Earth Day is coming up fast!! Carrie's favorite holiday!
We are going to join together in solidarity this Saturday, April 19th at Circle Cinema Presents: Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour - building community and sharing information - learning together more about how we can reject and prevent the destruction of our home world, Mother Earth, as we celebrate our connection to the planet and to each other! So we'll be having our uniquely beautiful day of citizen action! Please join us! There will be many opportunities:
Electronic Synergy Foundation will be on site in the back lot of the Circle from 8 AM on for you to bring your old or non-working electronics to be safely recycled - check out their link for details.
Many community environmental organizations will be present in the lobby to talk with you about the things we can do to help protect and restore the balance of nature including The Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Tulsa Area Arkansas River Advocates, L.E.A.D. Agency, Inc., Spring Creek Coalition, Green Country Sierra Club, Tulsa Peace Fellowship, Green Country Guardians, and wonderful Earth Cantered Art Show featured in the Circle Gallery with beautiful creations by some of Tulsa finest artists. There will be music for Peace, the People, and the Planet by The Mother Earth String Band and Choir!
We'll have lite bites and the incredible Honduran cuisine of our friends Comida, Sol, y Vida food truck! A fantastic event we have planned for you and we hope you all will be able to be with us! Tickets to the Film Festival are available with the Circle Cinema link above. The lobby events and outdoor opportunities are free and open to the community. We look forward to sharing these beautiful films with you all! Community activism is the best solution to challenging times! We welcome you to join us. See you Saturday!
• Circle Cinema Ticketing Link
• Wild & Scenic Film Screening List
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Citizens of Oklahoma and the world will forever be indebted to Carrie Barefoot Dickerson for leading the efforts to make northeastern Oklahoma safer for future generations. In May 1973, Aunt Carrie, as she was known by her many supporters and friends, read a news article about Public Service of Oklahoma's plans to build the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant near Inola, about 15 miles from Tulsa and a few miles from the Dickerson family farm. Recalling reports she had read earlier of wildlife birth defects coincident with effluent from the WWII Manhattan Project, she researched the current efforts to build nuclear power facilities. What she learned frightened and concerned her so much that despite her lack of political and publicity experience, she held a news conference at which she announced the formation of the political action group Citizens' Action for Safe Energy (CASE). Aunt Carrie and CASE, with co-chair Ilene Younghein of Oklahoma City, began an expensive but determined battle to educate the public and stop construction of the plant. Following her lead, other anti-nuclear organizations were formed in the area, and citizens from all walks of life and ethnic groups joined in the battle. After a nine-year struggle, PSO announced on Feb. 16, 1982, that they would not build the Black Fox facility. Black Fox was the only nuclear power plant to be cancelled by a combination of legal and citizen action after construction had started. (read more) |
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