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Meet Don Ackerman
Don Ackerman is a legend in Ottawa County, OK and you haven’t known it. What he did has cost EPA millions of dollars and will cost even more in the decades to come. Those dollars all spent to protect our children from lead poisoning. The lead was found in school yards, parks and residential front and backyards, all being dug up and removed and replaced with clean lead-free soil. Don put this action into motion. We will be forever grateful and will continue to tell this story
Rebecca Jim
Apr 294 min read
What Could Have Been
Random. I attended the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this weekend that was held at the Circle
Cinema in Tulsa, OK. After hauling bags packed with LEAD Agency schmuck in from the rain I
quickly began laying information out on the last available table. Handouts, flyers, a box of PINS,
newsletters and the print we are selling chances on for Gary & Kimie Calcagno who lost their
home in Stillwater to the fire recently. The first person to stop as I was laying things out looked
Rebecca Jim
Apr 213 min read
Leaders Standing for Justice
All these years later, we are still waiting for it, for the cleanup you all deserve. The environment waits. The water waits...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 83 min read
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The Great Conjunction
“Justice is calling people to action,”
Rebecca Jim
Feb 183 min read
You Did It
Let’s use your new found skills and ask DEQ to demand a public meeting on the efforts to protect us from the toxins that have been lying ben
Rebecca Jim
Jan 273 min read
A Cold January Day
Carter will be remembered that he waged peace not war. And that he added solar panels to the White House and wore a sweater if the...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 123 min read
Wood for the fire
We always heard that wood warms you 3 times, to cut it, stack it and then to finally burn it
Rebecca Jim
Dec 16, 20243 min read
Matt Black Came
We will have all felt his intentions both visually as well as spiritually are true. His photographs stem from the enduring legacy of the Gre
Rebecca Jim
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Numbers Add Up
Thirty-five youth, 5 from 7 different tribes, tribes that claim harm from the success profitable mining brought to companies that gouged...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 17, 20243 min read
Through the Bump Gate
A ”bump gate” is a drive-through gate used in rural areas to provide a barrier to livestock but does not require the driver to exit the...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 11, 20243 min read
Dream – Dream - Dream
The year All I have to Do is Dream, the song by the Everly Brothers came out I was 9 years old and attending 4th grade at College...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 4, 20242 min read
What if it Mattered?
I have been so very proud of your actions to write to FERC and let them know how you feel and tell them YOU DO NOT want to FLOOD! Your...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 9, 20243 min read
There at Hell’s Gate
Loren Waters’ film Meet Me at the Creek ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ world premiered last month. Her film is a story of hope. We attended the Big Sky...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 22, 20243 min read
Bearing Witness
During the summer of 1964 Freedom Riders trained at Western University, which is now the white bricked portion of Miami University. It...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20244 min read
What You Don’t See
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau Paul, Stephanie and I walked and knocked and talked...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 5, 20243 min read
And Then You Win
We are left with questions. What will happen now? And when does NOW begin? What will the new normal be? Two important announcements were...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 23, 20244 min read
Hacked to Death
“It is not so much for the Beauty that the forest makes a claim upon man’s hearts, as for that subtle something, quality of the air that...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 16, 20244 min read
Eye Opening Report
Karman King began by going over the highlights of her resume, from being the aquatic toxicologist during the Exxon Valdez spill to her 35...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 5, 20243 min read
Summing up the Summit
EPA’s Region 6 2-Day Environmental Justice Summit was held by zoom and I was invited to present during the first afternoon session. All...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 24, 20233 min read
It’s a Picher Perfect Day
What’s that mean? How could it translate into a Thriller, Horror, or a Musical? There is a great deal of interest in Picher. What it was....
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20233 min read
We Start as Water
No other words would have been appropriate for starting the 25th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference. The words begin the poem by...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 18, 20233 min read
Work and Play
New friends see this place with new eyes. They pose the questions we no longer ask, having received only silence decades before. I made...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 4, 20233 min read
A Random Photograph
The 1968 photograph showed me standing on the edge of a roadway somewhere in west Texas. I had caught a ride overnight in a semi owned by...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 7, 20233 min read
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