>> women changemakakers aroundne worlrld. mother and daughter filmmakers. these inspiring women.

>> independent of each other, there is an uprising happening on every continent around the world in response to the injustices against the earth. of a morere of a few sane and just world, spurred on by the numbers of inindividuals who recognize the necessity for change. these women lead us into a joururney fililled with storis that inspire us and challenge us to create change, support and respect t all life. leaders inbeen recognizing there wewere probles and understanding there are solulutions around environmentalism andnd being pat of that change. today the environmental momovement is made up of women. >> you can i impact a nation. we feel empowered.

the world is stroke. if we are healthy, the world is healthy. ♪ of f fun a lot selelecting the e women in this film and we had a number of criteria. we are looking for all ages so we had a woman in her mid-20's and one over 80. we had to focus in on who we believed were really out there making a statement and using their voice to great chchange. , theis really shows that coconcerns of wowoman infrfrica andd in americica and in e ecuar arare very simimilar at core.

we are concerned about the next generation. we concerned about the planet we live on and what is goingg to happen. we are concerneded about clean r and clean waterer and how w we e going to find ourr food sourcess and how we are going to feed our children and feeeed them they grow up to be healthy. ♪ >> when it comes to the disappearance of water willl it is the women who d do the strugglele. the founder of a farm in india is standing up for the rights of farmers and water. she was inspired by the chp coal women whose current saved their community. they are essential to feeding

their families. she follows in their fooootstep. asrecognizing the earth each time we so the crop, we know we need the corporation -- corporation of the soil. the next step.us every culture in indndia. >> if you talk about farming in india, it is mostly the women. they are the backbone. it is women who are looking after. , werehe women started using -- we werere losing our

environment. it will be toooo late tomorrow. making food banks. these are not owned byy a any businesseses, it is owned by committees. there are e beekeepers. , we are alsoerving multiplying this. these food banks are really helpful in making a s self- sufficient. heroiness are on the screen. i was drawawn to their stories

because tthey are voices that te not t normally h heard. we e set of male influences thhroughout the environmentatal movement and most of the momovement and these are womemen andnd minority y won talking ababout what we are doig to the earth and how it is affecting them, their communities, and theirir childr. >> we e want them toto be enere, papassionate, to be e ready to o and find their own leaeadershipp strengngth and to put in that to work on behalf of the planet. ♪ >> we are all in this together when we arere talking aboutut te environmental issues we are facing on this pnet. this is what makes t these women special l because they transcend all of that.

it is not who we are or where we come from, it is about hohowe will leave this planet for the next generation. ♪ >> as she struggles, she stands --to save the indigenous that was passed down by her tribe. her passion and her ability to fight injujustice is transformig her community. >> we are here on the reservation. and we live here in this aria for about 9000 years or so. to go to who follow the place where the food growth is on the water. . am working on my dress we have a lot of different ways

to dr. our people. they have a significant role in our community. it is those who keep our cultural practices are those who are essential to decision- making, those in charge of water. we have our own ceremony. i try to do my best being a woman in this millennium. it is different than being a woman before. it is challenging. american society is about the individual, separate from the natural world. is the perception that somehow we are smarter. have to work on it because therere will be a fix.

i do not consider myself an activist, i consider myself a responsible person. the reality is we have this privilege of being people who can save mountaintops. we can save a whole species. from damaging a river. it is a big privilege to be the one who can do that. my community here is wealthy. we have good land. we have a lot of fish and dear and wildlife. i did not realize the significance of that until modification. we are restoring this. a lot of our traditional foods are strong and they predate industrial fertilizers.

usually we fertilized with what we have. fish and different things. a lot of our people have diabetes in our community. it is been a rough transition from a traditional system to an industrial system. i i want to restore our food. it is the foundation of our health. i am trying to read localized that for our economy. i am trying to keep it here and keep it healthy. enough foodto grow to feed our community. right now loma -- now, we're operating programs. that program provides. you need a green economy.

