Love, Memory, Healing: Drama and Dance

     This week texts focuses on the healing of our community in order to move on from our trauma and fix our future. bell hooks explains how without love there is no solving any of our problems because love over come all evil. Essentially she means that until we love our self and the land we will never fix our planet because we don't love it as much as we think we do. When you love something you go to war behind it and protect it with all your might. With this being said we need establish love so that we can let it guide us into change. The other text expresses the fact that climate change causes mental disease such as stress, depression and other traumatic conditions.

    This weeks text was very fun to dive deep into and dissect the meanings. I really enjoyed reading bell hooks and talking about her theory. The discussion in class was by far my favorite of this semester;  we talked about the controversy of the world on love and violence. This conversation sparked different ideas that was shared by classmates and I really enjoyed hearing the opinions of others on this very tense subject. Overall this week's text was insightful to read because it made me realize that everyone on earth needs some type of mental help and are suffering from the system that is put in place by society.

system- a process or procedure of something

theory- thoughts that explains a situation

controversial- can be agreeable and disagreeable depending on your stand point of a situation

Week 3: Climate Doubt and Food Justice

In the Industrial Food System, it shows the 9 steps of the food system, which consist of: growing process, harvesting, transporting, processing, packaging, wholesaling, retailing, eating, and disposing of. In First Food Backgrounder, it talks about the world hunger myths and their response to the myths. The response is technically just solutions to the myths or opposing thoughts on them. In Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate Change Denial by Proxy, it speaks about how the Arctic ice is starting to become rare and go extent in which that would certainly decrease homes for animals such as polar bears. It also speaks on how climate deniers- people who don't believe that climate change is an issue- try to ignore this fact. In Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States, it talks about how white males are more likely to endorse climate change denialists just basing off the fact that they self-report that they know about global warming.  Talking and Doing Sankofa, it discusses how growing food on fam was a Sankofa thing and how it helps with climate justice because you will know how your food is grown and processed. 


I believe that these sources could be a little broader. I think they were very short and I would have liked to know more about each of the sources that were presented. I did see though, the fact that food justice is a huge part of finding a solution to climate change. I also feel like everyone is a climate denier in some way because this has been an issue, but no one addressed it until they saw proof of it or it affected their lives in a way. It made me sad about how the polar bear species are becoming extinct because of climate change. Climate change is melting the ice and it makes it hard for the polar bears to stay alive, Since polar bears are a species and they prey  on other animals and get preyed on, it messes up the food chain, which makes it hard for us to have certain food, but if we grow our food we are one step closer to beating climate change.







Keyword: Political Ideology- a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
Race- the grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society
Gender- the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. 
Climate deniers- denial, dismissal or unwarranted doubt of the scientific consensus on the rate and extent of global warming,
public opinion- views prevalent among the general public.
A local food system- a collaborative network that integrates sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste management in order to enhance the environmental, economic, and social health of a particular area.
Sankofa- "Go back and get it"
food sovereignty- asserts that the people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production

Week 11: Digital Activism and POC/Youth Environmentalism "Social Media

What I got from these articles was about who the leaders of climate change and their background story of why they choose to do the things that they do. Latinos Leading Climate Change, Meet the Teenagers Leading a Climate Change Movement, These youth of color are organizing to address climate change, Meet young activist of color who want to combat climate change and save the planet, Young Activist Offer Their Climate Demands At COP24: 'We're Fighting. where are You?', Get To Know Our Youth Delegates To The Paris Climate Talks: Jylise Smith and We Are Sunrise, are all sources that focus on how young students and people of color and Latino origin contribute to making a change when dealing with climate change. The articles were also discussing how social media can bring together social movements that can be influential in finding a solution to climate change. In the videos, it focuses on different teens who organized a protest or other peaceful methods to address the issue of climate change and come up with a solution to the issue. 


