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Live Stream/Video: We will be screening several short documentaries about environmental devastation in Michigan: “The Echo Maker” discusses sulfide mining on Native American sacred site, Eagle Rock, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We’ll also be showing a few teaser interviews on the corporate and government cover-up of the toxic tar sands spill in the Kalamazoo River. Filmmaker Steve Zieverink and Carl Wassilie visiting from Alaska’s Big Village Network will host the discussion following the screening. Brought to you b y Hypha Films, Center for Water Advocacy and Alaska’s Big Village Network. Donations gratefully accepted to help complete the films. Details on the film “The Echo Maker”: This project to be completed by Hypha Films will share voices of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and other Anishinaabe people located in the region, and focus on the effect of the Kennecott-Rio Tinto Eagle Mine upon the Anishinaabe and their homelands. The video short will build awareness within the KBIC and other tribal and non-Native communities in the region. It will also serve as the first step towards a broader documentary envisioned centered on the Great Lakes Region as a whole and the threat of 19% of the worlds fresh water supply more »

    Rainforest Action Network of Chicago recently screened the film “Split Estate” at multikulti. We later interviewed over skype Lynn Waters of SAFE and she said that many of the people in the film have already passed away due to sickness from the fracking. This has become a pressing issue for Illinois since the gas and oil industry have already bought up properties in Southern Illinois near some of the most major fault lines in the US. There is a push in Illinois to halt the permits that would allow these companies to start fracking in Illinois. Landowners might be surprised to find that property rights only entitle people to own the surface, but that doesn’t include the mineral rights and everything else that lies beneath the surface. The US government gives precedent to mineral rights above surface rights. And so industrial drilling rigs are popping up in people’s backyards around the US and there is nothing that property owners can do about it. The US government will grant mineral rights to companies giving them approval to drill for oil and natural gas right on people’s privately owned land. Essentially these companies have the legal authority to trespass on more »

[RSVP] on facebook. Join us for this years Love Shine Festival for Autism at multikulti. Proceeds from this event benefit The Hope Shine- for autism recovery. (Donations are suggested and super appreciated!) The mission of The Hope Shine is to make the therapeutic interventions that may be necessary for recovery from autism available to everyone regardless of their financial situation and providing education and resources to affected families and the public about autism recovery and prevention, and to support action to end the autism epidemic. From 2-5pm: -art showing of local artists (Maria Tirabassi) -fruit and cheese -wine tasting -live musical entertainment After 5pm join us for Dinner ~only $10 donation~ Nourish your body with our gourmet cuisine including raw/vegan and gluten free options ~fresh juice and alkaline water will flow and the stage will be jammin! We are honored to have Charles Joseph Smith perform with us on piano in between bands. Charles Joseph Smith is an accomplished pianist and composer with BM, MM, and DMA degrees in piano performance, and an inside minor in music theory. Everyone who knows Charles knows the difficulties he has overcome and how passionate he is about music performing. There will be a more »