that is not transported d 1500 miles. we need local energy and you not -- and you're not addicted to other powers. you become responsible. you take responsibility. we did a study a couple of years ago that a portion of our people spend a quarter of their economy on energy. a lot of the work is how to be local. how to great intellectual property. it will ensure you have a local economy. and we began to look at wind. we have wind on our reservation. we start working on it in 2003.

weft put up about five. ♪ someone down the road asked how did you do that. we have the foundation and a crane and we put it up. they asked if we could help them. ♪ > the main n thing the drives these womenn h his passion and commitmentnt to the earth. they love to get their fingers into it. they love to make a difference. they l love to work from a posisition of whwhere they a ard make somethingng better than it was. i do not know that they have something that is different from everyone else. i think that it's a seed that is planted in all of us, that given the right water and thehe rightt

motivation and inspiration we can all become leaders like that, from our own perspective. and i think thatat is the b beay of watatching these women. i think it is one oof the things thatat people grgravitate t to s film, because e they can see themselves and they cann say, well, if she can do that, i can do that. >> whether w we like it t or no, sometimes it is as women -- it takekes us womenen to start in e that changnge, if for no other rereason, thenen to start t with ourselves first, then our children and our families.s. it is by design. we are m made that wayay. and if our heart is in it,t, you cannot stop us. we are a force to be reckoned with. we just have to believe that we hahave enough h power to get it donene.

if you get a woman like that, you better helper or get out of her way y -- help her or r get t of her way. but in new york city, another hub for urban agriculture, transforming the south bronx into a place where the streets are filling with the sounds of environmental justice, green collar jobs, and sustainability. >> i find it fascinating that during world war ii, 40% of american food production was actually grown in victory gardens. people were growing it in their window boxes, for yards, in pots on their fire escapes. 40% of food production. that is how we ate. i am very disturbed by the fact that our current agricultural system, federally funded most of it, creates the kind of problems that we see right now, the fact that corn and soybeans are so

heavily subsidized that it is the basis of much of the unhealthy food that you find, especially in the portland -- communities around the country. -- in the poorer communities ♪round the country. >> hiperlan -- hi! >> [children singing] ♪ >> this place is so, so very special to me, and even more special when there is lots of beautiful children. i saw you before you all sat down so orderly, and i noticed you were all playing. that is exactly why wanted to make sure there were something like this in this neighborhood.

this was a doubt. and if it had not been for my big dog, about 80 pounds, who pulled me into this place. i was afraid to come in, but i had a big dog. and i realized, this is our ♪aterfront. the question was, how did it feel, i guess, for me when families started to come and spend time in this park, it made me feel really good. there were not many places like this before. we were considered a place where nothing very good or beautiful could be. so to build this place and have people come and be happy in it, i'd made me feel like i had done the right thing. people from outside our community often thought of those inside the community has not dedeserving and that wewe wouldt

notice if we did not have anything nice. and i knew that if we built beautiful things, we would treat them nicely and we would treat each other nicely.y. that is s why i wanted to build it. my favorite part is in the middle where they look like these little canoes and boats. they are based on the folks that used to live here many years ago. they were indians, the original people in this community. long before anyone showed up they were here and lived this amazingly beautiful life. this place used to be so green and lush, and literally, everything through here. and people had a lovely lots and they fished in the waters of lot because they were so abundant, abundant with different kinds of fish. when i look at that, it reminds me of what this community used to be and who was supported and

was loved and worked and were shipped here. and it also reminds me of the fact that our future could be wondererful, too. >> t the centralal thing for mes thatat it just t takes one i ide tinyny idea to s start a movemet thatat sparks change fromom the grassroooots level. if you h have an idea, whetheher you're a woman, , a man, a chil, go with it and see what may come from it. that is what we need. we need to collelectively come together. >> woman, the sun rises and sets on whether you feel the connection between your tears and the toxic rain. the sky is crying. enter craine interrupters, which