I liked the sources because it shows how our generation now is the generation for change. It is inspiring and it motivates me to want to be able to become a leader and do something that is beneficial to society. I personally have to disagree with social media being the key to social movements though because I think the problems will just become another hashtag and people will only pretend to be interested in it because it is what's trending at the moment and people do it for the clout and attention. I think for people to actually take you seriously, you come at the problem like some of these younger kids did.


Keywords: Activism- the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.
Latinos-  a person of Latin American origin or descent, especially a man or boy.
Digital Activism- use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication
Neoliberalism- a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.
Social Movements- group action.

Love, Memory, and Ecological Healing

The Largely Unacknowledged Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health by Eva Gifford and Robert Gifford, discusses effects of climate change on vulnerable communities. Maybe people suffering from things like Stress, anxiety, and PTSD have been some reported side effects on people due to climate change. In Love as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks the concept that love is needed for everyone to come together to make a change.These texts come together with the overall theory that if people come together after a disaster to make change then less people would have mental health issues.

From my perspective it’s really challenging to come back together after a natural disaster.Its especially hard for single parents with no support to comeback and 

organize their lives.Around the time Katrina hit mother was a single parent and sick.I believe that in the end it takes all communities come together and reclaim their homes.

Vocab:

PTSD- A disorder where people have trouble recovering from a bad experience (adapted from Webster)

Vulnerable communities: At-Risk populations of people (google)

Liberation- act of making someone free (adapted from Webster)

Film review #2

My Louisiana Love is a documentary that was published on May 20, 2017 directed by Sharon Linezo Hong  and produced by Sharon Linezo Hong, Julie Mallozzi, and Monique Michelle Verdin. The documentary is about an hour long story discussing changes brought to the environment and indigenous communities before and after Katrina by a woman who’s family actually lived in the community.Sharon Hong is shown going through a day to day life with her family and the struggles that they have to go through before Katrina with the oil and gas companies and pipelines.To me I feel like it’s a great story but it’s an repeated story.The film was emotional however was a little too much.

The documentary is specifically told from the point of view of people in the community who have been first hand affected by these pipelines in their own backyards.The film is made up of a series of photos, home videos, and maps.The beginning opens with video footage of Verdin and a family member fishing in the delta and older photographs of she and her family members.The angels used  in this film are up close and personal to symbolize the experiences and hardships that those people have experienced throughout the documentary.I appreciate that the film focuses on the people.

    The director achieved their job in informing and bringing attention to the environmental injustice in the indigenous Native American community caused by the oil industry. The usage of the different types of digital media gave the film a glimpse into the raw view into the emotion and reality of the people affected.My  response to the film is that while its a long film,it still holds strong messages and is informative. I would recommend this film to others because it lets people humanize the people and not just seeing them as an event but the impacts.

The impression that this film left with me is that it is important to learn and that we hold the people who actually are responsible for climate change accountable for what they have done. I believe that this film is a must-see for the people of Louisiana in order to understand the extent of the damage that environmental injustice causes to communities, especially the communities that are considered virtually invisible.I would grade this film as an A because it highlights an important issues with the oil and gas industry that’s long-standing for us.

Current Event #2

Jadah Scott

April 25,2019

Current Event presentation: Climate Justice, Digital Media and Gender in Louisiana

Article

Canfield, Sabrina.2019. “Cancer Alley Residents Decry ‘Environmental Racism’ in Louisiana” Courthouse News April 25,2019 https://www.courthousenews.com/cancer-alley-residents-decry-environmental-racism-in-louisiana/

    Sabrina Canfield’s article is about the struggle that residents of St. James Parish because of environmental injustice. According to the article, the residents being affected by environmental issues live in an area known as District 5, which has been a target for resident future industrial since 2014. This place is known as “Cancer Alley” because of the many petrochemical factories that were built in the area. The St. James community had no idea that their home would harbor huge industrial plants. According to Sharon Lavigne, president of the organization RISE St. James, the parish stated that the district was okay with them using the land for industrialization, however, the residents of District 5 never agreed. Being that the residential community is 87 percent black, it is no surprise that the disapproval of the residents was ignored. Residents say they are concerned about air and water pollution that the industrialization would release into their community, as well as the process that placed the factories in their community.

