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Advocacy Groups Host Free Screenings of Nuclear Waste Documentary ‘To Use a Mountain’ in Parsons and Kansas City
Community advocacy organizations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are teaming up to host free public screenings of the award-winning documentary, “To Use a Mountain,” in order to highlight the growing push for nuclear energy throughout the Tri-State region.
The documentary will be screened at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 11 at the Municipal Theater, 112 S. 17th St. in Parsons, Kan. and at 7pm on Sunday, July 12 at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd. in Kansas City,
Kim Barker
4 days ago4 min read
Made the List
These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.
Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read
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Advocacy Groups Host Free Screenings of Nuclear Waste Documentary ‘To Use a Mountain’ in Parsons and Kansas City
Community advocacy organizations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are teaming up to host free public screenings of the award-winning documentary, “To Use a Mountain,” in order to highlight the growing push for nuclear energy throughout the Tri-State region.
The documentary will be screened at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 11 at the Municipal Theater, 112 S. 17th St. in Parsons, Kan. and at 7pm on Sunday, July 12 at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd. in Kansas City,
Kim Barker
4 days ago4 min read
Made the List
These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.
Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read
JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
Flossie and Grey
The little woman who was my down-the-alley neighbor turned 100 this year. After she sold her home she moved into Neosho Ridge housing. Her daughter gave me Flossie’s address. I really didn’t need it. I could have walked the neighborhood and known her place. It was the one with Egyptian Walking Onions Allium Cepa Viviparum in pots out front. These “green onions” go to seed, form small onion clusters and when too heavy for the stalk, they fall over and walk all over your gard
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
LEAD Agency’s summer camp offers music and outdoor exploration opportunities
Limited spots remain for Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD)
Agency’s summer camp that offers students in Northeast Oklahoma a one-of-a-kind experience
combining music and art with environmental education and outdoor exploration.
The day-camp is slated for June 8-11 at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College. Campers will
have the opportunity to play different instruments including a drumkit, bass, electric guitar, as
well as explore photography, art and design. No mu
Kim Barker
Mar 32 min read
Twice Loved
How do we change the world? We do it when we help others learn how.
Rebecca Jim
Feb 283 min read
Slow Train Wreck
Lead poisoning kicked this off, then the knowledge and understanding that the land beneath whole parts of our county put anyone there in danger. Both were the un-seen threats. The un-seen moved governments to action, mostly for people who were and may still feel no gratitude.
Rebecca Jim
Feb 184 min read
The Indian in Me
There was a phrase I heard used by my mother’s mother. Maude Bradshaw. She was my size, and my mother’s size, so of course I deemed her my Little Grandma. Maude was a stern mother to her 6 children. Her words became legendary in our family and many of her practical ways are part of my life. My Big Grandma was Cherokee and was a big woman, who I never heard claim knowledge from her heritage. Not like my Little Grandma who had a single black braid that when it wasn’t wrapped ar
Rebecca Jim
Feb 123 min read
LEAD Agency and OFX to screen ‘Silkwood’ with panel discussion on Feb. 10
he Oklahoma Film Exchange and Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency, Inc. are hosting a screening of the film, “Silkwood,” followed by a panel discussion at 6pm on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 701 W Sheridan Ave. in Oklahoma City.
Ticket admission is donation based and will be first-come, first-served seating. Doors will open 45 minutes prior to 6pm. A panel discussion featuring special guests will follow the screening. The audience will learn about Oklahoma’s history o
Kim Barker
Jan 303 min read
Broken Record
We want a clean Tar Creek that won’t poison our land, our fish, and our hopes for the future.
Rebecca Jim
Jan 33 min read
Off to the East
Off to the east, the sun was shining on the small set of cattle just across the fence line, the light there and the darkening setting in where I stood seeing them become the image of what the rancher sees as money growing on the plain and I saw as the image my father and his father would have seen as the cattlemen they both were for times during their lives.
Rebecca Jim
Dec 16, 20253 min read
The Desk not the Table
"use the years we are gifted to do more with our lives. Fill yours, reach out and connect with a child, do more than sit out your years. I will suggest you find a table and gather your people around it and decide to change the world."
Rebecca Jim
Dec 11, 20253 min read
Rising Star & Mexican Water
I spent an afternoon with a rising star film maker and the stars she has created, reluctant me and Dana Tiger , absolutely delighting in every moment of the attention. Jane Breckinridge asked us to come to the Euchee Butterfly Farm outside Bixby, OK to screen both of Loren Waters’ short documentaries, Meet Me at the Creek and her latest film, Tiger and to sit for a panel discussion after the viewings. The afternoon’s event began with Creek tribal hymns sung a Capela. I becam
Rebecca Jim
Dec 2, 20253 min read
Reclaiming our Water
“It takes all of us to make a difference for all of us.”
Rebecca Jim
Nov 20, 20253 min read
Piney Woods
Out here on the land I am taking back to tallgrass prairie, the electric company and the pine bark beetles are both taking their roles seriously to help in that endeavor
Rebecca Jim
Nov 12, 20253 min read
Nominated by Grace
At the annual Oklahoma Native American Elder Honor celebration, I joined 48 others from 23 Oklahoma tribes to be recognized this year. It was held at the First Americans Museum
Rebecca Jim
Nov 8, 20254 min read
A Sounding
It was a sound event I was allowed to host, on land being stewarded so differently than the places the group had spent so much time experiencing during the last year
Rebecca Jim
Nov 6, 20253 min read
Jonny’s Gifts
When I met Jonny Skye , the Peoria tribal citizen, she allowed LEAD to choose one of her paintings to visually represent this year’s Tar Creek Conference, only to discover the title “It is in the Water” would also serve as our theme. The other paintings needed to be seen and I was pleased when she agreed to allowing us to host an art show for the public. Downtown Miami came to life one night this week at the time most towns close up. LEAD Agency held space open to the public
leadagency
Oct 29, 20253 min read
Reflecting on the 27th Tar Creek Conference
Earlier this month, LEAD Agency held our 27th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference on Oct. 7, 8 and 9 at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami.
To kick off this year’s conference, on October 4 we co-hosted an inaugural disc golf tournament, the Tar Creek Open, at the Veterans Memorial Disc Golf Course, located near Tar Creek in what used to be a residential neighborhood before residents were forced to move due to repeated flooding. It’s been our dream for many
Kim Barker
Oct 23, 20253 min read
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