Dear Friends and Friends of Friends,

Winona LaDuke speaks to raise funds for Wind Turbines on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Honor the Earth's Energy Justice Initiative to support alternative energy-and especially, wind power-in Native America. "Native people have borne the brunt of America's past energy policy, from uranium mining in the southwest to massive hydro-electric projects in the sub-arctic. It is time for energy justice, and it is time for a new energy policy," states two-time Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate LaDuke, who serves as Honor the Earth's Program Director.

People attending the benefit may also benefit from swimming in a non-toxic pool cleaned with hydrogen peroxide which oxygenates the body. Bring your towels. It's a chance to see our PV (photovoltaic) system in action. Solar hot water is also designed to bring self-sufficiency as well as sustainable living. With today's blackouts and energy crisis, this clean, safe technology must be considered. "We will explain how Governor Pataki is helping make New York number one in solar with rebates and low cost loans. One of the Woodstock Museum's greatest mission is to educate people in this area", says Shelli Lipton, Director of the Museum.

Picnic on the museum lawn. Pack it in and pack it out. Movies brought by Winona will be shown in the Woodstock Museum multimedia theater with surround-a-sound and bare feet. We have sandals for those of you who are clueless to shoeless.

Winona LaDuke, is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children. Winona is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. Leading Honor the Earth, she provides vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation, over land rights in the 1980's. In 1989, she received the Reebok Human Rights Award with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time Magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and has also been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the Ann Bancroft Award, MS Woman of the Year Award (with the Indigo Girls in 1997), the Global Green Award, and numerous other honors. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Her books include: Last Standing Woman (fiction), All Our Relations (non-fiction), In the Sugarbush (Children's), and just out, The Winona LaDuke Reader.

With the net proceeds from this event, the Energy Justice Initiative will provide capital and technical support for wind projects on Great Plains reservations while continuing the fight against culturally and ecologically destructive energy projects. Today, presently installed U.S. electrical capacity is at 600 gigawatts of power. The wind potential of 23 Native nations in the Great Plains alone is about 300 gigawatts. "Our communities could power this country with wind. Financing wind energy in the economically poorest communities in the country is Energy Justice," explains LaDuke. Check her website: www.honorearth.org

Directions to Woodstock Museum from Woodstock: Take West Saugerties Rd. to the end (5 miles). At the stop sign make a right. And then another right on Bach Rd. opposite Andrew's Sugar Shack. Go in about 60 ft. and make the left at the Woodstock Museum sign. Directions from other areas: www.WoodstockMuseum.org/directions.html

Admission is $10. Checks are tax deductible and payable to Tide Foundation/Honor the Earth.