    This article connects to the discussion of environmental racism and lack of care for the environmental health of communities of color. The article includes a lot of good information and statistics. There is also the input of the residents of St. James, giving them a good amount of representation. This article exposes the corruption of the parish officials and oil industry. It is important that the people in District 5 get the exposure they need to help their community to survive so I would recommend that everyone read this.

Film Reveiw #2

                                                My Louisiana Love

The film My Louisiana Love, directed by Sharon Linezo Hong is a documentary that follows the journey of a descendant of the Houma Indians named Michelle Verdin as she and her family struggle to redefine their way of life after Hurricane Katrina. The documentary was released in 2013 and is fifty-nine minutes long. It shows what life was like for the Native people whose traditions and way of earning money were ruined by Hurricane Katrina and the oil industry. The purpose of the film is to inform the public about the reality of environmental injustice in Native communities and communities of color in Louisiana.

    The beginning opens with video footage of Verdin and a family member fishing in the delta and older photographs of she and her family members. There is solemn music playing and there is audio of Verdin speaking. She discusses the day she was born and her early childhood in Louisiana. The film is made up of a series of photos, home videos, and maps. Then she talks about having to move to Pensacola, Florida after her parents divorced, but thirteen years later she returned to Louisiana to live with her grandmother. The main events highlighted in the documentary are Verdin returning to Louisiana connecting back to the traditions of the Houma Indians through her grandmother, but all of that is threatened as man-made disasters cause destruction to their community. She experiences the loss of her home, tradition, her father, and boyfriend. Michelle Verdin finds herself delving more into environmental activism as she gives the Native American perspective of Louisiana’s environmental crisis.

    The director achieved their job in informing and bringing attention to the environmental injustice in the indigenous Native American community caused by the oil industry. Their practices are causing detrimental damage to the environment and the existence of the indigenous culture. The usage of the different types of digital media gave the film a glimpse into the raw emotion and reality of the people affected. The home videos and narration made the documentary more personalized and intimate, which gave it the ability to evoke empathy and inspiration. The film displays inspiring levels of courage, sense of community, and drive. The persistence and unwillingness to give up their home, traditions, and faith cause an overwhelming effect.

    This film inspired me to become as concerned about the environmental and social wellness of my community as Verdin is. Her ability to advocate for environmental justice during times of great loss and frustration is inspiring. My Louisiana Love is extremely informative it providing an up-close and personal glimpse into the trauma and survival of a culture. I Was enthralled by the formatting and deliverance of the information in the film. I felt a connection with the loss of their homes and the displacement of family because it was something experienced as well.  I would give this documentary an A-plus, and I would definitely recommend it to others. I believe that this film is a must-see for residents of Louisiana in order to understand the extent of the damage that environmental injustice causes to communities, especially the communities that are considered virtually invisible.

film review 2

    The film My Louisiana Love Movie by Monique company's, Mark Crassness, and Sheron Lines Hong is a very good example of how natural disasters can be caused by humans.  The hour long documentary was released on May 20, 2017. The theme of the film is the fact that land loss increases our flood damage. In the film it shows how oil companies  would move into community land and destroy their land and health. Monique and her family were displaced by four hurricanes that were caused by the oil companies pumping oil.

     The film is made up of short clips, that was set up like modern day vlogs. The main characters Monique and Mark videoed their day to day life to express wat life was like for them. It displayed the damage that was being done by the oil companies and natural disasters. They were indigenous people of the delta. Through the years it shows how the companies doesn't care about the people who live there. They were giving them contracts knowing that they couldn't even understand  english and then only gave them from either $10-$20.

     The director achieve his purpose defiantly because by the end of the film you understand the importance of climate change and how it  is destroying our land here in Louisiana. The chronicle  film was put together beautifully, it was a clear cut film that was very understandable. The strengths of the film was the representation of real life situations. The weaknesses of the film was the fact that they didn't necessarily do anything to fight against their issue. Overall the film was very touching and inspiring. I say this because no matter what happened her and her family continuously to their  home land. I would recommend others to watch this because then people can realize how climate change gradually hurt us.

