ot jell0o
i remember ralph nader's second bid for presidency but not his first, did
this lady really run side by side with him. here's the bio of the person
who ran with him i think the first time. i wonder if he;ll be a spoiler
again and which party he'll use this thime
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> Winona LaDuke, 37 years old, resides on the White Earth reservation in
> Minnesota with her two children. She is separated from Randy
> Kapashesit, a
> leader of the Cree Tribe in Ontario.
> LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age, and spoke in
> front of the
> United Nations when she was 18 years old. While attending Harvard, she
> met
> Jimmy Durham, a well-known Cherokee activist. During this time she
> began
> research into the health impacts of uranium mining on the Navajo
> reservation.
> LaDuke spent time in South Dakota, New Mexico and Arizona on
> additional
> projects with grassroots Native organizations.
> After graduation from Harvard, LaDuke accepted the job of reservation
> principal
> of the local school and became involved in a lawsuit to recover lands
> that had
> been taken by the federal government and the logging industry >from
> the White
> Earth Reservation. After losing the suit, LaDuke founded the White
> Earth Land
> Recovery Project and began the work of recovering the 800,000 acres
> that had
> been taken from the reservation. (So far, the Land Recovery Project
> has
> purchased 1,000 acres and expects to acquire an additional 30,000 in
> the next
> couple of years.)
> In the 1980's, LaDuke was a leader of the successful opposition to the
> James
> Bay hydroelectric projects and was named "the most prominent Native
> American
> environmental activist" by several publications.
> She next founded the Indigenous Womens' Network which she led to last
> year's
> World Conference on Women in Beijing. The IWN works on a variety of
> projects,
> including the investigation of small sustainable industries, such as
> rice
> production and solar and wind energy sources for use on the
> reservation.
> In October of 1994, LaDuke was arrested while protesting the
> clearcutting of
> both old growth and new growth that was used to facilitate the
> printing of the
> phone books.
> In Spring of 1995, LaDuke organized and hosted a national tour of the
> Indigo
> Girls. The tour was known as the "Honor the Earth" tour, and was
> organized to
> raise money for local grassroots organizations. $250,000 was raised by
> the tour
> for these groups, and over 40,000 individuals attended the concerts.
> In March
> of 1995 LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of "50 Leaders
> for the
> Future."
> Currently, LaDuke is writing a book on Native Environmentalism (South
> End
> Press) and a novel for Voyageur Press; she works on issues ranging
> from land
> restoration to organic agriculture.
> Winona LaDuke is an activist for the Chippewa people of Northern
> Minnesota; she
> serves on the board of directors of GreenPeace USA and is board
> co-chair of the
> Indigenous Women's Network. She also publishes the journal Indigenous
> Women and
> serves as a program officer for a Naive American controlled
> foundation. She was
> recently in Chiapas, working with indigenous peoples' of the region
> and
> attending an international conference.
> LaDuke has published numerous articles, has testified to governmental
> bodies in
> the U.S. and Europe, and has spoken to university audiences from coast
> to
> coast.
> In Mother Jones, LaDuke was quoted as saying "spirituality is the
> foundation of
> all of my political work." For other quotes, see the January, 1996
> issue of
> Mother Jones. She has also appeared in Time magazine(1995), The
> Progressive and
> People Weekly (1994).
--
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad
> Scientist
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