International Women's Day

International Women’s Day 2025: Women of the Four Directions, Women’s Voices Across Time for Future Generations

Our focus today is Land and Water Protection. Native American Indigenous People have long believed that we should be thinking of the Generations to come and of our Ancestors who came before us. Today we will be hearing Native American Indigenous Women from across the United States. They each will be sharing their concerns about how we are treating Mother Earth and what we can do Together to protect Her.

Part 1 of this 2 part series profiles Native Women that are Walking, Praying, and Educating their communities on the realities of living in the Nuclear Fuel Chain. 

Listen to the women that are fighting the uranium contamination on their lands from where it is taken out of the ground in the southwest to where it is stored in the east.

Then travel to the Bay Area where it is used at Livermore labs in California at the risk to the local community.

Then the work that is being done to stop nuclear weapons by the international community at the UN.

Interviewees include:

Rita Mae Bilagody. from Tuba City, (Dine) Navajo Elder

Shayla Blachford , Navajo, Founder of the Anti Uranium Mapping Project, info@antiuraniummapping project

Becki Jones, Navajo, Program Manage for Native Community Health Network, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Affiliate based out of Albuquerque, becki.jones@pprm.org

Maria Maybee, Seneca, Peace Walk New York

Marylia Kelley, Senior Adviser at Tri-Valley Cares: Communities Against Radioactive Environments, Livermore, Ca

Leona Morgan, Navajo. Founding Member of Haul No, an organization that has been opposed to the mining and transportation of uranium ore on the Navajo Nation.

Haul No has been supporting the women of the Havasupai, Navajo and Ute Nations that are opposed to the mining and transportstopcanyonmine@gmail.com

 

Produced by Morning Star Gali, Loyen Redhawk, & Sabah Williams

Engineered by Cathy Jackson

Songs by Nikki Skinway & Sabah Williams assisted by Deon Lyons



Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Thomas Puggård-Müller Cherry Red After Hours Storyville Records
Celia Cruz Quimbara Walking By Cuba OVC Media
VANRILEY Bleu Web of Lies 1428411 Records DK
Maya Solovéy American Song Maya Solovéy Maya Solovéy