The Turtle Island Project in northern Michigan was founded in August 2007 by two Midwest pastors who believe the future of mankind and world is at a More

The Turtle Island Project in northern Michigan was founded in August 2007 by two Midwest pastors who believe the future of mankind and world is at a crossroads. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns believe that Christians could learn a lot about nature and the environment by listening to Earth-based cultures like Native Americans, Celts, and other Indigenous peoples. Rev. Hubbard is a Lutheran pastor, and Rev. Cairns is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. Both have extensive backgrounds in interfaith and multicultural work. The Turtle Island Project (TIP), based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, promotes respect for the environment and Native Americans. Two Midwest pastors created the TIP to foster a national discussion and debate on a wide variety of issues involving the future of the planet and mankind including encouraging Christians to learn how to appreciate nature like Earth-based religions such as American Indians, Celts and other Indigenous peoples. Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has more on the founders and their goals. Time:9:50 ------- White Buffalo Calf Woman Society: http://www.wbcws.org --- Turtle Island Project related websites: Turtle Island Project main website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Turtle Island TV (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ Turtle Island TV (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse Turtle Island (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/ email: TurtleIslandProject@charter.net --- Rate of Species Extinction: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rate+of+species+extinction&btnG=Google+Search http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/31_olsond_biodiversity/ http://www.iucn.org/themes/Ssc/red_list_2004/Extinction_media_brief_2004.pdf http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2001_2005/press/species2000.html http://www.earthportals.com/extinct.html http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Species_Extinction/ --- Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore: http://www.climatecrisis.net/ http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-global-warming.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/ --- Existentialist Theology of Paul Tillich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=169 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Kairos An artistic representation of Kairos by Francesco Salviati: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Francesco_Salviati_005.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_content?page=590630&sp=1018&event=1018 Paul Tillich's gravestone in the Paul Tillich Park, New Harmony, Indiana: (Tillich died in Chicago in 1965. A park was named after him in New Harmony, Indiana, where his ashes were interred.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul_Johannes_Tillich%27s_gravestone_in_the_Paul_Tillich_Park%2C_New_Harmony%2C_Indiana.jpg http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/9706/Default.aspx http://www.quodlibet.net/stephens-luther.shtml Rosebud Tribe official website: http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/ 1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident Pine Ridge Reservation Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation Pine Ridge shocking photos: http://www.aaronhuey.com/ -------
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STEALING A NATION (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and More

STEALING A NATION (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Stealing a Nation has won both the Royal Television Society's top award as Britain's best documentary in 2004-5, and a 'Chris Award' at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. A brochure of the film is available at www.bullfrogfilms.com/guides/stealguide.pdf. On April 8, 2008, the Chagos Islanders have launched a national Campaign for Resettlement of their islands: please visit www.letthemreturn.com. More information and updates on the plight of the Chagossians are available on the website of the UK Chagos Support Association at www.chagossupport.org.uk.
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