EVENTS
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, 10am CT
Zoom Community Meeting
The Campaign To Protect The Penokees
Everyone is invited to attend our virtual community Zoom meetings.
In this presentation, Nick Vander Puy, storyteller and author of the book Water Protectors: the H.E.L.P. Campaign to Save the Penokees, will discuss his experiences and share excerpts of his writing.
Drawn from firsthand, independent reporting, this book presents the story of how a coalition of tribal citizens, environmentalists and neighbors, known as the Harvest Education Learning Project, founded the H.E.L.P. Camp and occupied treaty protected lands in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin during the coldest winter of the past century, 2013-2014. Their act of civil disobedience successfully halted a multinational mineral corporation’s plan for mountaintop removal mining in the Lake Superior watershed, a project that would have caused catastrophic environmental damage to Lake Superior and dire cultural consequences for the adjacent Indigenous communities. In the years since, the H.E.L.P. camp’s work has continued to serve as a powerful inspiration in the region for grassroots activism and community resistance to environmental, economic and cultural exploitation.
Register for the meeting to receive the Zoom link at https://tamarackwateralliance.org/php/eventreg.php?eid=16 or Contact Us.