are at the criminal level in all specieies, are pololluting thehr througughout the w world from me ganges to the great lakes. this doctor has made it her life work to make the world aware of the danger due to these destructors. she speaks to that of which people are afraid to speak. >> i live e in coloradado, a sml town on the western slope of colorado. i love it here. it was living in this spot -- while living in is that of -- it was while living in this valley that i was inspired to go back toto college a at age 51.. i began toto inspire - -- i bego get inspired to look at low levels of f toxic chemicals in e water.r. i was working at the university of wisconsin under thehe fishers department. over the years, theyey deterermd what fish needed to be restocked inin the greatat lakes because e fish could n not reproduduce ine

great lakes.s. something was wrong i immediately began looking at the wildlilife. we discover those populations of animals around the great lakes were just not doing well. it was at that point i began to realize that thehe kinds off chemicals that w we are gettttig into t the mother animals hahave introduced low levels ofof toxic chemicicals into t the babies.s. that was the beginning of asking the question of what endocrine disruption was. i brought together a v very collecect -- eclectic group of scientists. the e first thing they said is there are a large number of chemicals in the envirironment ththat are in development, not ononly in wildlife, , but in hu. and if we do not abate the by

environmnmental exporere that we see todaday, we will see why dysfunction at the popululation lelevel. that was i in 1990. here we are 20 years later and no chemical has been banned yet. on the day that the doctors told me i could not back to wawashington t to work, gugunden energy corp. announced that they hahad gotten drills for the g gd mesa, , which is the big top war that provivides water r for evee on that side of the valley.. and someonone handed m me the formula a for what t they were g to use when a fact - -- they fracacked, and i r recognizezedt of chemicals, but there was onee i did not recognize.

i called my office and said,d, t me everything you can about thts particularar chemical. whenen i began to rere about tht particular chehemica i i knew we were facing serious problems. and a year later, someone called me looking for me by the name of laurura ams. she said, mymy house is within 0 fefeet of a wewell. i developed d a very where -- a very r rare adrenal gland tumor. it was horrible. chills went up andnd down the ek ofof my ne.. i know right where i was when she told me that. it will always be with me. and the woworst part of it was that all the while she was beginning to develop this juror this tumor, she had given birth to her daughter.

what we have discovered is that people immediately begegin to sw all of the symymptoms of exposue to this -- these nasty chemicals that are coming up with the methane in that natural gas. air pollution is the big problem. children especially are vulnerable. ththere's always something g ne. discovery is what keeps people like me going. every day tthere's s something beautiful. yes, there is bad news, , but 's also helping us to try to push policy in the didirection n it s to g go.

it is not a localal problem, , a state problem mowry country problem.m. it is an interernational problb. we should be electing people ththat represent the peoeople ad not the corporations. >> i am m maggie fox and presidt and ceceo of the alliancnce fore climate e protection, which is n organization that t formerice president al gore started in 2006-07. it is to work on the solutions run the climate crisis. the first thing i'd bring g is a cocommitmentnt to d lolove of te earth.h. and the arts as s a sustaining force of life enjoyed -- the earth as a sustaining force ofof life and joy for all things. and ththat bring a p passion for advocacacy and change as actionn ththe part of citizens a and indidividuals. and thenen i like toto bring pee

togegether. the fundamental precepts of that is not the win-lose paradigm, but that together we win. thatat means all sidedes first e to understand each other a and then find a shared solution. women do that intuitivively, whether we are raising children or running corporations oror runnining advocacy organizatatis or running missionons. that is who we are and that is how we lead. >> to all ofof us out there it s titime we all heldld our handsds together, regardleless of our race, hard drive, our background, or our history -- our race, tried, background, or history. >> it just becauause it's direcy women were excluded, it is in

our hands to c create another history in n which we incnclude ourselves and not in which we can'n't t -- reconnect with the >> itrer forces of the e earth. is time to be respectful. all of your organizations, whether they enhance or wings or roroots, be honest and courageos ♪nd caring and compassionate.

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