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"THUNDERSTORM
/ America's Last Frontier"
Screening during the United Nations draft declaration on
the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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WHEN:
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
WHERE: United Nations theater, Geneva, Switzerland
"America's Last Frontier" premiered at the
United Nations WSSD and went on to air four times
throughout the African continent.
"It's insightful for South Africans to hear the
plight of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide, and the World
Summit provides the perfect platform for this
screening."
- Danie Van Walt, Executive Director, SABC 2 Africa.
"We had amazing feedback from our viewers and they
enjoyed the educational ride, the critical message so
eloquently brought across with the beauty of Alaska and
music that could become a hit in South Africa"
- Antonitte Terblanche, SABC Africa.
Winds of drastic and potentially catastrophic change are
blowing through Alaska. At the hands of a greedy oil
industry eager to cash in on its highly leveraged lobby
interest with the current Bush administration, a political
snow job is afoot in Washington, DC. under the dubious
guise that a mandate to drill for oil in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge is critical to the nations
security.
>From the heart of Indian Country to the steps of the
capital in Washington, DC, United Nations Ambassador of
Youth for the Environment, Robby Romero of Red Thunder
takes us on a musical journey deep into the diverse and
controversial struggle to protect and preserve the
birthplace and calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou
Herd and the last remaining untouched ecosystems in North
America.
On bush planes, dogsleds and snow-go’s with Gwich’in
spokeswoman, and recipient of the “Emerging Leaders In A
Changing World” award, Sarah James, Eyak spokesman and
TIME Magazine’s “Hero for the Planet,” Dune Lankard,
and Chief Evon Peter, Alaska's youngest Athabaskan Chief,
THUNDERSTORM touches down in remote villages nestled in
this icy tundra. The spoken word of these courageous
Native leaders with the united voice of the Gwich’in and
songs of the worlds foremost socially aware Native Rock
band, echoes from community and concert halls in Alaska
expressing visions, warnings and solutions for the seventh
generation to come.
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD www.thunderstormtour.org
For more information please visit www.eaglethunder.com
Sponsored by AVEDA, AVEDA FREDRICS, INTELLIGENT NUTRIENTS,
HMR FOUNDATION, EYAK PRESERVATION COUNCIL, GWICH'IN
STEERING COMMITTEE, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY and NATIVE
CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL |
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