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This is a very powerful trailer. It is speaking out to the collective of the damages humanity has done to our Mother planet.
We as a species cannot live without fresh water as water is life for all people, plants and animals and fish throughout our planet.
The Native people made a promise to the Creator that we were the Guardians of Nature and our planet
-Linda Wiechman, Lower Elwha Klallam.
There are no Sacred and Unsacred Places. There are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
-Wendell Berry
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Water in the West.
The Last Oasis
These clips together form a profound story of the ways we experience the land and the waters, in the nation's most populous state, and ultimately how we see ourselves. The story begins in remote Beatty, Nevada and continues down the Amargosa, down the Colorado, and beyond to Tucson and San Diego, home to 40 million people.
The script, in development for a high quality documentary film project and educational campaign, resides here.
Produced by Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Nde Western Apache), and Robert Lundahl.
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USMC Veterans Toxics Exposure.
Trichlorethylene
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Ecosystem Restoration.
Over the Elwha.
Fine Art Photo Exhibits,
Delta
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Endangered Species.
Pupfish. Little blue fish endemic to pools upwelling amid the rock strata at Ash Meadows.
Here on Creative FRONTLINE, we’ve done several shows on water in the West. Only not the same water from your tap exactly, but the waters in springs, aquifers, and rivers, and now, Death Valley and it’s mysterious partially underground Amargosa River.
Water moves good things and bad in the desert including radioactive materials from nuclear testing years ago.
We’re on with Amargosa Conservancy’s Mason Voehl, discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Pupfish are good.
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Voices of Transformation. Regeneration. and Reconciliation.
INTENTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS for a range of clients. Environment, Climate, Culture, History, Biography, and Legacy.
Secrets in the Ice - Video News Release - Scripps Institution of Oceanography - ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign. Three films, two websites.
Climate Change Not Business as Usual, with Jeff Severinghaus, Ph.D. Video News Release - Scripps Institution of Oceanography - ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign. Three films, two websites.
Global Campaign Launch Rights of Nature NOW!
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Communication and Investor Relations
Investor Education
Consumer Protection
Community Support
Cause Marketing
Litigation and Legal Support
Original Content
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Homebuyers of Texas
Toxic Mold.
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Six Utility Scale Desert Solar Projects Get Holiday Surprise
Litigation Support
Native American group files suit against BLM for failure to consult. SALEM-NEWS,COM By Robert Lundahl (Release)
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Education.
If the American left had fully championed school choice decades ago, we may be celebrating what happened in 1972 in Blythe, Calif. as the spark of a movement.
That spring, the Mexican-American community’s frustration with the public school system boiled over, spurring creation of a scrappy “freedom school” that became Escuela de la Raza Unida, which still exists today.
Sr. Alfredo Figueroa, Chemehuevi | Yaqui
The Battle of Blythe, with UFW Labor Leader, César Chávez (1972). Rare historical footage from the Figueroa Family Collection. Created for Escuela de la Raza Unida 40th Anniversary.
This lost story from a remote desert town is steeped in the progressive politics of another era.
In Chicano Pride. In empowering the “poor.”
Even in Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
“We were ahead of the curve,” said Carmela Garnica, who has led the school with her husband, Rigoberto Garnica, since the beginning.
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Lawsuit alleges solar projects would harm Culturally Sacred Native American sites
Public Relations
Lawsuit alleges solar projects would harm sacred Native American sites LOS ANGELES TIMES By By Phil Willon and Tiffany Hsu
Who Are My People is Well Worth Watching
EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE By Allan Hoffman Ph.D.
Is The US Department of the Interior Committing Cultural Genocide And Ecocide?
