this event, Our Wisconsin Revolution and the Sustainable Saturday Night team will present a town hall on Indigenous-Led Resistance to Extraction Industries.Join us at 6 p.m. CT for the first half hour to hear original music about Line 3 from singer-songwriter Larry Long, as well as testimony from a recent visitor to a Line 3 resistance camp: Justice Peche (Oneida), OWR board member.Then our panel discussion will get underway at 6:30 p.m. with a lineup of speakers that includes:
America is divided. Period.
In a country so divided, it s up to us, We the People, to unite America, even if it requires one-on-one conversations. It s worth it, my fellow Americans, for the sake of the unity of this great country which we all call our home.
Let me share one of my own personal stories that keeps reminding me why we are here in America. I came to the United States from India over 35 years ago. Two white people (husband and wife) I never met before invited me for dinner at their house in Wausau last year. As I was about to leave, the wife said, I heard you have been selected to receive a prestigious national FBI award (the only one from Wisconsin) from the FBI director Christopher Wray in Washington, D.C. Congratulations! It will be a great honor for me and my husband to go with you to D.C. and join your family as you receive this award.