       The film is something I will always remember watching because it was so relatable being that me and my loved ones are located here in New Orleans. It was B rated film because it was good but it didn't really show how to fight against the issue. The film is reality and not just factual evidence.

Film Review

The name of the film that I am reviewing is My Louisiana Love. This is a documentary that was published on May 20, 2017 directed by Sharon Linezo Hong  and produced by Sharon Linezo Hong, Julie Mallozzi, and Monique Michelle Verdin. The documentary is about an hour long story illustrating the change brought to the environment and indigenous communities before and after Katrina by a woman who her and her family actually live in the community. It shows the effect that industry standings have on people from lower standings. Sharon Hong is shown going through a day to day life with her family and the struggles that they have to go through before Katrina with the oil and gas companies and pipelines. I don’t think I really know how to feel about this film yet. The content and the emotion in the film was gray, however I also think it was a bit much.

The opening of this documentary is of a young girl's life and as she grows older she sees the changes that has happened to the land where she lives and she tries to inform more people of the situation. This documentary is specifically told from the point of view from people in the community who have been first hand affected by these pipelines in their own backyards. As the documentary progresses the clear and present dangers in these communities become more and more relevant up until hurricane Katrina hits and the community is trying to rebuilding. The angels in this film are up close and personal similarly to the experience and hardship that these people go through throughout the documentary. I like the fact that the film focuses solely on the perspective of the people mainly affected.

The director achieves her purpose through pushing emotional experience that hurts her community and the fact that she is trying to help. I believe that the music in this documentary is very effective because as the story progresses the music gets more sorrowful and intense. This documentary is strong in the transitions from people, events, and time, however it could improve in messing with people’s emotions because I was uninterested and kind of upset when her father decided against taking medicine and when Mark Krasnoff decided to kill himself . My overall response to the film is that while its long, it still is really persuasive and informative. I would recommend this film to others because it helps in understanding the impact of oil industries on communities and why we shouldn't allow this in our communities.

The impression that this film left with me is that it is imperative that we hold the people who actually are responsible for climate change accountable for what they have done. I would want people to know that they should be emotionally ready before watching this film. I would grade this film as an A. The film gets an A because while it is helps in understanding the fault that oil and gas companies don’t get for destroying people’s health, livelihood, and communities . I found the film interesting but after Mark Krasnoff killed himself I didn’t want to watch anymore of it.

Week 6

This weeks text describes what the Green New Deal is and what it is fighting for. The Green New Deal is a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in half by switching to 100% renewable energy by 2030. The video was about a girl named Chastity from New Orleans , who was looking for ways to make Louisiana's infrastructure better and more efficient.

This weeks article and video go well with each other. I really like the video because it shows a young, black girl from New Orleans learning about how to save us. This gives me hope that my generation won't be like the last and ignore climate change. It would be very satisfying to know that my peers are saving the world for generations to come to enjoy it.

Intergovernmental - relating to or conducted between two or more governments.

globalism - the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on a global basis.

bricolage - construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.

Week 5

This weeks videos talk about the war on women. The government is making it harder and harder for women to get an abortion. The pay rate for women is lower than males by a large percentage.  Our current society doesn't respect the rights of women. The entire world needs to practice reproductive justice. Women don't get the respect they deserve.

I agree with this weeks videos, women do not receive the respect they deserve for everything that they do for us. It is not fair that women get almost half of what a white male would make in the same time period. It is a problem that arose from the past where women were limited to working in the house cleaning and cooking. Women have a lot more to offer and a lot more mental skill than men.

Poverty- the state of being extremely poor.

intersectionality- the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

reproductive justice- Human right that can only be achieved when all women have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make choices in all decisions in their lives.