CLEAN TECHNICA By Roy Hales
Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists
Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists THE GUARDIAN By Edward Helmore
CENSORED NEWS By Brenda Norrell
Mojave Desert Elders Expose the Dark Side of Solar
CENSORED NEWS By Robert Lundahl
Native American groups sue to stop solar projects
Native Groups Sue Over Solar Projects ASSOCIATED PRESS By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and JASON DEAREN
Businessweek, Huffington Post, Indian Country News, Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Tulsa World, UT San Diego, Victoria Advocate, Ventura County Star, Yahoo News, Others
Portland Oregon Screening with live feed, Clinton St. Theater
“Troubles at giant projects in California desert prompt U.S. to revise plan”
Troubles at giant projects in California desert prompt U.S. to revise plan
With billions of dollars in federal stimulus money in hand, the Obama administration set out five years ago on a grand experiment in the California desert.
The goal: Open public lands to renewable-energy development to wean the nation from fossil fuels.
The results haven't been pretty, a fact the administration has tacitly acknowledged by devising a new plan, expected to be released this month, to find better places to put industrial-scale solar farms in the California desert.
-Caroline Lochhead, SFGate
29 Palms Screening, 29 Palms Inn, Joshua Tree National Park Council for the Arts
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Dam Removal and Ecosystem Restoration
The great gift of the Elwha — Hope
-Senator Bill Bradley
PBS – Free Speech TV – National Museum of the American Indian – The Smithsonian Institution – Harvard – Yale – Dartmouth – The University of Washington –
Robert Lundahl at Whiskey Bend on the Elwha River
KCET SoCal Focus by Chris Clarke
Lundahl returned to the California desert a few years ago after spending decades traveling, landing in Las Vegas, the Bay Area, and the Pacific Northwest among other places. He spent the 1990s documenting a battle by the Elwha Klallam, a tribe on the Olympic Peninsula, to remove two salmon-killing dams on the Elwha River.
To many people's surprise, that battle was successful. The Elwha Dam was finally demolished last year, and the Glines Canyon Dam demolition should be complete sometime this year.
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Broadcast
Read “About Unconquering the Last Frontier” on Patreon.
"Portrays the dignity and wisdom of the Lower Elwha Klallam in the face of almost a century of racism and political ill-will... shows us how the tribe has taken center stage in the efforts to retain what's left of Elwha salmon stocks. When the stocks return, more than the ecology will be restored...the tribe will have salmon to complete the circle of traditional ceremonial ways."
–Adam Burke, High Country News
CAMPAIGN: Undamming the Elwha River, Theatrical - California, Washington | PBS Stations 50 Cities | National Cable, Educational, Festivals | Distributor: Bullfrog Films.
Exhibits
Lake Mills
Elwha River Mouth - Robert Lundahl for the National Park Service - Over The Elwha Exhibit
Seed Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Presidio of San Francisco
Mt. Olympus
We are restoring honor.
We are keeping promises.
We are doing the right thing.
-Senator Bill Bradley
From KPFK:
New Series on KPFK
Features Voices of Land Defenders and Environmental Justice Advocates
Salem-News.com
Creative FRONTLINE airs on KPFK, from Producers Robert Lundahl and Tracker Quinone
What do we mean by Environmental Justice? A Legacy of Greenaction
Published Salem-News.com
The Fight to Save Thacker Pass : Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Published Salem-News.com
We want to do better, but we’re doing the worst possible thing. And sometimes we confuse the two.
Published Salem-News.com
Podcasts
Media: Print
The Climate Front: People Who Live There - Daniel M. Kammen, PhD, Nobel Laureate, U.C. Berkeley
Daniel M. Kammen, U.C. Berkeley Physicist, IPCC Lead Author, Nobel Laureate
The Land You Know Has Been Given to You–Robert Lundahl special to Salem-News.com
A New Series on Lithium Mining begins at the Ft. Yuma Indian Reservation.
Turning the Titanic, with John Reaves – Citizen’s Climate Lobby – ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign
Select Educational Screenings: Pomona College, Northern Arizona University, Sacred Places Institute + University of California Irvine, Washington State University, Vancouver, Hunter College, New York City.
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