This afternoon in Rita 101 I was able to attend the talk given by Winona LaDuke. I just want to first state my gratitude to the faculty who made it possible to bring her to the College of Charleston and getting the privilege to listen to her talk. I personally enjoyed my time and she is a true inspiration. She presented “The Sitting Bull Plan” which in summary is to become more efficient in our economy. Help fix the infrastructure that needs to be repaired now (Flint Michigan), instead of causing new problems with increasing more unwanted pipelines. She brought up how these corporations are putting these pipelines in low-income communities and not in white ones. This relates to the environmental injustice that has been discussing in our class with the Warren County PCB landfill. Another cool thing I learned is about the plant, hemp! No not THC but the plant itself can be used to make more sustainable clothing articles. Limiting the chemicals that we put into our waters. Not only with clothing articles, but hemp and be made into biodegradable plastic. We have these obtainable solutions they just are not being put to use. Lastly, I want to leave off with this one last thing Winona LaDuke said throughout her presentation and that is “no time is like the present”.

This is a picture shown durning the talk f the biodegradable hemp water bottle

and this is a photo of her I took durning her talk.