Message From the Amazon: Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance host indigenous leaders with a message from the heart of the rainforest
A Call From the Amazon
Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)
A Call From the Amazon (lunchtime presentation and discussion at Indigenous Forum)
Learn more about the vision to defend the Yasuni National Park and indigenous territories threatened by oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond. With: Franco Viteri, Kichwa from Sarayaku, Ecuador and President of Governing Body of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuadorian Amazon (GONAE); Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch Executive Director and Yasuni Ambassador; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Amazon Watch Program Director, and others TBA.
Standing on Sacred Ground, Parts 1 and 2
Introduced by director Toby McLeod – At 8:55 PM
We will get to see the first two installments in this four-part film series about indigenous cultures fighting to protect their sacred lands for future generations. Episode 1, “Pilgrims and Tourists” tracks Russian shamans and a northern California tribe as they each confront massive government projects. Episode 2, “Profit and Loss” highlights resistance to destructive extraction projects in Papua New Guinea and in Alberta, Canada’s Tar Sands.
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
Introduced by director Gay Dillingham – Starts at 8:45 PM
Gay Dillingham offers a short clip from this nearly finished film that captured one last intimate conversation between these two bigger-than-life figures just a few months before Leary’s death, as they pondered life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death. It’s a deeply touching portrait of two very complex, controversial characters whose epic friendship helped shape a generation.
Better This World
Introduced by directors Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
This extraordinary, multiple award-winning film shows us how two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wound up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the dark heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.
Caroline Casey: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture!
Caroline Casey with guest Richard Tarnas: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture! Calling All Public Dreamers 8:44pm – 9:45pm. The Visionary Activist Show radio host and stand-up astrologer invokes the “Green Fire of Reverent Indigenuity Rising from the Rubble — that we be agents of responsive cool in a hot reactive world.” Caroline welcomes long-time ally Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed book “Cosmos and Psyche” together animating the astro*mytho guiding meta-story that we may form a collaborative alliance with the desirable future. The event will be filmed for the motion picture “Startracks.”
This session is included with all Bioneers registrants including; 1, 2, and 3 day tickets as well as half day tickets. If you would like to attend Caroline Casey's session and have not registered for one of the Bioneers passes you may indenpentenly register for this session here: https://www.regonline.com/casey2013
Seed Exchange
Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo Farm, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.
