The Land and the Waters are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change
The ongoing destruction of Earth’s natural systems is the result of decisions, made daily, by billions of people. These decisions are voluntary and involuntary at once, collective and personal. The question must be asked: what is driving our actions? How do we reignite and reimagine a spiritual relationship with this beautiful planet we call home? From traditions around the world, and from within ourselves, how might we create different narratives that honor nature and acknowledge the sacred?
Two indigenous leaders—Nainoa Thompson and Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq (Uncle)—have both been identified by their communities as messengers who are sharing their wisdom with us as we try to heal this broken world together, and they will guide us through these challenging questions as they reflect on their traditions and spiritual practices. Storytelling is a form of bearing witness to change as we contemplate what it means to be responsible citizens in the Anthropocene.
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Greetings from AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo sent his greetings to the CAW Council, meeting on April 5 in Port Elgin, Ontario.
Atleo pressed the need for educational opportunities for aboriginal youth, an end to violence and honouring treaty rights for First Nations across the country. Thank you National Chief!
No Nets Will Be Found
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Meeting of the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Cabinet members and senior advisors gather at the White House for a meeting chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to lay out their plans to eradicate trafficking in persons, drawing on tools ranging from law enforcement and victim service provision, to public awareness building and diplomatic pressure. March 15, 2012.
State of the Union 2019 and Democratic response in full
President Trump is delivering his second State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night (a president's first address to Congress is not considered to be a State of the Union speech). He will be laying out his vision of the country and goals for his administration before an already divided body after being forced to delay his speech amid a partial government shutdown stemming from disputes over border security.
CBSN’s continuous live coverage begins at 5:00 PM, ET, with a special ‘State of the Union’ edition of Red & Blue anchored by Elaine Quijano. At 8:00 PM, ET, Quijano and a panel of CBS News reporters and contributors will preview the speech and discuss the Trump administration’s policies since last year’s address.
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January 24, 2020 - BCC Special Land Use
Prince Edward Island | Wikipedia audio article
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Prince Edward Island
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- Socrates
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Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands. Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population. It is part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, and became a British colony in the 1700s and was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents.The backbone of the economy is farming; it produces 25% of Canada's potatoes. The island has several informal names: Garden of the Gulf, referring to the pastoral scenery and lush agricultural lands throughout the province; and Birthplace of Confederation or Cradle of Confederation, referring to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not join Confederation until 1873, when it became the seventh Canadian province. Historically, PEI is one of Canada's older settlements and demographically still reflects older immigration to the country, with Celtic, English and French surnames being dominant to this day.
PEI is located about 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Quebec City. It consists of the main island and 231 minor islands. Altogether, the entire province has a land area of 5,686.03 km2 (2,195.39 sq mi). The main island is 5,620 km2 (2,170 sq mi) in size, slightly larger than the U.S. state of Delaware. It is the 104th-largest island in the world and Canada's 23rd-largest island.
NEFA National Theater Project: Twin Cities Regional Convening, Minnesota
National Theater Project (NTP) Twin Cities Regional Convening, Minnesota Co-hosted by New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) & Pangea World Theater
New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and Pangea World Theater are partnering to bring you the National Theater Project (NTP) Twin Cities Regional Convening, which will livestream on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 2 December 2018 at 9 a.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 11 a.m. CST (Minneapolis) / 12 p.m. EST (New York).
The NTP Twin Cities Regional Convening is an exploration of the performing arts landscape in the Twin Cities and the surrounding regions. As part of its effort towards understanding the theater-making ecology across the nation and making more equitable grant awards, NEFA’s NTP and its partners are hosting a day of information gathering and networking to expand the NTP Advisor knowledge base and make connections with the region. This day provides opportunities for NTP Advisors to meet artists, presenters, producers, service organizations, and philanthropists from the region and beyond, and for all attendees to build connections and share stories and analyses of the regional infrastructure, triumphs and challenges in supporting new and existing work in the performing arts, and the structures that support emerging and veteran artists, from commissioning to touring.
The day includes three discussion sessions and three excerpts performed by regional artists and ensembles. This event is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
All times listed in local Minnesota time, Central Standard Time (UTC -6):
11 a.m. NTP Information Session by Quita Sullivan, Theater Program Director, NEFA
12 p.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. Welcome by NEFA & Pangea World Theater (Land acknowledgement)
Sharon Day, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Task Force
Quita Sullivan, Theater Program Director, NEFA
Meena Natarajan, Executive/Literary Director, Pangea World Theater
1 p.m. Panel Discussion #1: State of Ensemble Theater and Touring in the Twin Cities
Moderator: Seena Hodges, Founder, CEO, The Woke Coach
Panelists:
Carlyle Brown, Playwright/Performer, Artistic Director, Carlyle Brown & Company
Curtis Kirby, Ikidowin Program Manager, Indigenous Peoples Task Force
Meena Natarajan, Executive/Literary Director, Pangea World Theater
Luverne Seifert, Co-Founder, Sod House Theater
Sandy Spieler, Resident Founder, Artistic Director of MayDay & Community Partnerships, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
2 p.m. Networking Break
2:15 p.m. Performance Showcase #1: The Wastelands/Open Flame Theatre
2:45 p.m. Panel Discussion #2: Twin Cities Theatres of Color Coalition (TCTOCC) and Racial Equity Funders Collaborative (REFC)
Moderator: Seena Hodges, Founder, CEO, The Woke Coach Panelists:
Sarah Bellamy, Artistic Director, Penumbra Theatre
Arleta Little, Program Officer, Director of Artists Fellowships, McKnight Foundation
Dipankar Mukherjee, Artistic Director, Pangea World Theater
Eleanor Savage, Program Director, Jerome Foundation 3:45pm Networking Break
4:00 p.m. Performance Showcase #2: Little Boy/Masanari Kawahara
4:30 p.m. World Café Session on Community Engagement Practices
Panelists:
Sharon Day, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Task Force
Seitu Jones, Visual Artist
Ricardo Levin Morales, RLM Arts 5:30pm Networking Break
5:45 p.m. Performance Showcase #3: Testimonies / Sha Cage
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email tv@howlround.com, or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.
Confederate States of America | Wikipedia audio article
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Confederate States of America
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The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy and the South, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—in the Lower South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves.Each state declared its secession from the United States, which became known as the Union during the ensuing civil war, following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Before Lincoln took office in March, a new Confederate government was established in February 1861, which was considered illegal by the government of the United States. States volunteered militia units and the new government hastened to form its own Confederate States Army from scratch practically overnight. After the American Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina—also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The Confederacy later accepted Missouri and Kentucky as members, although neither officially declared secession nor were they ever largely controlled by Confederate forces; Confederate shadow governments attempted to control the two states but were later exiled from them.
The government of the United States (the Union) rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegally founded. The War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. No foreign government officially recognized the Confederacy as an independent country, although Great Britain and France granted it belligerent status, which allowed Confederate agents to contract with private concerns for arms and other supplies. In early 1865, after four years of heavy fighting which led to 620,000–850,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered and the Confederacy vanished. The war lacked a formal end; nearly all Confederate forces had been forced into surrender or deliberately disbanded by the end of 1865, by which point the dwindling manpower and resources of the Confederacy were facing overwhelming odds. By 1865, Jefferson Davis lamented that the Confederacy had disappeared.