[S-C] Celebrate Greenaction's 7th Year - Premiere of Ward Valley film "Defending the Sacred"

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Dear friends of Greenaction,

PLEASE JOIN US SATURDAY, JANUARY 24TH, AT 7 P.M. FOR A NIGHT OF FILM, MUSIC 
AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCES  TO CELEBRATE GREENACTION'S 7TH YEAR FIGHTING FOR 
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

Premiere of Defending the Sacred, a New Film About the Historic Victory by 
Native American Tribes & Environmental Justice Coalition that Saved Ward 
Valley, the Colorado River and Sacred Indian Lands from a Proposed Nuclear 
Waste Dump

  Event to Celebrate Greenaction's 7th Year Fighting Polluters, 
Environmental Racism and Injustice

  Cultural Performances by Aztec Danza, All Nations Singers, & Dakota 
singer/actor Floyd Westerman

  Saturday, January 24, 2004, 7 p.m.,   Women's Building, 3543-18th Street 
near Valencia, San Francisco


Defending the Sacred is a 24 minute documentary about the historic victory 
by a diverse coalition of Native American Tribes and  environmental 
justice, community, environmental and health groups that saved Ward Valley, 
the Colorado River and sacred Indian lands from a proposed nuclear waste 
dump.  The film tells a moving, informative and inspiring story of how five 
Indian tribes and their allies made a stand to stop plans by the State of 
California and the nuclear industry to build a nuclear waste dump at Ward 
Valley, located 18 miles from the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

  The film includes compelling footage of Indian Elders, traditional 
singers and dancers, and dramatic protest footage from the
113-day occupation of the proposed dump site by tribes and supporters.

  The event will also feature Aztec Danza, the All Nations Singers (Native 
American drum group), and renowned Dakota singer, songwriter and actor 
(Dances With Wolves) Floyd Westerman.  Indigenous and environmental justice 
leaders from across the west will join the celebration.

  The film premiere is part of an evening of culture and music celebrating 
Greenaction's seventh year working in the Bay Area and around the west in 
campaigns for healthy communities and environmental justice.  California 
and Arizona community environmental justice leaders founded Greenaction for 
Health and Environmental Justice in January 1998.  Greenaction's first big 
campaign was to mobilize for and participate in the historic 113 day 
occupation of Ward Valley that led to victory against the dump 
plan.  Greenaction also played leading roles in shutting the IES 
incinerators in East Oakland, the recent victory against the Red Star Yeast 
factory in West Oakland, the fight to close the PG&E Hunters Point power 
plant, and many other community environmental health and justice campaigns.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Greenaction's Indigenous Lands 
Environmental Justice Project.
Tickets are $10-50 or more, sliding scale.

Donations to Greenaction are tax-deductible to the maximum extent allowable 
under the law.