WOMENS HISTORY MONTH PRESENTATION

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2009 National Women's History Month honors women
who have taken the lead in the environmental or
"green" movement.
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Mollie Beattie 1947-1996 The first woman to
head the US Fish Wildlife Service She oversaw
the successful reintroduction of the gray wolf
into northern Rocky Mountains. Congress named a
wilderness area in Alaskas Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge in her honor
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• Arlene Blum Bio-Physical Chemist,
  Mountaineer, Environmental Activist. Lead the
  first American, All-Womens ascent of Annapurna.
• Her research was instrumental in banning Tris
  and Fyrol, two cancer causing chemicals used as
  flame retardants on childrens sleepwear, and the
  pesticide DBCP. She is also author of Breaking
  Trailing A Climbing Life.

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Helen Caldicott Physician, Author, Pacifist,
and anti-nuclear activist. She has worked for
over 35 yrs to educate the international
community on the medical and environmental
hazards of the nuclear age. Dr. Caldicott was
named by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the
most influential women of the 20th century for
her work.
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Hillary Clinton Secretary of State and former
US Senator While in the Senate, Clinton worked to
secure federal legislation to protect the
environment both on the Senates Environment and
Public Works Committee and as the senior Democrat
on the Fisheries, Wildlife and Water subcomittee.
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Tammy Cromer-Campbell Photographer, Author,
Filmmaker Ms. Cromer-Campbell documents how
communities struggle with environmental
injustice. It is her hope that revealing these
injustices real change will occur. She created
With Fruit of the Orchard/Environmental Justice
in East Texas as a film and as a book.
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Betsy Damon Artist Ms. Damon, an environmental
artist and activist focusing on water, is the
founder of Keepers of the Waters which supports
collaborations between artists, scientists, and
citizens to restore, preserve and remediate their
water sources. The Living Water Garden and
Olympic Forest Park are two of her most well
known projects.
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Sylvia Alice Earle Oceanographer and
Environmentalist The first woman chief scientist
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. She lead the investigation of
the impact of the burning of Kuwaits oil fields
and the devastation caused by the Exxon Vladez in
Prince William Sound Alaska.
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Jane Goodall Wildlife Researcher, Educator,
and Conservationist Goodall went to Africa to
study chimpanzees and soon became their leading
crusader. Her research work expanded to include
numerous conservation efforts in Africa and
worldwide. Her global non-profit Institute
empowers people to make a difference.
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Amy Goodman Journalist Goodman has interviewed
leaders throughout the world about the pressing
issues of war and peace as well as global warming
and its related impact. Coverage of war and peace
as well as human rights movements have caused her
to brave some of the most intense World crisis.
Her goal as a journalist is to inform her
audience about the threats to the plant.
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Eryn Klosko Assistant Professor, Physical
Sciences Klosko teaches the science of global
warming and sustainability. She spearheaded
Westchester Community Colleges participation in
Focus the Nation 2008. She also advises a club
of students engaged in sustainability efforts.
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Honoring Womens History
Whereas women have made historic contributions
to the growth and strength of our Nation in
countless recorded and unrecorded ways Whereas
women have played a unique role throughout the
history of the Nation by providing the majority
of the volunteer labor force of the
Nation Whereas women served as early leaders in
the forefront of every major progressive social
change movement and Whereas despite these
contributions, the role of women in history has
been consistently overlooked and undervalued, in
the literature, teaching and study of American
history Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, that
March is designated as "Women's History Month.
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Information taken from various websites
containing Womens History
Month observance