Talking Water
Talking Water is an offering by Walking Water ...
Walking Water, born from a vision received in Payahuunadü - "the place where the water flows" on the ancestral homelands of the Paiute-Shoshone people - is a project and a prayer that centers water as teacher, guide, and sacred source.
We began as a three-year pilgrimage along the natural and human-made waterways between Mono Lake and Los Angeles, CA, partnering with local and global communities to collectively bear witness to the situation of water in our world. Following the path of water from source to end-user, we witnessed histories and current realities of destruction, violence, harm and extraction. Alongside the stories of grief, we celebrated those of beauty and resilience - possibilities for the healing and regeneration of waters, landscapes, and communities.
We continue to listen to the guidance and orientation of water, for how Walking Water might serve as one tributary within a global and intergenerational movement to restore relations with waters, lands and peoples. We move with the question: what world is possible if human beings devote themselves - personally, politically, spiritually - to that which gives life? We understand how essential it is for us to recognize and honor the leadership of Indigenous peoples and communities of color who have been protecting the waters and the lands from extraction and exploitation for hundreds of years -whose life ways, languages and cultures offer profound teachings for how to grow into right relationship.
A commitment to healing waters asks each of us to find our role in movements that struggle to dismantle oppressive systems that commodify waters, lands and peoples in pursuit of power and profit. And as we carry the dream of justice for waters and peoples alike, we strive to uplift and support those individuals and communities who are "acupuncture points" of healing and possibility, actively living towards that more beautiful and liberated world.
For more info go to: https://walking-water.org
To support the work of Walking Water go to: https://walking-water.org/donate/
Walking Water is a fiscally sponsored project of Weaving Earth
Banner photo by Teena Pugliese
Episodes
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Eleven with Tina Calderon, Teri Red Owl & Kyndall Noah
with Melissa McGill, Kate Morales & Debra Scacco
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Ten with Andy Lipkis
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Nine with Kaytlynn Johnston & Zacarías Bernal
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Eight with Friends of the LA River & Heal the Bay
with Mike Prather
with the Watershed Association
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Seven with LA Dept. of Water and Power & Met. Water District of S. CA
with We the People of Detroit
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Six with Council for Watershed Health
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Five with US Army Corps of Engineers
with Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Four with Urbano Strategies
with Erik Ohlsen
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Three with LA Waterkeeper
with the Walking Water Team
Water Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Two with Andy Lipkis
Water Learning Series: LA - Session One with Tina Calderon, Annie Mendoza, Teri Red Owl & Kyndall Noah
with Erica Diaz
with Andy Lipkis
with Melissa McGill
with Elizabeth K Nguyen, MD
with Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck
with Dr. Rajendra Singh, Kathy Bancroft, Paul Huette & Noah Williams.
