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Early August Climate & Indigenous Activism Opportunities!

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August 3-5: Remember the Water Kalispel Pow Wow & Paddle

From 9 am on Thursday, August 3, until Saturday, August 5, descendants of the original inhabitants of remote, north Idaho, the Kalispel people, will paddle 51 miles in traditional canoes and camp twice, between City Beach Park in Sandpoint, Idaho, and the Kalispel Pow Wow Grounds north of Usk, Washington. Nathan Piengkham and other organizers of the event called Remember the Water invite regional, canoe families, water protectors, and supporters to join them in part or all of their amazing journey on Lake Pend Oreille and the Pend Oreille River, emphasizing respect for water throughout their aboriginal homeland.  They ask for help with extra food, canoes, and kayaks, brought to the Thursday morning send-off and later camps.

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists have been eagerly awaiting this event, grateful, encouraged, and elated that Kalispel and other tribal families are reviving traditional canoes and accompanying ceremonies that restore and show inspiring interactions with sacred lake and river waters. Potential participants can reserve and rent kayaks and paddle boards at two downtown Sandpoint businesses, and converge with any type of manual watercraft at “Sand Place,” the Kalispel name for current City Beach Park, the site of some of the largest, Northwest gatherings and festivals of Natives until the 1930s.  Or plan to meet at one of the various camping spots and/or paddle on shorter sections of the trip.  See the following links and the Kalispel facebook page, for event flyers, route maps, updates, and further information about event schedules and locations, subject to change.

Remember the Water Kalispel Pow Wow 51-Mile Paddle, July 19, 2017 Ivy Sparrow Robin

Remember the Water Pow Wow & 51-Mile Paddle, July 25, 2017 Nathan Piengkham

Sandpoint City Beach Park to Kalispel Pow Wow Grounds Route, July 19, 2017 Helen Yost

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Climate Justice Forum: Spokane Train Blockaders Talk in Sandpoint, Kalispel Tribe Paddle, Fossil Fuel Resistance Camp, #No2ndBridge Outreach, Oil Pipeline Protests, Sabotage, & Reduced Regulations 8-2-17

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The Wednesday, August 2, 2017 Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide, features the first of two parts of the Spokane train blockaders talk in Sandpoint, Idaho, on July 29.  Raging Grannies Margie Heller, Nancy Nelson, and Deena Romoff and Veteran for Peace Rusty Nelson discuss their backgrounds, motivations, arrests, and court cases for blocking Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal and oil trains in East Spokane, Washington, in late August and September 2016.  We also cover an upcoming Kalispel Tribe paddle, a fossil fuel resistance camp, second Lake Pend Oreille rail bridge opposition outreach, and oil pipeline protests, sabotage, and reduced regulations in California, North Dakota, and Montana.  Broadcast for five and a half years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show offers news and interviews about continent-wide, community resistance to fossil fuel projects, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as her KRFP DJ.