Week 8

The several texts for this week show the major effects of climate change. The first text has picture of the damage. The last texts talked about peoples experience with climate change. It is important for us to see the effects of climate change, because climate change affects us all. It impacts the future of the earth we live on. If we get a chance to stop it before it starts then maybe we can reduce our own carbon footprint.

I believe that these articles go hand in hand in the demonstration of what climate change is doing to us. I feel like we need to do a better job of lowering the carbon footprint and a better job growing things naturally and using organic everything. This will make the big companies want to start growing natural products instead of making them artificially.

Uproot - move (someone) from their home or a familiar location.

preemptively - taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared; preventive; deterrent

consensus - a general agreement.

Groundworks

ground works

Today for class we visited Groundwork Nola. It was cool to see how they recycled water with the horse tail filtering system. They also showed us how they used half eaten food to make perfect soil using their compost system. Today, we used some of their composted soil to plant seeds of our own. I named my Okra plant Billy and planted two more seeds so he could have a whole family. Today was fun and we learned a lot about what Groundwork Nola does and how they give back to the community.

Love, Memory, and Ecological Healing

In The Largely Unacknowledged Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health by Eva Gifford and Robert Gifford, the effects of climate change on people who are easily affected by climate change minds. Stress, anxiety, and PTSD have been some reported side effects on people due to climate change. In Love as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks the ideas that love is needed for everyone to come together to make change is explored. Love and unity is needed to make a revolution and if you don’t have love then everyone will want different things and the revolution will fail. These text are connected because if people come together after a disaster to make change then less people would have mental health issues.

From personal experience it is really hard to get your life back to normal after a natural disaster. However when you have loved one who support you and help you get back on your feet things are much easier. I think that if someone didn’t have that support especially if they are a single parent then that could be an extremely stressful situation. At the time that Katrina hit my mom was a single parent with two young kids and I could only imagine what she had to go through. At the end of the day people all came together and we got our lives back in New Orleans.

Liberation- act of making someone free (adapted from Webster)

Quintessential-typical or stereotypical (adapted from Webster

PTSD- A disorder where people have trouble recovering from a bad experience (adapted from Webster)

final paper

Adaptation and Resilience

The first source: “The Katrina-Interactive-Timeline “showed the time that Katrina hit certain areas and the impact of it on the area. In “NOAASea Level Rise Viewer” it like an interactive slide show because we can type in a specific area and see the water level of that area and the vulnerability level of that specific area as well. In “EPA EJ Views “ it’s a map that focuses on environmental justice in the world. They all basically show how as time passes the impact on the land.

I found the interactive maps very interesting. I really think it’s a good idea to play around with things like those to see how harmful climate change can be. Although I think that it’s hard to make a production on the possible outcomes of climate change.

Vocab:(google)

resilience- the capacity to recover quickly from hard times.

Adaptation-the process of adapting, meaning settling down somewhere.

Group paper

Ron Triggs,Ja’Lexis Williams,Jadah Scott
Group paper
4/2419
Professor FRG
Climate justice

Many communities that are on toxic and hazardous soil are poor and Black or Brown communities.Black people are 75% more likely than other citizens to live in communities that border oil and natural gas refineries. (Calma 2018) The locations of their homes then lead to them facing a disproportionate amount of health issues due to the pollution of their air and other resources.These communities are typically the target of police violence and are criminalized. The criminalization of Black and Brown folk causes social, economic, and political problems that affect families for generations. Some of these effects include people growing up without both parents, which can have many different impacts. Families are also put at an economic disadvantage because they will just have one source of income in most cases. This also causes people to distrust and dehumanizes black and brown people of color. This causes the use of prisons to be acceptable to the majority of the society because the people being imprisoned are seen as less than human.

     Black people are impacted by police violence at a disproportionate rate than any other communities. It is recorded that black people are 3 times more likely to be killed by police than white people (https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/). This is because people of color are seen as criminals before people actually come into contact with one another. As a society, we see criminals as less than human, which allows for us to disregard them causing us to not care about what happens to them. We must remember that we are all humans and care about everyone's health and wellbeing.

