In the arctic where the Sámi people, an indigenous people in northern Europe, live, has the temperature already risen by 1,5 degrees. If we don´t manage to stop global warming and if climate change is allowed to continue, it means the end of us. 

This yoik came to traditional sámi singer Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska, as she was thinking about the climate change and global warming that threatens the way of life of her people. She will therefor take the yoik with her for the COP21 meeting, which is to be held in Paris later this year. Yoiking is the traditional chanting of the Sámi people. By the yoik you may picture feelings, persons, animals, landscapes, climate and weathers or what ever you want. They yoik can be a really strong power and if we multiply that power together, we can reach all the way into the hearts of the world leaders.

Let´s build pressure towards the politicians negotiating our future - here are two things you can do:

Go to Paris and join the mass action on December 12th: d12.paris

Film yourself performing this yoik and share it widely.

WE SPEAK EARTH!

Disconnectedness, it´s all about that we have lost the connection. Connection with life, the land itself and each other. When we do not have the connection with the Earth, we don´t love, respect or listen to it. The natural world is being destroyed and that is causing even more disconnections.

Because of the thousands of years of symbiosis with the Earth, we still speak “Earth”. We still are in dialogue with the Earth. Earth informs us how to live here. It gives everything we need to survive. According to our knowledge: if nature is not kept healthy, humans don´t survive.

We cannot keep waiting. We have being waiting for too long. The time for change is today and there is no change without protest – so resist, protect, react, mobilize and challenge. How the world will be in the future is up to us, here and now. So listen to us, because we still speak Earth.

Read more at the Fossil Free blog: http://gofossilfree.org/se/skillshare/

"Váldit geađggi gihtii ja doallat dan čorpma siste
dassážii go dat álgá coahkkit, eallit, hupmat ja lihkadit"

Áillohaš
Nils Aslak Valkeapää

"Take a stone in your hand and close your fist around it
until it starts to beat, live, speak and move"

Áillohaš
Nils Aslak Valkeapää

Gulahallat Eatnamiin / WE SPEAK EARTH / Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska

We run for Gironvárri

Some people call this city with its Sámi indigenous name, Giron. Others use the Swedish name, Kiruna. Not too long ago, around a hundred years or so, the city was built on a land that for at least 6000 years has been used by Sámi people. Until the turn of the 20th century the area around Gironvárri - the mountain named after it´s richness of grouses - was used by the sámi people for herding, hunting, collecting food and living their lives. Unfortunately for them under this land lies an enormous amount of iron ore, and since then the area has been an important resource for the Swedish state. Sámi people had to be relocated and assimilated, forced to abandon their livelihood and language.

Gironvárri got it’s name stolen to name the city of Kiruna, and the mountain itself has been ripped to pieces. It has been used to build the wealth of Sweden and amongst other things, the war machinery for the wars to come. During World War II the iron become more important than ever as a resource to be exported abroad, especially to Germany. Flotillas and thousands of tanks were and are still built with iron from the Kiruna area.

The city has continued to mine and dig over the years. It has digged and mined so deep, it has undermined its own stability. The city is cracking underneath. The city has mined itself. This time everyone has to be relocated. The plan is to rebuild the whole city a few kilometers away, a process which has already started and is expected to be completed in 2050. They call it a “city on the move", but even if the people can be relocated, the land remains a wasteland. The water and soil remains polluted, emissions are added to the atmosphere, local and global climate has changed.

We have a huge problem and we are part of the problem. Our decisions today affect not only us, but the generations to come. The mountain Gironvárri is lost, we cannot get it back. But we can learn from history. We must bring history with us to change our present and our future. And we must do it together.

We Speak Earth

Go ledjen čorgeme odne gavdnen boares muitugoartta mu báddenmašidnii. Doppe lei hui ollu suoŋat, nu go dien Tracey Chapman coveršuokŋa masa Káre-Elle Partapuoli čálii jorgalusa. Šuokŋa Lohpidus báddejuvvui hui eŋkelis demon, meastta 7 jagi áigái, justte ovdal galggaimmet algit ráhkadit Välkommen Sápmái skearru. Muhto šattái nie ahte eat goassege bádden lávllaga skerrui. Goit dappe odne lea didjiide Lohpádus! ;-)

Lohpádus - Demo 8:2 - 11.MP3

Jag fick tillåtelse att spela in Lars Loppan Le Pain Riche Leopold Mackhé, när han övade inför en konsert.

Max Mackhé

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