Slide carousel as environmental organizing tool

December 12, 2022 10:07 AM

The Last Great Wilderness slide show (link includes a video recreation of the slide show talk), developed by activists in 1988 and continuously toured for nearly two decades, played a vital role in building alliances between environmentalists and the Gwich’in Nation and in fostering grassroots action to keep oil drills out of the Arctic Refuge.
posted by spamandkimchi (2 comments total)

Wow, I think I saw this at one point! The Arctic Refuge fight has been really important in building ties between environmentalists and indigenous people in a way that doesn't get talked about a lot.
posted by lunasol at 11:32 AM on December 13, 2022

(I should have said "white-led environmental organizations," since many indigenous people are obviously environmentalists)
posted by lunasol at 11:33 AM on December 13, 2022