          Based on the map by the EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency) if you overlay the hazardous waste sites and prisons you can observe most prisons being located near hazardous waste facilities (https://ejscreen.epa.gov/mapper/). This shows that prisons are having a negative impact on prisoners health and are not helping. Many prisoners experience respiratory and cancer-linked illnesses, which in some cases can be deadly. From the survey of seventy-five prisoners, eighty-one percent reported suffering from respiratory, throat, and sinus conditions (http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/americas_toxic_prisons/). Prisons are killing people in more ways than one and as a nation; we are allowing the criminal industrial complex to harm about 2.3 million people. (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html). According to  an article done by the NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council), prisoners are often exposed to toxic water and air that become detrimental to their health. Prisons like SCI Fayette prisoners were experiencing health issues such as respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal tract problems, thyroid disorders, and cancers because of exposure to  ‘‘40 million tons of waste, two coal slurry ponds, and millions of cubic yards of coal combustion waste’’.(https://www.nrdc.org/search?search=The+Connection+Between+Mass+Incarceration+and+Environmental+Justice)

As more prisons are developed inside cities that are impacted by hurricanes and other natural disasters we must consider the impacts they have on the prisoners and the facilities that they are imprisoned within. We must accept the fact that these “natural” disasters will become more frequent and states need to develop a plan for prisoners during natural disasters. When the media make people in prisons seem less that human people are able to allow states to leave prisoners “locked in their cells, some in chest-high water contaminated by sewage” (https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/inmates-our-defenders-in-disaster).  This is because when people who are crafted to look less than a human by media and other sources it is ok to take away their dignity and human rights. The prison system overall needs a plan to improve the quality of life for prisoners. It’s a real problem for everybody not just the prisoners who are left out. The concept of a program to incorporate safety of prisoners ; and a better plan to make the lives of everyone in the community is highly needed.  An organization known as the Prison Ecology project teamed up with environmental and social justice movements to add prisoner to the Environmental Justice 2020 agenda. This agenda would advocate “federal policies and programs to prevent environmental pollution from disproportionately affecting communities of color and the poor.” (www.citylab.com/equity/2015/07/how-mass-incarceration-takes-a-toll-on-the-environment/399950/.)

The functionality of the prison system and the planning around It need more developing. In the time a weather misfortune happens prisoners are basically left to die. The issue is that it’s morally wrong; prisoners are still human. The safety of prisoners aren’t really thought about and that’s a major concern for everyone. Correction centers don’t have to option open for prisoners to save themselves in the threat of a natural disaster. “Although meteorologists usually warn of hurricanes days or even weeks before they make landfall, prisoners cannot move themselves to higher ground and storms sometimes develop in unanticipated ways”(https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/may/17/eye-storm-when-hurricanes-impact-prisons-and-jails/). The risks are inevitable so why not put in a little extra work to insure security. An almost universal complication with prisoners being left behind to weather, a storm , is lack of access to necessary materials. All U.S. jails and prison systems  need to have an evacuation plan in place in case of a natural disaster. The initial problem is that prisoners die in national disasters because there no evacuation plan in place or the people in charge won’t evacuate. Which is a major issue for both the states and the federal government. A South Florida prison experienced an effect of  climate change when Hurricane Irma targeted that area. Despite knowing about the impending threat, most of the inmates were not evacuated.(www.blackyouthproject.com/global-warming-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-people-are-dying-from-heat/.)    This prison demonstrated its lack of care for imprisoned populations who experienced harm due to climate change related problems.

    Along with inadequate evacuation plans for inmates during natural disasters, prisoners have suffered due to another climate change caused issues. Prisons have a history of providing inhumane living conditions. They do not make accommodations for the extreme temperatures caused by climate change, which very frequently results in inmates facing heat related deaths. “Many serve their sentences in prisons where temperatures exceed 100 degrees, and sympathy for their conditions is hard to find.”(www.blackyouthproject.com/global-warming-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-people-are-dying-from-heat/. There are instances such as the Webb family’s situation, where inmates have had  deaths connected with sustained heat and confinement in spaces without sufficient ventilation.

