This will be a series of videos focused on the human and environmental health impacts of frac-sand mining in Wisconsin’s “driftless” or “coulee region” (also extending farther to the north from the usual bounds of that region).

Many of these focus on the work of Dr. Crispin Pierce at UW-Eau Claire, who is doing the work that Wisconsin DNR should be doing, but is not doing, because Wisconsin is “open for business” in their view, and the DNR see their job as being to be a permitting rubber-stamp agency for giant corporations wishing to use Wisconsin land and resources.

Tour de Frac-Sands in the environmental public health laboratory, with Dr. Pierce, undergrad students Peng Xiong-Vang and Ethan Fuhrman. September 13, 2015.

More from Tour de Frac-Sands in the environmental public health laboratory, with Dr. Pierce, undergrad students Peng Xiong-Vang and Ethan Fuhrman. September 13, 2015.
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More from Tour de Frac-Sands in the environmental public health laboratory, with Dr. Pierce, undergrad students Peng Xiong-Vang and Ethan Fuhrman. September 13, 2015.
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Earlier Videos from Midwest Renewable Energy Fair, June 19, 2015

Airborne Frac-Sand Monitoring
with Dr. Pierce and Ethan Fuhrman of UW-EC
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Airborne Frac-Sand Health Risks
with Dr. Pierce and Ethan Fuhrman of UW-EC
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Airborne Frac-Sand Health Risks
with Dr. Pierce and Ethan Fuhrman of UW-EC
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Airborne Frac-Sand Health Risks
with Dr. Pierce and Ethan Fuhrman of UW-EC
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Source: Sand Dollars change folks in Hixton Township’s Frac Sand Industry Sacrifice Zone

Here are some short videos of Jimmy Betts’s workshop with 350-Stevens Point, on Nov. 9 2015. Lots of membership Q & A and participation was great.

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The Intros: What’s your name, and a short phrase describing something you think contributes to climate change

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Q & A: Is a University system a contributor to climate change?

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Land ownership, the Commons, large-scale agriculture vs. small-scale agriculture in the climate change picture

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What about University Foundation divestment (from fossil fuels)?

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Published on Nov 16, 2015
A tactic used in the fight for NO NEW PERMITS for fossil fuels projects from the Federal Energy Regulatory Capture agency (FERC)
https://youtu.be/XwZJ1uiWKMI

Published on Nov 16, 2015
Climate justice activist Jimmy Betts deals with the giant elephant in the room, racism.

On Oct. 24-25, 2015, Paul Cienfuegos of Community Rights Network gave a well-attended weekend workshop at Washburn, WI. Here are 6 short videos from the report back to 350-Stevens Point, an affiliate of the national group 350-dot-org which is a local affiliate with all student leadership at UW-Stevens Point, but also includes the community. It is a joint campus-community affiliate.

Community Rights is based on an understanding of how individual and community rights have been steadily eroded since the founding of the United States, gradually being lost to the institution of “corporate personhood.” It suggests a set of strategy and tactics to regain these individual and community rights. Perhaps this approach can be one set of tools in your local movement-building.

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overview of the timeline of “corporate personhood/people lose rights”

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Timeline of “corporate personhood/people lose rights”

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timeline of “corporate free speech/Citizens United/’harm by permit’ ”

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Total loss of community rights—Benton Harbor, MI—case of Rev. Pinkney

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Lenore’s rap on solidarity—in the Climate Justice Movement

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Change the big picture from below