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WINGS
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
APPPL, Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live, is a grassroots organization formed in 2016 to protect North Carolina and her people. For two weeks in March 2017, they walked 200 miles along the route planned for a fracked gas pipeline to warn and unify against violations of native rights, forced land seizures and damage to farmland, health and environmental hazards, and the creation of “sacrifice zones” targeted on poor people and people of color. Also heard in this program, two speakers from a Native Nations Rise rally held in Washington, D.C. against Dakota Access pipeline approval.
Featuring:
Speakers in North Carolina: Ericka Faircloth of the Lumbee Tribe, speaking for the Coalition of Woodland Nations; Connie Leeper, an organizer with the environmental group NC WARN; Barbara Exum, representing a cohesive African American community where land is being commandeered for the pipeline; Emmy Wyman, rally emcee; Emily Saba, 20, a college student from Charlotte. Speakers in Washington DC: Helena Wong from the group It Takes Roots, and Fawn Sharp, President of the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington State.
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.