Prisons or the law has a legal obligation to protect prisoners. Evacuation plans help keep that obligation to both the families of prisoners and the prisoners themselves. Minorities have always been seen as less than human which makes it difficult for officials to make the right decisions. People of color make up a huge amount of the inmate population and unsurprisingly experience most of the tragedy and lack of care.

Above all many prisons throughout the nation house thousands of prisoners, which can make the emergency response and recovery process much more difficult. Some ways prisons and jails can conduct emergency preparedness: Creating and updating threat and hazard incident response assessments,  Providing emergency preparedness and response training,Conducting fire, evacuation, and emergency medical response drills regularly etc. Things like these need to be thought about but in the end there need to be planning and preparation.

“Mapping Police Violence.” Mapping Police Violence, mappingpoliceviolence.org/.

Indigenous Women, Social movements & Pipeline Resistance

The sources "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock" and "Badass (Indigenous) Women Caretake Relations: #NoDAPL, #IdleNoMore,#BlackLivesMatter" all discusses the investments and involvement of indigenous people and not specially women in fight over environmental injustice. These sources talk about the Standing Rock movement, one of the biggest motivations for other indigenous movements. The standing rock movement is the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline through indigenous land. “The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock": is a fight over the water containment from companies. It’s believed that living and non-living organisms are “kin” to the indigenous people we are all connected to the earth. the Dakota Access Pipeline would not only harm their land as well as their water sources but the people in cancer ally and other place too. 

I really enjoyed to texts and videos I felt that they brought out a hidden connection. The all oddly discuss the same things but from different perspectives. I think that the movements are very vital and need to be talked about as and collective.

Vocab from articles:( google)

privatization- going from a public sector to a private sector

eminent domain- the right of the government to take private property for public use

Environmental Movement- a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.

Indigenous Woman

 The Frontline of Refusal: indigenous woman warriors of standing rock, by Temryss MacLean Lane explains how the indigenous women stand up against the Dakota access pipeline. The refuse to give up their land, they link hands pray and practice traditional activities while the Dakota pipeline force them to leave. Pipeline Resistance confronts big oil in the Bayou, by Mariya Strauss puts the organizations that fought against the bayou bridge pipeline such as Louisiana Bucket Brigade and Bold Louisiana. In conclusion Badass (Indigenous) Women Caretake Relations, by Kim TallBear talked about how the different organizations was founded and lead. by strong women that were taking a stance on social problems that impact us tremendously.

This week's text was very interesting and inspiring to me because it was about strong women who stand up for something that will benefit the world. Also it was interesting because more than often we only talk about how black people are put in bad situations but we don't really focus on indigenous people. When in reality we are all impoverished and share the same problems. This inspires me to stand up for something I take passion in changing or keeping consistent.

capitalism- private owners for profit
privatization- going from a public sector to a private sector
eminent domain- the right of the government to take private property for public use

Week 12: Indigenous Women, Social Media & Pipeline Resistsance. "Documentaries."

In  Badass(Indigenous) Women Caretake Relations: NoDAPL, #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, by Kim TallBear it focuses on the organizations that are led by indigenous women. These women are known as "water protectors," because their goal is to protect land and water from the Dakota Acess Pipeline, which is destroying the lives of people. These organizations are peaceful and it is a way for them to stand up for their rights and protect the Earth and the lives of the indigenous people community. In The Frontline of Refusal: Indigenous Women Warriors of Standing Rock, by Temryss MacLean Lane, it shows how the indigenous women decided to protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. These women standoff at Standing Rock and pray for their land and water. There are interviews where different indigenous women share their stories on how the pipeline will destroy their lives. All of the stories were similar, so it shows that these indigenous women will literally lose everything and that is why they choose to fight so hard. In Pipeline Resistance Confronts Big Oil in the Bayou, by Mariya Strauss, it focuses on the different organizations involved in bayou bridge pipeline fight, like 350 New Orleans, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Bold Louisiana. 




