Coming Up From the Roots, a conversation with women leaders at the forefront of the environmental justice movement, will take place at the Brower Center Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. Click here for more information and to buy tickets. Wahleah Johns, Executive Director at Black Mesa Water Coalition,  Vien Truong, Senior Policy Associate at Green for All and Caitlin Sislin, Esq., Advocacy Director of the Women and Land Initiative at Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), will discuss the Navajo Green Jobs victory and the national green jobs movement.

Caitlin will also discuss the work of WEA’s Women and Land Initiative, which unites legal advocates with indigenous women environmental justice leaders to advocate for protection of  sacred sites, environmental health and to work towards energy justice. In 2008, SLFP teamed up with WEA to film the amazing work behind this initiative. You can view the video clip filmed and edited by SLFP staff member Marlo McKenzie here.

SLFP also filmed a meeting between WEA and Jeneda Benally (Diné) from Save the Peaks Coalition. An amazing spokesperson on behalf of protection of the San Francisco peaks, Jeneda shared the history of the battle and the spiritual significance of the mountain in Diné culture. To learn more you can watch the video, read SLFP’s sacred site report or RSVP to events@womensearthalliance.org to check in on a live conference call hosted by WEA’s Weaving the Worlds Conference Call series on Monday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Moderated by Caitlin Sislin, Jeneda Benally and Howard Shanker, Esq., attorney for the Save the Peaks Coalition and principal at The Shanker Law Firm, will discuss the lawsuit Save the Peaks coalition just filed against the United States Forest Service, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  Callers will also learn about the history of legal action in this case, what the Ninth Circuit’s en banc decision means for sacred site protection in the U.S., and the Coalition’s allegations under NEPA.