{"id":19228,"date":"2016-03-28T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19228"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:36:56","slug":"environmentalists-join-forces-in-new-orleans-to-foster-a-growing-alliance-to-combat-climate-change-and-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19228","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/03\/28\/environmentalists-join-forces-new-orleans-foster-growing-alliance-combat-climate-change-and-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\">Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-10448 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"submitted desktop-only\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/114A3385-Edit.jpg?itok=Wm2-t1qU\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\"><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>It is time we wake up the world to stop abusing and destroying a gift of life \u2013 before it is too late,\u201d Chief Arvil\u00a0Looking Horse from South Dakota said to a group of environmentalists from across the country who joined him at a\u00a0water ceremony on the shore of the Mississippi River in New Orleans on World Water Day.<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The ceremony took place on the fourth day of\u00a0programming\u00a0hosted by the environmental advocacy group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigena.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indigena<\/a>, on climate change and communities fighting against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreative alliances are formed when you are invited to come together,\u201d\u00a0Janet MacGillivray, Esq., with\u00a0Indigena,\u00a0told DeSmog. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u00a0we did with the four days of gatherings at the New Orleans Healing Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainkeeper.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keeper of the Mountains Foundation<\/a>\u00a0president\u00a0Paul Corbit Brown,\u00a0and Jane Kleeb, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bold Nebraska<\/a>,\u00a0were among the invited speakers who stressed the need for groups to come together.<\/p>\n<p>They joined\u00a0Louisiana environmental groups and activists who participated in panel discussions in the days before a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/03\/24\/environmentalists-converge-new-orleans-gulf-mexico-oil-and-gas-lease-sale\" target=\"_blank\">protest by hundreds of Gulf Coast residents and environmentalists<\/a>\u00a0from across the country against the federal lease sale of 44.3 million acres in\u00a0the Gulf of Mexico to the oil and gas\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n<p>Video: Paul Corbit Brown speaks in New Orleans<br \/>\n<span class=\"player\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCcULqchHvk\" width=\"660\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Holding up a bottle of polluted water from Fayetteville, West Virginia, at a panel discussion on climate change injustice,\u00a0Brown told the audience that water from the river where he took the sample made it to New Orleans before he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolluted water in West Virginia doesn\u2019t stay in West Virginia,\u201d he said. \u201dIt makes it way to other places, including here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels \u201cIt is time we wake up the world to stop abusing and destroying a gift of life \u2013 before it is too late,\u201d Chief Arvil\u00a0Looking Horse from South Dakota said to a group of environmentalists from across 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