This weeks text really hit me. I knew that having a pipeline installed in communities hurts the economy and people's lives. I never knew that it affected mostly women though: indigenous women at that. As a female myself I feel it's not really fair how we always have to step to the plate and try to repair the harm that has been done by the hands of man. These women are very strong to me and the organizations they created made them even stronger. Everyone knows that no matter how hard you protest, the government won't do anything about the pipeline, because the government is funding it. The organizations make the argument much stronger.


Keywords: Environmental Movement- a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
Climate Change- when changes in Earth's climate system result in new weather patterns that last for at least a few decades, and maybe for millions of years.
Community Organizations-  a process by which a community identifies needs or objectives, takes action, and through this process, develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices within a community.
Capitalism- an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Industrialization- a period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society
Privatization-the process of transferring an enterprise or industry from the public sector to the private sector. 
Indigenous people-ethnic groups who are the original settlers of a given region

Ron Triggs
Group project
Professor FRG

We have our interview questions for our documentary. We have our supplies. We set up days this week for interviews. Our question are

How do the placement of prisons contribute to environmental injustice?

What are some ways that climate change can affect people that are in prison?

What do communities impacted by climate change the most have in common?

Why are people forced to migrate due to conditions caused by climate change not a priority for policy makers?

What connection do the people who are least affected by climate change have with those who are affected the most?
Can you name a community that you are familiar with who have experienced environmental injustice at the hands of a big corporation?

How does mass incarceration affect the environment?

What are your views on prisons and the criminal industrial complex?

How does prisons impact communities of color? Economically and socially.

What are the relationship between the placement of prisons and the impacts of the environment?

What's the link between people of color who are living on toxic soil and criminalization?

How does being a person of color living in a poor neighborhood link to their criminalization

What role does media play in furthering the criminalization of people of color and how does that false persecution lead to having trouble finding jobs?

What's the relationship between coming out of prison and living on toxic soil.

How does prisons affect people's health?

Groundworks

The visit to groundwork’s was insightful we learned about how the lab helps put water back into the ground.we learn about the system used to filter the water back to help the subsidence of the ground. We also played and had fun learning about what we were planting and the growing seasons and how to plant different things.

Indigenous Women, Social movements & Pipeline Resistance

The sources "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women
warriors of standing rock" and "Badass (Indigenous) Women Caretake
Relations: #NoDAPL, #IdleNoMore,#BlackLivesMatter" focus on the role of indegenous women in the fight for environmental justice. Native women stand at the front of environmental justice movements in protecting their ancestral land and preserving their culture. These sources highlight the movement at Standing Rock, a protest led to stop the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline through indigenous land. The Standing Rock movement encourages the development of more  Indigenous and women-led social and environmental movements. there are several other movements led by indigenous women or other women of color including Idle No More and Black Lives Matter movements. According to "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women
warriors of standing rock", water plays an extremely important part in reproductive, cultural, social,
and economic practices within Indigenous communities, the Dakota Access Pipeline would harm their land as well as their water sources. Despite the cultural significance of water in Standing Rock, the government persisted in their plans to go through with the pipeline.

The sources regarding the infringement of the rights of Indigenous peoples highlights the threat of greed and lack of empathy shown by the government's officials. The indigenous people have far more respect for the land, humans, and non-human living organisms than industries or the U.S government ever could. The fact that the people indigenous to the land have to fight to protect land that they rightfully own, shows the extent of power that white colonialism has in the U.S.  They do not care about the cultural significance of their land or the harm that they are causing to the Earth and its people as long as they receive money.


VOCAB
-settler-colonialism: a form of colonialism that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that eventually takes over.
-Privatization: the act of transferring an industry from the public sector to the private sector. 
- Vignette: ( in the article's context) a brief description, account, or episode of  a thought or emotion evoking moment