Posts tagged “Subhanker Banerjee”
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Subhankar Banerjee on TomDispatch: Walking the Waters and Shell Games in the Arctic
August 2, 2012
We are creatures that breath air and walk on land – but what of the waters? Are we too detached to think of them as part of what makes the world tick and swirl? Subhankar Banerjee, editor of Arctic Voices: Resistance at the the Tipping Point, has a great article posted on TomDisptatch, along with an audio interview on the importance of a healthy Arctic, an unfortunately detached reality.Check it all out here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175577/
Tags: Arctic, arctic voices, environment, Subhanker Banerjee, tomdispatch
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Subhanker Banerjee on Democracy Now
July 24, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nWO2GYCYADemocracy Now hosts Subhanker Banerjee, renowned photographer, writer, and activist who has spent the past decade working to conserve the Arctic and raise awareness about human rights and climate change.
“Arctic Alaska has become the most contested land in recent U.S. history. But in addition to oil, natural gas and coal, the arctic is rich in biodiversity, and has been home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years.” —Democracy Now
Banerjee is editor of the newly published book, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Seven Stories Press), and has just won the 2012 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award.
Watch footage of Banerjee’s talk here
Tags: arctic voices, democracy now, Subhanker Banerjee
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Arctic Voices on Truthout: A Call to Act
July 24, 2012
“Native groups have banded together to fight big oil and preserve the cultural continuity that has defined their people for tens of thousands of years. Their reverence for, and connection to, the earth – its animals, water, mountains and land – is beautifully described in ‘Arctic Voices,’ and each essay is as much a prayer as a call to activism.”
Truthout reviews Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point, highlighting the book’s poignant ability to show a reverence for the land we must rejuvenate. The stakes of indigenous cultures and environmental interests run high concerning health of the Arctic’s land and people.
Click here to read the full article
Tags: arctic voices, oil drilling, Subhanker Banerjee, truthout
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“Drilling the Arctic: Are we in a Shell game?”
June 26, 2012
“‘Right now, the biggest battle over the Arctic is the Arctic Ocean. . . Slowly, incrementally, Shell might kill the Arctic Ocean,’ Banerjee warned at a Seattle Arts & Lectures appearance at Seattle Town Hall.Why listen to warnings from these folks? Because they have a record of being right, and because they make a case against all those claims by Big Oil and its political strumpets that fill our TV screens.”
Click here to read more about Subhanker Banerjee’s talk on his new book, Arctic Voices:Resistance at the Tipping Point
Tags: arctic voices, environment, oil drilling, seattle, Shell, Subhanker Banerjee
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Subhankar Banerjee at Town Hall, Seattle
June 13, 2012
Hey Seattle!
Come hear Subhankar Banerjee discuss his book, Arctic Voices, as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures Series. Subhankar is a world-renowned activist, writer, and photogrpaher. In Arctic Voices, he has collected first-person narratives from activists, writers, and researchers addressing the urgency of environmental issues.
Thursday June 21st, 2012, 7:30 – 9 pm
Town Hall, Seattle
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone (206) 652-4255Phone (206) 652-4255
Click here to learn more!
Tickets are $15/$30 at www.lectures.org or 206/621-2230 or at the door beginning at 6 pm.
Tags: arctic voices, lectures, readings, seattle, signings, Subhanker Banerjee