Loove Moore, a native of Oakland, California, talks about why he feels it is his purpose to help people in his community survive and thrive; he does this through collaborative creativity, connecting people to nature, and spreading love and support.
In Huchiun, the Indigenous Lisjan Ohlone lived symbiotically with their ecology. However, less than 260 years later, European colonization, industrialization, and subsequent abandonment have decimated what is now known as West Oakland, leaving the land and its people in urgent need of regeneration.
In our global ReRoot campaigns, we invite co-creation of art, music, and/or performance pieces that encourage people to (a) unlearn perspectives and beliefs that lead to self-deprecation and/or ecocidal/inequitable behaviors and (b) relearn how to understand and express their ecoself.
I was just five months old when — in the middle of the night — a cloud of 27 tons of toxic gases leaked from a US-owned Union Carbide pesticide plant and turned my hometown of Bhopal, India, into an apocalyptic disaster.
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